Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: RANTING
25 Mar 2006Dell:
You just missed on a chance to over-deliver to me.
I got my brand-new Dimension E310 on Monday — ok, it’s Samantha’s computer and it has been sitting in a box all week because I have been in San Francisco.
I get home, fire it up, throw in the wireless card and works like a charm.
Except for [...]
In: Uncategorized
9 Mar 2006It was December 1978.
My family had travelled to the big city of Calgary for our annual Christmas shopping expedition.
There were five of us crammed into a hotel room: Mom, Dad, my two younger brothers and me.
In an attempt to bribe us and keep us quiet, they let us watch this travesty against a modern mythology.
Some [...]
This was in my mailbox just now. Huh?!?!?
NEW BBC SERIES
Thinking about having a baby?
We are looking for couples to take part in a new BBC series exploring the science behind getting pregnant and pregnancy. If you are thinking about trying for a baby or have already started trying and would like to find out [...]
Lifehacker has a great list of the airlines that offer WiFi. [here]
They also offer this quote:
BoeingÂ’s Connexion, the wifi service for airplanes, adds 600 to 800 pounds to a plane. With rising fuel costs and U.S. airlines struggling to stay afloat, the system hasnÂ’t yet been adopted on this side of the pond.
This is a [...]
In: smp
25 Sep 2005If you are a user of GrabPERF you have noticed a few changes.
Thanks to the sponsors we have so far:
Netvouz
PubSub
There are a couple of more in the pipeline, and I look forward to working with all of the sponsors.
On this blog and the GrabPERF site, you will see the icon. If you want to [...]
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
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arin [...]
In: smp
22 Sep 2005Yesterday, a JetBlue plane suffered a failure of the front nose-wheel system shortly after take-off.
After 2 hours and an spectacular light show, the Airbus A320 slowed to a perfect stop on a runway at LAX. [here]
The winners? JetBlue. A perfect landing, flight attendants who were calm in-flight, and the ability to watch the whole thing [...]
In: smp
14 Sep 2005People laugh when I say that I am from a part of the world where, in my lifetime, snow has fallen in every month of the year.
Crowsnest Pass still recovering from freak storm
Power still out for 100 after Crowsnest Pass snowfall
Heavy snow cuts power
I don’t make this stuff up.
In: smp
5 Sep 2005<RANT>
George Bush is lame, and a lame duck.
He is a stooge, only in place to ensure that the right-wing packs the Supreme Court for a generation (Think Pelican Brief).
Now, after playing politics with 9/11, Karl Rove is playing politics with Katrina.
WHY?
What does playing politics mean? How many lives does it save?
FEMA failed. DHS failed. Santorum [...]
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 [...]