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Which Multi-Protocol IM Client do you use?
Posted: August 12th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
Tags: adium, client, digsby, IM, pidgin, trillian
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Visual Beauty
As I re-align my processing, I have discovered that the beauty of photographs really holds me. Many of my Bloglines subscriptions are now streams from Flickr. One photographer in particular that I have found captures images of power is Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir. There is something very powerful in her images, and she lives in one of [...]
Posted: September 14th, 2006 under Uncategorized.
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Brad Feld: Used Mercedes Dealer
So, with all the prognosticating about what Brad Feld is going to do next, I think I know what his next gig is.
Used Mercedes Dealer, specializing in cars with slight electrical issues.
Here’s one of the models he has in his Kevlar and Nomex lined showroom.
Ignore the flames.
Technorati Tags: Brad+Feld, Amy+Feld, Mercedes, Fire, Mobius+Ventures, Niall+Kennedy
Posted: September 8th, 2006 under Uncategorized.
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Web Performance, Part VII: Reliability and Consistency
In this series, the focus has been on the basic Web performance concepts, the ones that have dominated the performance management field for the last decade. It’s now time to step beyond these measures, and examine two equally important concepts, ones that allow a company to analyze their Web performance outside the constraints of performance [...]
Posted: September 7th, 2006 under Uncategorized.
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My wife thinks I have a problem
This is what I found when I dumped out my pen/pencil case this morning. Does anyone out there find this unusual? I don’t.
Posted: September 7th, 2006 under Uncategorized.
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Apparently "Canadian" is translated into "Strafe and Kill" in American pilot slang
Canadian soldier killed, others wounded in ‘friendly fire’
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — U.S. warplanes mistakenly strafed Canadian troops fighting Taliban forces in southern Afghanistan, killing one soldier and seriously wounding five on Monday in an operation that NATO claims has also left 200 insurgents dead.
This is not the first “friendly-fire” incident involving US pilots and Canadian [...]
Posted: September 4th, 2006 under Uncategorized.
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Discovering Nick Drake
On a recent musical connect the dots tour through Wikipedia, I stumbled across a reference to Nick Drake. I had first heard of Nick Drake through a review of his work on All Things Considered months ago.
The sound is ephemeral. The sound is haunting. The sound is a lost gem of our time.
It has shocked [...]
Posted: September 2nd, 2006 under Uncategorized.
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Web Performance, Part VI: Benchmarking Your Site
In the last article in this series, the concept of baselining your measurements was discussed. This is vital, in order for you and your organization to be able to identify the particular performance patterns associated with your site.
Now that’s under control, you’re done, right?
Not a chance. Remember that your site is not the only Web [...]
Posted: September 1st, 2006 under Uncategorized.
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Never Eat Alone: The Introvert’s Review
I sat down and finally read my copy of Never Eat Alone, by Keith Ferrazzi. Well, I agonizingly got my way through 80% of the book before I threw it across the room in disgust.
What a load of crap.
There might be a message in the book somewhere. But the book is mostly about Mr. Ferrazzi’s [...]
Posted: August 27th, 2006 under Uncategorized.
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GrabPERF: GZIP Performance Experiment Revisited
A few years ago, I wrote an article on how GZIP compression improved Web performance. Don Marti at the Linux Journal was a great editor, and eventually, the article ended up in the online version of the Magazine.
At the time, I used Ian Holsman’s webperf.org (now renamed ITScales) to capture the data. Now that I [...]
Posted: August 23rd, 2006 under Uncategorized.
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