Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: Life
3 Feb 2008I don’t often (ever) talk about my musical taste. It is unremarkable for the most part, with flights into madness and impulsiveness.
Lately, I have discovered Icelandic music. Mainly Sigur Ros, Mum, Apparat Organ Quartet, Aniima, and (of course) Bjork. Apparently Icelandic music is all the rage, with people trying to understand how such a small [...]
In: Software| Technology| Web Performance| WebPerformance.Org| Work
6 Jun 2007Dear Apache Software Foundation, and the developers of the Apache Web server:
I would like to thank you for developing a great product. I rely on it daily to host my own sites, and a large number of people on the Internet seem to share my love of this software.
However, it appears that you seem to [...]
In: Blogging| GrabPERF| RANTING| Web Performance
16 Jan 2007It’s always funny when somewhat tech-savvy folks purposely make their bandwidth bills higher than they need to be.
Here’s TechCrunch’s HTTP header response.
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:02:23 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) DAV/2 SVN/1.4.2 PHP/5.2.0-8 mod_ssl/2.2.3 OpenSSL/0.9.8c
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.0-8
X-Pingback: http://www.techcrunch.com/xmlrpc.php
Status: 200 OK
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html; charset=”UTF-8″
Port80 Software’s Compression Checker gives us some idea how much bandwidth Mr. [...]
In: Technology
26 Sep 2006I was futzing around with my WRT54G(L) last night and did something wrong. I thought I had bricked the damn thing. Much cursing and swearing ensued as I put a BEFSX41 on the front-end of the network (I have three of these; don’t ask why) and wandered upstairs with the lump of black and blue [...]
In: Life
15 Sep 2006Over the last 12 hours, we have had some pretty remarkable “wildlife” scenes in our yard.
Last night, as I took Wiggles out for her walk, she found a cat…a striped, stinky cat.
Skunk 1, Wiggles 0.
We suspect that it had been hiding under our back porch. We are taking steps to encourage it to find new [...]
In: Blogging
30 Jul 2006In the last three days I have gone from Wordpress 2.0.2 to 2.0.3, then from 2.0.3 to 2.0.4. All went seamlessly, and the blog working as expected.
Upgrades in both cases took less than 5 minutes.
I love Wordpress. I now know why Moveable Type is tanking so hard.
Technorati Tags: Wordpress, upgrades, 2.0.4
In: Web Performance
14 Jun 2006I am doing a brief study on something I have noticed in a couple of sites running Windows 2000 Server and IIS/5.0, most notably with server-based SSL in place. In order to verify my findings, I need a larger subset of sites/servers to gather data from.
If you have such a site, please leave me a [...]
In: Life
17 May 2006I am at Heathrow, and my 20:10 BST flight has become a 22:55 BST flight, meaning I will get into Hamburg at around 01:00 CEST tomorrow.
Gives me some time to write my final impressions of London.
London is a very busy world city. For a small town boy, I think I did remarkably well in it. [...]
In: RANTING
26 May 2005There appears to be a meme beating its way around the chaos we call the blogosphere, that of culling out the partial text feeds in favour of the full text versions.
I usually check this out when I decide to subscribe. Bloglines will occasionally offer up a selection of feeds to choose from, and if given [...]