Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: GSM| RANTING| Software| Technology
31 Oct 2007We got Samantha a new T-Mobile cell a few weeks back. But it came with an unwanted and expensive feature: every morning at 11:00, she receives a weather update from Windows Live Alerts.
Apparently the previous owner of the number had these alerts programmed. And of course, there is no way to shut them off because [...]
I am writing up a client presentation for next week, and I just realized just how flawed Internet Explorer is. Microsoft claims that the browser is standards compliant. Yet it still doesn’t support HTTP pipelining.
And the frustrating part? They won’t tell us why. I have my suspicions, which include TCP stack issues and a flawed [...]
In: RANTING| Software| Technology| Work
10 Mar 2007So, it was time to re-build my laptop — 4 months of cruft gets in the way and really slows things down. And since the company I work for has an Microsoft Enterprise License that includes Vista, I took the plunge.
So far, it’s ok. Nothing that really rocks my world. And one serious hindrance: It [...]
In: Photos
30 Jan 2007Samantha says this one is the best one so far.
What do you think?
Technorati tags: GIMP, Flickr, photo manipulation, colocasia, lace, window
In: Life
21 Jan 2007For those of you who are addicted to the mayhem and destruction of Mythbusters, Buster is a beloved, if unfortunate, member of the cast.
Well, Buster may be out of a job.
Apparently, a guy in Minneapolis managed to prove not one, but two myths in a single 10-12 second period [here]. Namely:
A person can break through [...]
After a few months using the Microsoft Live Writer, I am giving the Performancing Blogging Extension for Firefox another try. Just seems more natural that since I use Firefox as my daily work platform, I should use it for everything.
Technorati Tags: Microsoft, Live Writer, Performancing
I can already tell that today will be a write-off. I am vibrating, I can’t concentrate, and my new boss starts today.
I felt warm and fuzzy this morning, which is now a symptom I recognise of the ride up the cycle. I didn’t want to stay in be; I wanted to get out of bed [...]
I am ot sure why these happy discoveries have not made their way south of the border, but here in Canada, some of the Starbucks’ stores have drive-thru windows.
However, I can tell you that the one we had coffee at in Westbank, BC showed that the drive-thru folks got preference over the people in the [...]
In: Web Performance
14 Jun 2006I am doing a brief study on something I have noticed in a couple of sites running Windows 2000 Server and IIS/5.0, most notably with server-based SSL in place. In order to verify my findings, I need a larger subset of sites/servers to gather data from.
If you have such a site, please leave me a [...]
Browsers: The Window and The Firehose
In: Commentary| Technology
3 Sep 2008Three years ago, in a post on this blog, I stated that I thought that the browser was becoming less important as more data moved into streams of data through RSS and aggregated feeds, as well as a raft of other consumer-oriented Web services.
This position was based on the assumption that the endpoint, in the [...]