This story should come as no surprise to anyone.
Michael Brown, the embattled head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, approved payments in excess of $31 million in taxpayer money to thousands of Florida residents who were unaffected by Hurricane Frances and three other hurricanes last year in an effort to help President Bush win a majority of votes in that state during his reelection campaign, according to published reports.
Via: raving lunacy
I love Evelyn. And she nails the reason why I have made parts of GrabPERF not free. [here]
Thanks.
Lovely Rita she ain’t.
EV1Servers Hunkers Down for Hurricane Rita
CEO Robert Marsh says the company has more than 10,000 gallons of diesel fuel on site, and has procured an extra generator in case grid power is unavailable for an extended period. “We anticipate that the coming storm will have no impact on our operations,” Marsh said in a message to customers. “However, we are prepared to deal with any eventuality.”
Later today, I will be discussing an offer of support for the GrabPERF System which came in last night.
I know that I have made my need for hardware and financial support for GrabPERF fairly clear over the last couple of days. However, I was impressed and surprised by this offer of sponsorship/support, especially given who the person making the gesture is.
I won’t say reveal any details yet (yes, I am stealing a Buzz Marketing trick from Scoble and Wright), but this is a very exciting development for the GrabPERF System.
Perhaps corporate sponsorship is the model I need to look at for this.
GrabPERF: The PBS/NPR of Web Performance Monitoring.
Yesterday, a JetBlue plane suffered a failure of the front nose-wheel system shortly after take-off.
After 2 hours and an spectacular light show, the Airbus A320 slowed to a perfect stop on a runway at LAX. [here]
The winners? JetBlue. A perfect landing, flight attendants who were calm in-flight, and the ability to watch the whole thing from your seat on the plane via DirectTV.
Buzz Marketing at its most unique — what does this experience say about the quality of JetBlue to you?
UPDATE: Shel Israel watched the whole thing. [here]
The Slacker Manager had a great post about Fast Tracking yourself. [here]
When I read the article, I realized two things:
Some days it doesn’t pay to get out of bed. Now it is time to change the personal marketing campaign.
Over the next few weeks, you will begin to notice a change in GrabPERF. For those who visit us to examine the summary Search and News Index data, this data will continue to be openly published.
However, by the end of October 2005, all of the detail you have come to expect from GrabPERF will no longer be freely available.
Why am I doing this to a great free service? Am I just greedy?
Two years ago, I started this project as an experiment. Using my six years of Web performance experience, I started measuring sites and analyzing data that wasn’t interesting and profitable to my employer. In some short bursts over the last two years, I have sunk at least 3 months of time into developing the graphs, infrastructure, and systems that power GrabPERF
Lately, GrabPERF has attracted the attention of some folks that I truly admire and respect. Folks who value the service and have offered up great suggestions for improving the data that is collected. It is this attention that has lead me to realize that this service is worth something.
There are a number of reasons why I don’t just take off on my own.
I am sure there are more, but that should be enough for this point in my life.
What is my goal by moving the meat of the data into a protected area?
As always, if you have a question or comment, drop me a note.
Google Wifi
I guess “Own All Data” does not fall under “Do No Evil”.
Via: Geek News Central
Bob Wyman of PubSub suggested that I should add in the Google Blogsearch ATOM results to see if it any faster than the HTML results.
The answer: they might be. But they aren’t.
Why not?
Some bright bulb at Google’s Blogsearch team hasn’t enabled HTTP Compression on the XML results.
Boys, go back and check your config file and make sure that the text/xml (maybe even text/*) MIME-type is enabled for compression.
Then we will have a race on our hands.
You know it’s going to be a good day when the DBA comes up to you and says:
“You know those really huge and stupid queries that we always yell at you about? Well, we have some database hardware in place and we thought of you as someone who could stress the system.”
Fast hardware. Fast Drives. And a query headed quickly towards the 2-3 million row count and 10 minutes of running time.
I love abusing hardware.
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