Month: April 2005

Been a very long week. Cameron has been coughing his way through the night with a chronic ailment that no doctor has been able to diagnose, Kinnear has his second ear infection in two weeks (even after SERIOUS antibiotics), and I have been run down with this virus of doom that has been chewing its way through the Northeast over the last month.
This has seriously affected my mood. Not a lot of positive spin happening at work these days, and I haven’t been motivated to take on any new cool projects. It’s almost as though I have reached the “What’s Next?” point.
So, what is next. James Governor asked me what I wanted to do next this morning. I came up with a lame answer, but the more I think about it, the more I realize that I am really not sure what I have left to contribute.
As a Web performance geek, I feel that I have topped out my game. I have spent 6 years do high pressure Web performance analysis, and the problems are the same. How can an industry that is so cutting edge spend 6 years not learning anything?
The one thing that I would love to do is apply my Web performance geekiness to the new internet. Firms such as Flickr, Typepad, Google, etc. need Web performance far more than Internet 1.0 companies did. I would rather work on these new problems than solve the problems of companies that still don’t get Internet 1.0.
So, if there are any Internet 2.0 companies with an Web performance and optimization challenge, I would love to work with you. Resume’s in the right-hand column.

What more do I have to say? The Vision Thing is a great blog and they are looking for your horror stories. [here]
I don’t have any true nightmares, other than vacillating VPs who think they drive strategy, when in fact they only drive us to drink.
I can’t wait to hear about the TPS reports…

YeeHaa! Congrats and welcome to the neighbourhood! [here]
GrabIP has had AfriNIC included as a top-level domain for obtaining WHOIS information for about a month now. But it is nice to see it become official.
And the new AfriNIC site is very smooth!

Om Malik is bouncing this idea around. [here]
As I said to a colleague, the deal can only go ahead if NorTel shows its “Get Out Of Jail Free” card.

Joi Ito, at the ICANN meetings in Brazil, has posted some interesting comments and links regarding the exhaustion of the IPv4 Space. [here]
The growth in private IP Spaces has helped stave off this exhaustion, even through the massive growth in the home broadband and mobile markets. I forsee a compromise coming shortly where IPv6 is used between Network Transit Providers, while IPv4 is reserved exclusively for customer-facing usage.
Just another of my hare-brained ideas…

Damien Katz says:

“Reading code is WAY harder than writing it”
I’ve heard that before, and I read that again today on a discussion board. My experience is the opposite, but then I’ve read a lot of code over the years, my brain is trained to do it. And writing good code isn’t easy, it takes planning, discipline and meticulous attention to details.
But perhaps my world is different from most developers. Do people generally think that’s true?

[here]
I can’t code my way out of a paper bag, but reading well-written code is very easy for me. Can’t explain.

I am impressed that my underpowered Web server survived the onslaught of Gomery-hungry Canadians.
And thank you very much to the folks who made donations to contribute to maintenance and bandwidth costs.
Looking forward to watching the Liberals suffer in the bear pit of their own heritage.

Wired is the latest to flame this thrashing monster in the Google family.
Courtesy of Dave Winer.

My heart bleeds… [here]
…NOT!
This is one company I will not not miss.

More Siebel commentary here.

Being neither Jewish nor Buddhist, I still found these funny.
I add one more to the list…
What is the sound of one hand clapping? And how will you reach enlightenment with hands that dirty?