Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
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: Life| Technology
8 Mar 2006I heard (via TechCrunch and Om Malik and PubSub) that there is some … transition at PubSub.
Now, I have a soft spot in my heart for PubSub, because Bob Wyman was the first person to really notice and appreciate the things I was doing at GrabPERF. I wonder what the future holds for this team.
Frankly, [...]
In: smp
28 Sep 2005Oooohhh! A surprise!
DeLay indicted, steps down as majority leader
I think he should personally be responsible for cleaning up Beaumont, TX.
In: GrabPERF
13 Jul 2005Ensight and Blog Herald both discuss the floundering and thrashing of Technorati.
My take is that they are having a success failure.
© 2005 GrabPERF
This is how long it takes their servers to deliver on a simple search for “new york”. I have discussed at various points throughout the last week that there are some steps that [...]
In: smp
28 Apr 2005The Bullfighters at work.
Press Release
Source: SAP AG
SAP Launches More Than 100 Industry-specific Analytic Applications
Tuesday April 26, 4:00 am ET
SAP(R) Analytics Deliver on Enterprise Services Architecture Commitment COPENHAGEN, Denmark, April 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — SAP AG (NYSE: SAP – News) today unveiled more than 100 industry-specific analytic applications that empower users with innovative new ways to drive [...]
In: smp
9 Apr 2005I love this. [here]
Reason 9, 8, 4, and 3 are the reasons why I am looking for new challenges.
via Conference Calls Unlimited.
In: smp
24 Jan 2005I have had one of those days that leaves me thinking if what I do matters.
I have a great message; I am enthusiastic about my message. But the more I try and push my message, the more mundane the tasks I am handed. I need a new challenge, one where I am not battling a [...]
Link: Yahoo! News – Hockey Night in Canada theme composer launches lawsuit against CBC.
Of course, the true Canadian National Anthem is this…Northwest Passage
Stan Rogers
Chorus:
Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage
To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea;
Tracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage
And make [...]
In: RANTING
5 Nov 2004F-16 Fighter Mistakenly Fires at New Jersey School
The Secretary of Education was not able to be reached for comment, but anonymous sources have informed us that this is the first step in the yet-to-be-announced "Ware one Edukashun".
Web Performance, Part IX: Curse of the Single Metric
In: Commentary| The Web| Web Performance| Web performance concepts| WebPerformance.Org| Work
5 Sep 2008While this post is aimed at Web performance, the curse of the single metric affects our everyday lives in ways that we have become oblivious to.
When you listen to a business report, the stock market indices are an aggregated metric used to represent the performance of a set group of stocks.
When you read about economic indicators, [...]