If you want some very cool dance tunes with a 60’s Bond-ish theme, get DecksAndDrumsAndRockAndRoll by the Propellerheads. Someone at my former company lent this CD to me 3 years ago, and I still fire up BIGGER whenever I need to escape from the evil uber-villian.
Heh.
Ok, History Repeating with Dame Shirley Bassey rocks too.
This is a good read. And most of the salespeople I have encountered would fail the test.
I am tired of Muzak, hits of the 50’s, 60’s and Disco, another tenor super-group, and self-help gurus who make me want to revoke my membership in WGBH.
Do people really watch this crap? Or do you put it on to show us how bad it could be if we don’t give you money?
File Under: WGBH, Public Television, PBS
Just read an article in the dead-tree version of the Web Host Industry Review on Monitoring Performance. Interesting quotes in the article on why it is good for setting SLAs. My former employer is also mentioned.
Fair enough. But, SLAs are only one aspect. How do these solutions help you improve and more effectively manage your Web performance?
No discussion of that. Oh well. Maybe people wil get it eventually.
File Under: Web Performance, Performance Monitoring, performance, Web Hosting
I have 6 3 1 0 (Zero) Gmail Invite(s) to give away.
Thanks to all of you who asked.
Too bad the last one bounced….
File Under: Gmail
Someday, I will get around to posting the OPML of who I read.
Doing a quick inventory of the people I read regularly, it turns out that the vast majority of them are in strategic sales and/or marketing professions. This should surprise a few people, given that I am, for the most part, a techno-dweeb.
The insights and views that these authors bring to me helps rattle my cage and gives me a perspective on the ideas that shape the business forces which affect my day-to-day life. And they also help me think differently (Sorry Apple) about everything I do.
How does this project affect my professional development? Does it contribute to my personal and professional brand? Does it help my company gain additional market share? Does it help us sell more? Does it contribute to our strategic goals, or is it a useful tactical device?
Whenever I work on anything, I consider many more things than I did before. Doing something because you love it isn’t enough anymore.
First was my Mother-In-Law.
Now it’s Tim Bray.
There is four feet of snow on the ground where I live, and back home they have crocuses.
West Coast Employers, my resume is easily accessible in the left-hand column…
I look at my blog logs fairly often — I don’t get 100,000 a day like Eschaton.
Today, I found this:
CustName: Us Gov Fbi
Address: 303 2nd st
City: san francisco
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 94107
Country: US
RegDate: 2000-10-07
Updated: 2000-10-07
They were looking at one of my more popular articles, on someone scanning my IP (I suspect Comcast).
What am I supposed to make of this?
…but two hours is a long-time for the main page of a major hotel chain to be down.
I will not name them.
This is a serious issue, as the error indicates that the Web serving layer cannot talk to the application layer that is creating the dynamic page data. I hate to see companies have this happen, and when it happens in the middle of the business day, you have to wonder if there was something that went very wrong within the infrastructure.
Some online systems used by hotels are also tied into the overall reservations system; if this is true for this company, then no one would be able to access the reservation status of a guest, book a new reservation, etc.
I hope for their sake that it is just in the Web layer.
Ok, this brands as people trend appears to be spiralling out of control. The Vision Thing posted more on a company that asks questions that tags brands as people.
This is a very unusual trend…considering that I worked for a company that is named after a real person.