The site formerly known as GrabPERF has be re-branded (yuck!) as WebPerformance.
The GrabPERF measurement system is a component of the WebPerformance site. There are also libraries of articles on Web performance, caching, and compression.
I will be making more tweaks, as I have this week off from my real job.
Report: Craigslist costing newspapers millions
Well, this is no surpise. It’s fast, cheap and easy-to-use. THe classified industry has changed so substantially as a result of the online world that traditional classifieds almost seem quaint…at least to me.
The CBC has a great list of which countries are giving and how much.
Given the size and scope of the crisis, the response from the world community seems particularly small. Individual contributions will likely grow this number, but give what you can.
Especially in the US. I would like to see private donations in the US vastly exceed government contributions to send a message to the Bush Cabal — the United States has not forgotten the rest of the world.
UPDATE
It seems that the US has decided to kick in another $20M. I gave my $100 to the Canadian Red Cross this afternoon.
The folks at Netcraft have released an anti-phishing toolbar. So far it is only for MSIE; hopefully they will release a Firefox extension soon.
Got an e-mail from the team at Port80 Software in San Diego. They have a compression and caching solution for IIS, which although not my development platform of choice, is heavily used in the Fortune 1000, mainly due to the requirement from these firms to contract with a vendor with enterprise support programs.
The link below takes you to their variety of tools that check the cacheability and compressibility (this a word?) of your pages.
They also have a blog — [200 OK]. Drop by and check them out — there is a very interesting discussion on TIME_WAIT states going on, an oft-forgotten little tweak that is available for high-performance Web servers.
If you want erudite and reasoned analysis of the roots of the current state if US foreign policy, Gwynne Dyer’s Future: Tense would be the book for you. [Funny, Amazon doesn’t seem to carry it.]
It plots the course and rationale for the neo-conservative revolution and its primary objectives: a Pax Americana enforced by special forces and weapons of high technology, and the diminishment (or dissolution) of the UN.
The book makes a strong case that this undertaking will lead to a multi-polar world, with regional blocs of economic-military alliance banded together to mutually defend each other. He draws comparisons to the world prior to the First World War and the spheres of influence in Goerge Orwell’s 1984.
Yummy good read.
May 22: Hmmm, the ideas in the book are pretty much spot on. Not bad for 18 years ago. All he missed was the climate crisis and the water wars.
Once it’s shovelled, it is quite beautiful out there.
About 6 inches — ok maybe 4 inches with larger wind-accumulation in our weird yard. Kids had a blast in the snow and the Damnation Hound goes “crackerdog” in snow.
We are all wiped and ZenWife is baking for the New Year’s Day house party we are having. We will have food for millions by the end!
Allan Jenkins is moving Desirable Roasted Coffee to Typepad.
Another Blogger user fleeing to another service.
Hmmmmm….
I thought everyone would get a kick out of my mirror image browser percentage chart.
What do you see in the picture?
As I previously asked, ever get the feeling you have wasted your life?
This feeling was renewed when I actually sat down and read Joi Ito’s bio. I am obviously slated to be one of the proles.