Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: Software| Streaming| Technology| The Web
5 Sep 2008In April 2007, I tried out the Joost desktop client.  [More on Joost here and here]
I was underwhlemed by the performance, and the fact that the application completely maxxed out my dual core CPU, my 2G of RAM, and my high-speed home broadband. I do remember thinking at the time that it seemed weird to have [...]
In: Life
22 Aug 2007My system has a daily job to collect and aggregate the IP Blocks distributed by the five registrars into a single database, and then provide high-level WHOIS information for this data. If you want to try this yourself, the interface here.
On an extremely irregular basis, I aggregate the statistics from this data, and present it [...]
A colleague of mine suggested that the Tour de France give up all pretense of being drug free, and embrace the performance-enhancing image it has developed so carefully over the last quarter century.
His idea was to have the racing teams sponsored by the major pharmaceutical firms, pitting one performance-enhancing approach against another, in a competition [...]
In: GrabPERF
18 Apr 2007Thanks to the generosity of Henrik Sjostrand of Netvouz, there is now a measurement location up and running in Gothenburg Sweden.
You will find it listed in the data as Gothenburg Sweden #1.
I have had a few other parties expressing an interest in hosting a measurement agent, but there is always room for more measurement locations! [...]
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
4 Apr 2007This morning, after months of increasing performance issues, and connectivity issues, I have retired the Boston Verizon measurement location. This location hosted 2 measurement agents.
The machines, hosted in my basement, are connected using Verizon FiOS, which has become increasingly flaky over the last couple of months. As well, the machines are 7 year old Pentium [...]
What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Midland
“You have a Midland accent” is just another way of saying “you don’t have an accent.” You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of [...]
In: Life
30 Nov 2006Just went online and thought I would share the Yahoo TV comments so far.
Rushi’s Ramblings
Jason Blogs
Paul Kedrosky
Dave Winer
RowdyData
Oh, and my comments.
Yahoo, please give us an opt-out on this monstrosity. Or better yet, do a complete rollback.
Technorati Tags: Yahoo, Yahoo+TV, Bad+Design, Web+2.0, Bad+upgrade
Looks like Yahoo TV upgraded overnight.
Guess I will get my TV schedule information from other sources now.
DHTML/AJAX Schedule is slow and confusing.
Front page looks like a Flash designer got lucky — Look at all the dancing images!
Complex, complicated, and visually disturbing.
Oh, and no option to downgrade to the original, functional version.
All I want is the [...]
Since August of this year, I have been exploring the insides of my mind in greater detail. If you read this blog regularly, you are pretty likely aware of the fluctuations in my mood, and the rationality of my behaviour.
If you get the chance, find and watch The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive hosted [...]
It took 3 calls, 6 people, and 90 minutes to resolve the problem with Samantha’s new Dimension 3100.
And what was the fix? A secret squirrel hotfix for Media Center.
Still wouldn’t buy another Dell.
Technorati Tags: Dell, Dimension 3100, tv tuner, Windows XP Media Center