Author: spierzchala

Read this commentary.
Could be an interesting mix.

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Then again, someone else says that HP should by Gateway. [here]
This idea has the smell of doom about it.

Received my order of LiveStrong Yellow bracelets on Friday. I am wearing mine right now, despite something that the ZenWife found. She flipped it over, and said “Oh look, Made in China“.

My heart sank. I’m a firm believer in the global economy, but you woulda thunk that Lance Armstrong could have supported some US firm, somewhere. A firm out there somewhere in the US or Canada would have been happy to donate some time or resources for this cause.

Just disappointed, that’s all. Will still wear the bracelet.

I was offline for about 4.5 hours this morning while Comcast “upgraded” part of their infrastructure. Sorry about that.

I am sorry, but this disgusts me. She fires 15,000 people, brings down HP, gets fired, and gets a windfall! Everyone else I know who gets fired or “asked to step down” gets squat. [More here]
These positions entail a high-degree of risk — C-Level execs better start accepting risk as a component of their packages. Why should I join your company and take a chance myself, if you (Mr. CEO, Ms. CFO, etc.) aren’t taking one yourself?
I am already exposed enough, being an “enemy” alien in the US (I know I’m Canadian, but they sure don’t treat me like a neighbour), so what makes me motivated to join a company where I will lose everything and get kicked out of the country, and the CEO makes millions, if the company fails.

Russell Beattie has 400 pending Email messages. [here]
I have heard other bloggers complain of this as well. [here and here and here]
I can’t remember a time when I have received more than 5 Emails in a single day. Most of those are automated server messages telling me when backups are complete, etc.
I’m not complaining. I remember when I worked in Tech Support (before the Ticketing System was installed) that my inbox was always full. But I learned quickly how to delegate, reply succinctly, and be verbose when the situation demanded it.
I know I don’t get 100,000+ visits a day, and have adoring fans and vitriolic enemies, but to have an Email backlog like that is truly astounding.

Hakon Lie, CEO of Opera, nails Bill Gates to the wall using his own claim to support interoperability. [here]

This is a brilliant rant on Microsoft and they’re lack of support (or half-baked attempt to support) Web Standards initiatives. MSIE is a six-year old engine, groaning under the weight of it’s own bloated code. Lightweight “skin” browsers using the MSIE engine can’t, and shouldn’t, save it.

I can’t wait to see MSIE 7, because no one is going to wait for Longhorn. By Longhorn MSIE’s market-share will have dropped below 50%.

Collaborate or die.

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Hakon Lie Apparently said the same thing directly to Scoble. [here]

A more complete commentary here.

Guess that someone has figured out that AdSense will pay big dollars for Asbestos click-throughs. [here]
Guess everyone is getting rich except Halliburton and WR Grace.

I have a bunch of client visits in the Bay Area on March 2-3. Looking forward to being back on my old stomping grounds…Pancho Villa Tacqueria!

Yahoo Search Blog has a great posting on how the Slurp Bot tries to conserve bandwidth by making use of compression and cache-control headers. [here]
As a Web performance fanatic, it is heartening to see that these folks have taken such care, and put such thought into their indexing crawler. They want it to be accurate, but they don’t want to slam your site.
A while back, I had to write a robots.txt file for WebPerformance to keep the MSNBot from stomping the site on a daily basis. This site uses frames and query variables to produce the various performance graphs. Well, the MSNBot was indexing every page and every variation almost daily. Finally, I said go away, just to that crawler. All the others are fine. Maybe MSN Search should take a page from the Yahoo! (Inktomi) Bot development team.