This morning, the Top/Bottom 20 Dashboard showed this glorious sight when I arrived at work.
All 100% available.
As well, none of the active measurements are showing below 99.5% availability for the last two hours.
Not sure how long this will last, but sometimes you have to celebrate the little things.
Technorati Tags: GrabPERF, Web Performance, Availability, Success Rate, dashboard
Looks like I will be in the Bay Area next week (Mar 20-23). I am giving a full day training on Thursday, and meeting with customers between San Francisco and San Jose before then.
It will be good to get back to the old stomping grounds for a few days.
Most likely I will be arriving Monday, flying out late Thursday night.
UPDATE: My itinerary is
— Arrive: Monday Mar 20 2006
— Day trip to LA: Tuesday Mar 21
— Client meetings: Wednesday Afternoon Mar 22 2006
— All-day Client Training: Thursday Mar 23 2006
— Depart: Red-eye Evening Thursday Mar 23 2006
Technorati Tags: Travel, Bay Area, San Francisco, San Jose, Palo Alto, San Mateo
For a very long time (or so it seemed), the favourite target for abuse in the blog world was TypePad.
Well, I am here to state that in the last 30 days, the TypePad team has really tightened there ship.
Knowing that performance is only one aspect of the equation, I checked the availability for the three TypePad blogs being monitored by GrabPERF. The aggregated success rate for the TypePad measurements fell below 95% in three of the 1,409 hours between 01/15/2006 00:00:00 GMT and 03/14/2006 23:59:59 GMT.
This is a remarkable achievement, and kudos to the TypePad team.
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Pat Robertson is at it again. BBC NEWS | Americas | Top US evangelist targets Islam
Outspoken US Christian evangelical broadcaster Pat Robertson has accused Muslims of planning world domination, and said some were “satanic”.
On his live television programme, The 700 Club, he said radical Islamists were inspired by “demonic power”.
God is banging his head against the wall while Beelzebub is reserving the 11th Circle of Hell just for Pat.
This afternoon, StatCounter showed a marked increase in performance.
Normally I wouldn’t highlight an issue that only lasted an hour, but this appears to have been a very unusual issue that saw the page size decrease to nearly nothing, and performance shoot up to around 45 seconds. This combination usually indicates a back-end application timeout which then presents users with an error message.
StatCounter is in the GrabPERF Site Statistics Index.
Technorati Tags: StatCounter, Web Performance, GrabPERF, Web Metrics, Web Analytics
Finally broke down and bought ZenWife a new computer this morning.
Lowest common deniminator machine from Dell. But her current machine is showing its age and it’s time to make it a computer for the boys. I even have a new hard drive for it — the drive that used to hold the GrabPERF database.
Now maybe I can get a MacBookPro sometime in the next generation.
Yeah right.
I do lead a rich fantasy life…why do you ask?
I arrived this morning and fired up the GrabPERF main page to check out the Top/Bottom Twenty.
This is what greeted me.
CLICK ME!
In the Good News category, every measurement in the Top Twenty had 100% availability.
In the Bad News category, some big names were showing up in the Bottom Twenty with performance and success rate numbers that made me do a double take.
I’m trying to figure out if it’s something I said or something I ate.
Technorati Tags: GrabPERF, Web performance, Technorati, WordPress.com
I got to hold a 3-day old lamb, and watch as ZenWife gave this little creature its first bath.
How cool is that?
I may spend my day shlepping bits and electrons, but there is something very special about watching your friend’s 11 year-old daughter lead a little ball of wool on its first free walk in the field across the road.
Sometimes getting away from it all is worth it.
If you are looking for me, drop me a line. I will be on and off all weekend as we are visiting with friends.
Some of you may know of this frightening shot of Doc Searls mouth.
Well, move over Doc! I just learned at the dentist this morning that my bridge has to come out, as the foundation teeth that hold it in place (it’s a permanent plate) are…well, failing is the polite way to say it.
I have had the bridge for 20 years, so this is is no surprise to me, and one of the reasons that I have avoided seeing a dentist for so long.
I also learned that it could cost up to $25,000 to have the cadillac of replacements.
Or $10,000 if I want a job that will have to be fixed in another 10 years.
Or $1,000 if I don’t mind feeling like my grandparents, putting my teeth in a glass by the bed every night.
Well, you guessed it: damn the self-image! I am going for the removable partial plate.
And how did I get into this mess in the first place? It’s simple: I ran a complex, real-time experiement that clearly demonstrated the force required to remove teeth. The components included:
In order to complete the experiment, the bicycle had to precisely clip the bumper of the truck. This was difficult to perform, as the bicycle was moving at high speed and the truck (which would not be able to see the bicycle until the last minute) had to swerve very precisely in front of the bicycle…and rider.
The MythBusters would have been proud.
So, unlike many Canadian men (and women), I lost my teeth in a cycling accident, not as a result of an on-ice altercation or an attempt to be Gump Worsley.
So, if you meet me in the future, ask me to pop out my teeth.
I might just do it.
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