Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: smp
3 Oct 2005Ok, huge title for this little gem.
Next Up: Google Office?
Oh…I can feel the pain in Redmond tonight.
Steve, I hope your platinum parachute is packed well. I have a feeling the board may start asking for your head.
And the Massachusetts’ decison to go with OpenOffice/StarOffice looks to be not so weird.
23 miles. Each way.
Every working day, I am supposed to merrily get in my little car and drive 23 miles to work. I know people who drive farther, sacrifice more, with nary a complaint.
Well, now I am complaining. I’m done. It’s over. This gig has run it’s course.
I won’t go into the frustrations I have [...]
In: smp
22 Sep 2005Here are the IP Block and Address allocation by registrar, as well as the number of officially allocated IP Addresses in each country (with 65536 Hosts or more) as of September 22, 2005 00:30 UTC.
This data has been extracted from the GrabIP database
IP REGISTRAR BREAKDOWN
registry NUM_HOSTS NUM_BLOCKS
——– ———- ———-
arin [...]
In: smp
12 Sep 2005Heh.
Count on SkyNews to bring you an unintended laugh.
Via: Fred Wilson
Then do the following:
Turns out that if you type “failure” into Google and hit “I feel lucky” you’ll get the official biography of, well, I don’t want to ruin the suprise.
Heh!
Via: Scoble
In: smp
29 Aug 2005Here are the IP Block and Address allocation by registrar, as well as the number of officially allocated IP Addresses in each country (with 65536 Hosts or more) as of August 29, 2005 00:30 UTC.
This data has been extracted from the GrabIP database
IP REGISTRAR BREAKDOWN
registry NUM_HOSTS NUM_BLOCKS
——– ———- ———-
arin [...]
In: smp
17 Aug 2005Here are the IP Block and Address allocation by registrar, as well as the number of officially allocated IP Addresses in each country (with 65536 Hosts or more) as of August 17, 2005 00:30 UTC.
This data has been extracted from the GrabIP database
IP REGISTRAR BREAKDOWN
registry NUM_HOSTS NUM_BLOCK
——– ———- ———
arin [...]
In: smp
8 Jul 2005You have noted that you are experiencing some performance issues related to high load (here). So I investigated and found that all the servers at the hostname www.technorati.com are responding with HTTP/1.0 headers and are explicitly closing the connections to the clients.
Why?
This will not relieve the performance problems. In fact, doing this may make the [...]
In: smp
7 Jul 2005Most of the time, I leave the morbid Web performance post-mortems to my former employer. However, I had to note that the flash traffic resulting from the explosions in London has effectively crushed the Web sites of the BBC (main site, not the news site), Sky News, and ITN.
This information is purely anecdotal; I am [...]
In: RANTING
5 Jul 2005After 229 years, the United States is fixated on:
Paris Hilton
Britney Spears
George Bush
The Supreme Court
The Ten Commandments
Is this where the United States does a Pat O’Brien, and admits it drank and snorted too much the night before?
Technorati: United States, Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, Supreme Court, Ten Commandments, Pat O’Brien
In: smp
23 May 2005Dr. Blaise Cronin (the name sounds like the nom de plume of an agent provocateur), author of a justly ridiculed and narrow-minded critique of blogging, has re-appeared just in time for the Summer Solstice. [here and here]
This man is an island. And he has lost the perspective that come from spending too much time in [...]