I just had a look at the list of domains that I own and realize that I want/need to clean house. There are 3 domains that I want to keep, and 9 that I am looking to get rid of.
Domains that I want to unload include:
mod-deflate.net
mod-deflate.org
performancecore.org
performancecorps.org
performancefreaks.org
performanceguru.org
webcaching.org
webcompression.org
webperformance.org
I will be re-positioning content from these sites to my remaining domains today/tonight.
Ok, so it’s not completely new; it’s recycled from our former CTO. And it came with 256MB of RAM. How can a CTO even consider only 256MB of RAM sexy?
Anyway, I ordered 512MB to supplement whatever I find in here, and off I will go.
And if anyone is curious, it is a Dell Inspiron 8500. A step up from the Thinkpad 600X I had been using. And thankfully this is one of the only Dells with a pencil eraser pointer, not just the glide pad. I have NEVER liked glide pads.
Ok, I have spent the last 3 hours tweaking this thing…off to do something resembling work.
I held the NY Times in my hand and was awed by the two-page spread. The people of the Spread Firefox team have outdone themselves.
A PDF of the ad can be downloaded (here and here).
Congratulations everyone.
Doc Searls, in a posting today, comments on a message from Doug Knapper of DoubleClick.
I won’t get into it too much as Doc covers most of the concepts pretty clearly. Suffice to say that the Internet DoubleClick was created for has evolved. I recently said in an e-mail "You are now leaving 2004; Welcome to 1999", and this is how I feel when I talk to some companies, especially about the evolving world of Web performance.
We are all connected. We will talk about everything.
Jeremy Wright of Ensight soon will be doing his Jack Kerouac imitation.
Godspeed, fellow traveller.
I am throwing this into Web performance, because I firmly believe that the use of HTTP as an application platform (commonly referred to as "Web services") will re-invigorate the bandwidth business.
And the fact that we have a blog dedicated to RSS Bandwidth Usage indicates that this will grow if we are not careful.
Compression, use of proper caching and Modified headers are crucial.
Web performance never dies; just gets a new name.
I like this idea: mondo-geekiness.
It seems that Dave Winer shares my paranoid feelings toward Google.
I have been ranting to friends and colleagues for a long-time that I would never work for Google, as it is going to be the Microsoft of the early 21st Century. The rosy glow will wear off as they become more and more omnipresent.
They also hired a VP away from a company I used to work for, Now, that isn’t so bad, except that this gentleman has a great deal of experience that can’t appear on his resume for reasons of National Security.
Great search engine, but that’s all Google will get from me.
If you want to extend your paranoia, go here and watch the movie.
You would kind of expect it, but to do it in such an obvious way is kind of mind-boggling. Comcast started scanning my home IP every 15 minutes on November 24, 2004 for signs of a live Port 80. A simple IPTABLES rule and that’s the end of that.
Now, that move will likely get me in more trouble than having an active Web server on my IP.
Starting at approximately 18:00 EST on December 14, 2004, Sears began blocking all incoming requests from my public IP address, most likely due to the GrabPERF testing I do from here.
How do I know it’s a filter and not a performance issue? Well, when I re-route traffic through one of the many thousands of open proxy servers available, the page comes up instantly. Also, they are doing a smart thing, and not sending an explicit TCP Reset; they are simply routing the TCP SYN requests into the "bit bucket" — a DROP rule for firewall wonks out there.
I have terminated testing of this site. Guess this means my wife can’t access her order information for the oven part — my bad.