Month: August 2005

If creationists think that the world was created only about 5,000 years ago, then they should not use oil. Why not? Because the ancient forests that create oil cannot exist in their world view.
This means that any electricty produced from coal, oil or natural gas also does not exist for creationists.
Maybe this is why they don’t believe that we are greenhousing our planet…
Just a thought…

Technorati: creationism, oil, natural gas, coal
IceRocket: creationism, oil, natural gas, coal

Ping-O-Matic. Weblogs.com.
Two of the sites that have seen surges in Web traffic recently.
My unsubstantiated theory is that as summer ends, Web traffic is seeing its usual surge, amplified by the new interest in blogs and Web 2.0 properties.
For the small companies who have effectively had the summer off, it’s time to re-adjust your capacity-planning estimates…upward.
Why? Rising oil prices will reduce travel. Disenchantment with movies will reduce going out. Gourmet take-home will reduce restaurant visitation. And increasing broadband access will increase demand for online services.
Be afraid…and get ready for more traffic. Lots more traffic.
Have you optimized your site for maximum performance yet?

Technorati: Web Performance, Capacity Planning, Web 2.0, SEO, traffic analysis
IceRocket: Web Performance, Capacity Planning, Web 2.0, SEO, traffic analysis

Bring. It. On.
Walken 2008.
More Cowbell. Now.
Update: This is a hoax…but one I fully endorse.

Technorati: walken2008, Christopher Walken
IceRocket: walken2008, Christopher Walken

Please set minds to Auto-Filter

#### Start Rant
I have an online resume. I can get you it in several forms.
However, if you are hiring me because of what you see in that piece of paper…
I DON’T WANT TO WORK FOR YOUR COMPANY!
Lisa Haneberg posted a great article on this today.
The problem with me and my resume is that there is no way to capture what I can do or what I know on a piece of paper. I have a non-linear mind and am a technical person with an artistic temperment. I do not fit into your neat little corporate boxes. I am not org-chart friendly.
I flame most recruiters, because they haven’t taken the time to note that (and this is on all of my resumes, no matter where I post them):

1. I am a Canadian living in the US and working on an H1-B
2. I am ONLY entertaining offers from companies on the West Coast

Most recruiters are stupid, at least in my mind. They are desperately clinging to a niche where, like Wile E. Coyote, the ground on which they stand has evaporated.
The great thig is that I know the companies that I want to work for. But I also know that these companies never even look at me because their HR “process” is designed to weed out independent-minded, intelligent, experienced, non-linear thinkers. They want young, fresh mind-slaves.
Am I bitter and angry? Yeah. Why? Because every manager I have had has said the same thing to me, repeatedly: “You are great and your knowledge is astounding, but we don’t know how to use you effectively because you don’t fit into an org-chart box”.
You know what not fitting into an org-chart box has done to me career? Limited my exposure to clients, locked me out of the strategic decision-making process, prevented me from assisting with infrastructure design and assessment, and seen career-advancement promise after promise fall by the wayside.
I am looking for a company who wants me and will let me have business cards with NO TITLE ON THEM.
I am what I know, not what you, the company, tell people I do.
#### End rant

Technorati: resume, human resources, Management, Organization Development, middle management, headhunters, recruiters
IceRocket: resume, human resources, Management, Organization Development, middle management, headhunters, recruiters

So, I took advantage of the T-Mobile Upgrade a year program yesterday and went for the Motorola V188.[here and here]

Should be here next week. And no, I have no clue how Julia Roberts got my cell number.

Technorati: tmobile, v188
Technorati: tmobile, v188

If you chose your people well, and define the problem clearly, they will solve the problem.
Your job, Mr./Ms./Mrs. Manager: STAY THE HELL OUT OF THE WAY.
Oh, and Rick says it far more eloquently than I can.[here]

Technorati: management, vc, hiring
IceRocket: management, vc, hiring

Today, by special delivery, I got notice that FIOS is available at my house.
I called Comcast and asked how they were going to match this offer. They offered me $29.95/mo. for 6 months.
Now, because of my unique situation (i.e., requiring a semi-permamnent IP address to allow people to access my servers), I may be stuck with Comcast, because Verizon uses the much smarter random release on DHCP addresses.
But for 97% of the Web-surfing public, FIOS will be the cat’s meow. And that the the flow of customers from Comcast will become a flood. A cable company that continues to think like a cable company in this new world will look like Bethlehem Steel in 3 years…or less.
I have a good friend who is a senior network engineer at Comcast; I hope he is looking for a new job.

Technorati: Comcast, FIOS
IceRocket: Comcast, FIOS

I started gathering data on a number of large MSM Web sites, and created an index, similar to what I created for Search sites.
Check it out!
GrabPERF News Index

Technorati: GrabPERF, Web Performance, Web Performance Measurement, Web Performance Monitoring, msm, mainstream media
IceRocket: GrabPERF, Web Performance, Web Performance Measurement, Web Performance Monitoring, msm, mainstream media