Seth Godin pointed this out. [here]

They will probably start legal action against me for posting this.

Tags: blog, customer service, HTML, HTTP, IM, it, media, Om, posting, pr

Good news: Blogging is good for the brain! [here]

Original blog posting here.

Of course, the way I have been feeling lately…I think I have hit the wall.

Tags: blog, Blogging, HTML, HTTP, it, Om, posting

Yes, I am still here. I have been involved with the kids and family this weekend, so posting was light.

I am travelling to the Bay Area on Wednesday and Thursday of next week, and have some time on Thursday night, if any fellow bloggers want to grab a brew somewhere on the peninsula (I am staying in the San Mateo/Burlingame area).

Tags: blog, IM, it, Om, posting

The andrewsaluk.com is now a live server hawking online casino gaming. Oh, and it appears that the domain has been relocated to China; was previously in South Korea.

Looks like these morons are slamming a lot of sites. Thankfullt b2evolution has very effective anti-spam tools.

Someone else is posting on this. [here]

Oh look! Someone has come up with a nice .htaccess hack to nuke these bozos! [here]

Tags: .htaccess, app, bbc, China, evolution, HTTP, IE, IP, it, KOREA, live, Om, One, online, PHP, posting, pr, server, spam

Just to keep you up to date on what’s going on in my life…

I will out of town for most of the next two weeks, so you will likely see postings at odd times and in aggregated chunks as I get caught up from performing my real job.

Had the first of a series of meetings (concall today) with customers asking them key and probing questions about what they want to achieve. It is interesting to re-visit with some of these clients and refresh my memory of what they need to achieve Web performance excellence. I have been locked up in my office all winter, and need to re-gain some perspective on our overall purpose and mission.

After this, I have to hunker down and attack the incoming flood of projects. A component of this will be learning the ins and out of Visual Interdev so that we can generate custom reports. Should be a lot of fun, as it has been a while since I learned a new programming language.

Off to a meeting…

Tags: blog, client, customers, IE, IM, it, LAN, Om, One, performance, posting, pr, web, Web Performance

Site-9 has more comments on the faux Ogilvy + Mather email that he received. [here]

Apparently, mine was one of the 30 blogs that linked in to his article. [here]

The quote at the end of the new posting, as seen in Fortuune, leads one to see how O+M will talk their way out of this debacle.

Tags: ads, app, blog, EAD, HTML, HTTP, it, Om, One, PHP, posting, pr

Yahoo Search Blog has a great posting on how the Slurp Bot tries to conserve bandwidth by making use of compression and cache-control headers. [here]

As a Web performance fanatic, it is heartening to see that these folks have taken such care, and put such thought into their indexing crawler. They want it to be accurate, but they don’t want to slam your site.

A while back, I had to write a robots.txt file for WebPerformance to keep the MSNBot from stomping the site on a daily basis. This site uses frames and query variables to produce the various performance graphs. Well, the MSNBot was indexing every page and every variation almost daily. Finally, I said go away, just to that crawler. All the others are fine. Maybe MSN Search should take a page from the Yahoo! (Inktomi) Bot development team.

Tags: bandwidth, blog, cache-control, compress, compression, control, cool, EAD, HTML, HTTP, IE, it, Om, performance, posting, pr, search, the other, variation, web, Web Performance, WebPerformance.Org, Yahoo!

…so posting will be lighter than today. Have a few things to clean up….ugh!

Tags: Om, posting

Kinnear last week.

Samantha Tuesday-Wednesday of this week.

Cameron today.

And now…I have it…posting might be light for a while.

Tags: hits, it, Om, posting

Someday, I will get around to posting the OPML of who I read.

Doing a quick inventory of the people I read regularly, it turns out that the vast majority of them are in strategic sales and/or marketing professions. This should surprise a few people, given that I am, for the most part, a techno-dweeb.

The insights and views that these authors bring to me helps rattle my cage and gives me a perspective on the ideas that shape the business forces which affect my day-to-day life. And they also help me think differently (Sorry Apple) about everything I do.

How does this project affect my professional development? Does it contribute to my personal and professional brand? Does it help my company gain additional market share? Does it help us sell more? Does it contribute to our strategic goals, or is it a useful tactical device?

Whenever I work on anything, I consider many more things than I did before. Doing something because you love it isn’t enough anymore.

Tags: app, Apple, brand, business, EAD, HTTP, IE, it, marketing, Om, One, personal, posting, pr, views