Posts Tagged ‘the other

As many of you know, I inherited an old, very well-used T-Mobile Treo 600 a couple of weeks ago. Well, I have become acutely aware of people who have them, much like suddenly noticing pregnant women when your wife is pregnant.
Today, I am on-site at a large client in the Philadelphia area, and the office [...]

I just had a look at the list of domains that I own and realize thatI want/need to clean house. There are 3 domains that I want to keep,and 9 that I am looking to get rid of.

Domains that I want to unload include:

mod-deflate.net
mod-deflate.org
performancecore.org
performancecorps.org
performancefreaks.org
performanceguru.org
performanceindex.org
searchindex.org
webcaching.org
webcompression.org
webperformance.org

Currently asking $2,000 each for webperformance.org, webcaching.org, searchindex.org, performanceindex.org, and webcompression.org, and [...]

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In: Life

10 Feb 2006

If you are wondering about the picture at the top of this page (sorry for you folks in RSS readers, gotta head to the blog to see it), I can tell you one thing.
It is real.
[PS: Photo provided by Chris Magnusson.]
I grew up in the shadow if this mountain called, oddly enough, Mount Seven. The [...]

Ok, if there is an issue with GrabPERF or any of the other services on this server this weekend, it is unlikely that I will be able to fix it.
We are going to see friends in Maine, and we aren’t even sure if our mobile phones will work.
I will try and check mail once a [...]

The second measurement agent is now up and running on Ubuntu!
And the happy news is that it is reporting CONNECTION ERRORS!
Well, ok, not so good news for those of you who are getting them. On the other hand, a gap in the measurement data should indicate a serious problem now.

Blacklisted: Blogspot.com

In: smp

17 Oct 2005

I have permanently blacklisted all of people making comments from blogspot.com — it appears that Google’s little nightmare is getting worse.
Thankfully b2evolution makes that easy. I hate to think about what the the other blogging platforms will have to go through to make this happen.
PS: This is in response to Chris Pirillo’s well-timed rant on [...]

I have flamed two recruiters this week.
Why? Because they never bothered to read the resume.
One wanted me to be a technical support rep. The other wanted me to be an Oracle DBA/Developer.
One recruiter saw me copy the top executives at his firm with this lack of intelligence. This had a very positive result: I was [...]

Over the last two days I have been trying to optimize the performance of the Index Charts/Graphs. I think I have found the fix, and you should see results for these charts in the sub 1-second range.
To explain how this works, I have to open up the GrabPERF data model and let you folks peer [...]

Effective immediately, The Newest Industry is on hiatus.
Most readers are not aware that for most of my life, I have fought a constant battle with depression. Thankfully, my symptoms can be effectively moderated and controlled through medication…most of the time.
Right now, for a variety of reasons I am not comfortable getting into, I am [...]

To add to my increasing summer of discontent, I had to replace the other two tires on the purple bus today.
And Apple releases two new iBooks. [here]

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Stephen Pierzchala is one of a 10-year veteran of the Web performance field who also writes on topics that interest his non-linear world-view.

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