Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: smp
16 Jun 2005Ok, this is just weird. Airbus is going to do cold-weather testing of the Airbus A380 in Iqaluit, Nunavut. [here]
Hmmm…this aerodynamic freak is coming to the Canadian Arctic. I’m not sure this is a good thing.
Technorati: Nunavut, Canada, A380, Airbus
In: smp
25 Apr 2005Doc is trying to show the world that he should be in a piano band at a New Orleans brothel. [here]
The weird thing is that despite trailing Doc by 20 years, and never having a cavity, I only have 20 of my own teeth left.
Drop testing teeth at 20 mph on asphalt is not recommended [...]
In: smp
8 Feb 2005Why, oh why, does Windows suck?
I wish I knew…
Off to install my 87 new critical security patches…still haven’t gotten an offer from anyone to ship me a WiFi enabled Linux Laptop, or a PowerBook for testing and “paid” blogging purposes…
In: Life
2 Feb 2005Ouch!
I have never dropped a laptop, but I have caught my eldest prying the keys off a Toshiba Tecra 8100. Ever had to put the keys back on a laptop? When you are ham-handed like I am…it was a two-hour curse-fest with Samantha laughing at me, scolding the boy and grimacing at my language [...]
In: smp
1 Feb 2005In an interview with InfoDesign, Jared Spool talks about Web Design.
The TakeAway:
I learned quickly that business executives didn’t care about usability testing or information design. Explaining the importance of these areas didn’t get us any more work. Instead, when we’re in front of executives, we quickly learned to talk about only five things:
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In: smp
23 Jan 2005Brian Marick has a great article on testers.
I am one of those who is a tester. And frankly, I agree with everything he says.
In: smp
20 Jan 2005Ok, as Tim Bray does, I am here to expose the stupid with the great in all the code I write.
Mine was even more brain-damaged. I generate a series of aggregate Web Log stats,after filtering out bots/crawlers/images/css/robots.txt/etc., to generate meaningful information on the visitors to my sites.
However, the aggregate stats were not meshing with the [...]
In: GrabPERF
15 Dec 2004Starting at approximately 18:00 EST on December 14, 2004, Sears began blocking all incoming requests from my public IP address, most likely due to the GrabPERF testing I do from here.
How do I know it’s a filter and not a performance issue? Well, when I re-route traffic through one of the many thousands of open [...]
In: smp
7 Dec 2004Ok, I am testing the Sauce Reader and Blog posting tool. Going on the road and want to be able to read things offline on the plane tomorrow.
If anyone else has any offline reader/composer tools for blogs that they can suggest, it would be appreciated.
That didn’t last long…it just felt clunky.