Author: spierzchala

Mailbox is getting a number of these requests on a daily basis, most are from automated trawling that I mark as spam.
A few haven’t bother to check that I am Canadian.
A few actually want to talk.
Anyone else seeing activity a la 1999 recently?
Hank Stringer has, of course…

I am in a Sales Meeting for the next three days, so postings will be light until the evenings.

The Head Lemur and I agree: FeedDemon makes your feeds more demonic! Get Demonized! Get FeedDemon!

Either FeedDemon has developed a serious problem, or my network route the TypePad Blog servers (not their Marketing site) is broken because I cannot get any TypePad blogs right now.
Anyone else having the same issue? Was this a planned maintenance?

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Never mind, they’re back.

I love this. [here]
Reason 9, 8, 4, and 3 are the reasons why I am looking for new challenges.
via Conference Calls Unlimited.

Yes, I have gone with the crazy basic WP-like theme on the blog.
There are some issues with the AdSense locations, and I will need to tweak that a bit, but I like it!
Comments Welcome.

Been a very long week. HeirSon has been coughing his way through the night with a chronic ailment that no doctor has been able to diagnose, SpareSon 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.