Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: Canada| Immigration| Life
17 Jul 2007Well folks, I got the good news last night: I am Department of Labor Certified.
This means that I can now actually apply for a Green Card.
Oh yeah, and based on some of the other happenings in the world of US Immigration (here and here), I am part of the group that is either going to [...]
I have been watching Sketches of Frank Gehry in a piecemeal fashion over the last two weeks (kids, in-laws, Christmas, etc.). Despite what you think of Gehry or his buildings, you have to admire the process that a true architect goes through to create a new building idea.
As Bob Geldof says in the film, quoting [...]
Now that I am back on US soil, I have some tips for surviving your trip to London.
GSM Phones. If you are one of the millions in the United States who subscribe to a CDMA service (Verizon, Sprint, etc.), invest a few bucks on eBay and buy a low-end, unlocked, tri-band GSM phone. I have used [...]
One of the lengthy conversations I have had with my wife as I work my way through understanding how my bipolar works and affects my life focused on how I think, and see the world.
I am just now coming to terms with the fact that the filters I process my world through are radically different than [...]
Homeland Stupidity is great and reminding us that the security and intelligence community in the United States is insecure and of questionable intelligence.
The military intelligence unit responsible for spying on Americans had to evacuate its Fort Meade, Md., offices Friday after a six-alarm fire broke out.
A fire broke out shortly after 3 p.m. on the [...]
In: Blogging
18 Aug 2006I was considering the amazing popularity of Wordpress (the hosted service as well ad the application), now the agreed upon champ in the blogging world. I was considering this in light of the fact that when I started blogging in the dark ages of 2004, MoveableType and TypePad were the undisputed champs.
When did the shift [...]
This post has two underlying reasons for existing: 1) to test out the new MSFT Live Writer Beta; and 2) to talk about a great story that GigaOm pointed us to today.
Om Malik pointed out a story in the Seattle Times today that talked about “Broadband in the Boonies”. Having grown up in the boonies [...]
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
2 Aug 2006I was trying yesterday to debug an issue that was appeared to be affecting the PubSub Agent — yes, I re-started it at the request of their sysadmin.
The issue was that it was showing data that appeared to have no relationship with the data appearing from all of the other measurement locations. I tried blocking [...]
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
21 Jul 2006After a few month hiatus, I am starting to code for GrabPERF again. I need to exercise my brain; as I am a hobbyist code mangler, I have to take on a project every now and then to keep my not-so-l33t skillz honed.
The change to the agent is one of efficiency. The current production agent [...]
Thoughts on the China Market
In: Commentary
1 Sep 2008At the The China Vortex, Paul Denlinger discusses how there is no unified “China market”, no monolithic, simplistic, single-minded Goliath that the rest of the world is trying to deal with. While I do not have the depth of on the ground experience that Mr. Denlinger has (I have not yet been blessed with the [...]