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Technorati Tags: Excess,San francisco,Stupidity
In: RANTING
25 Mar 2006Dell:
You just missed on a chance to over-deliver to me.
I got my brand-new Dimension E310 on Monday — ok, it’s Samantha’s computer and it has been sitting in a box all week because I have been in San Francisco.
I get home, fire it up, throw in the wireless card and works like a charm.
Except for [...]
In: Life
24 Mar 2006I have been sitting at Gate 86 at SFO watching a little drama that gets played out thousands of times a day around the world. I call it the Hierarchy of Assumed Privilege.
The direct flight from SFO to Boston (the one I am not on) was full; nay, bursting.
Yet there were executive-types who were ANGRY [...]
In: Life
20 Mar 2006I land at SFO.
I think we landed on the runway; hard to tell the difference between the ocean and the runway.
The sky over the city looks menacing from Burlingame.
Time to hunker down and do some work.
Technorati Tags: SFO, San Francisco, Bay Area, Burlingame
In: Life
15 Mar 2006Looks like I will be in the Bay Area next week (Mar 20-23). I am giving a full day training on Thursday, and meeting with customers between San Francisco and San Jose before then.
It will be good to get back to the old stomping grounds for a few days.
Most likely I will be arriving Monday, [...]
In: Life
7 Mar 2006Old is such a relative thing.
Where I grew up, in the British Columbia Interior, an old building is one that dates from between 1860 and 1900.
In the San Francisco Bay Area, you might see some buildings from the 1840s, maybe some Spanish ones that are older.
In Massachussetts/New England, there are some buildings that date from [...]
In: GrabPERF
18 Feb 2006Thanks to the efforts of Paul Querna, GrabPERF is the proud receiver of data from the San Francisco Ask.com measurement agent.
Thanks to the powers that be at Ask.com, and I look forward to seeing lots of good data in the future!
Technorati Tags: GrabPERF, Web Performance, Ask, Ask.com, Paul Querna
In: GrabPERF| Life| Technology
10 Feb 2006So, the move to the new datacenter is complete. We finished off the final changes last night | early this morning, and the Web server and database are now running on a big fat pipe at 365 Main in downtown San Francisco.
How did I spring for new hardware and hot hosting? Well, I had a [...]
In: Life
31 Oct 2005A very insightful article on the clustering of wealth and innovation around the world, riffing on a theme by Friedman. [here]
I firmly believe this concept. I have lived three cluster areas — Vancouver-Victoria, BC; San Francisco – San Jose Metro; Boston Metro — and the level of innovation and original thinking here is unparalleled. When [...]