Author: spierzchala

Now, there is 296MB for of data in the GrabPERF database.
Not a big database, by any stretch of the imagination. Nor is it a complex one. But I was impressed to see this this morning when I did routine maintenance.
And you know what? Most of you only have access to less than 10% of the available data.
I am not hiding it. It’s there. It’s just in the subscription section.
And this database is growing by the minute.
What are you waiting for?

Maybe Going to Work Should be the Exception
Damn straight.
I get more done in my corner desk, in my attic, away from the dysfunctional environment know as the open-plan office.
And a 50 mile-a-day roundtrip commute — oh yeah! We all live for that!
In my case, the motto is simple: It’s the INTERNET, stupid!

The weekly GrabPERF Search Index Results are in.
NOTES:

• Findory blog search added to index
• Google standard search takes top spot with 100% availability

Week of September 26 – October 03, 2005

TEST                                 RESULT  SUCCESS  ATTEMPTS
--------------------------------  ---------  -------  --------
Google - Search                   0.2477162   100.00      7062
PubSub - Search                   0.2538995    99.80      7043
Google Blogsearch (ATOM)- Search  0.5839898    99.90      7064
MSN - Search                      0.6146201    99.99      7063
Yahoo - Search                    0.6154676    99.99      7060
Google Blogsearch - Search        0.6547768    99.92      7064
eBay - Search                     0.6940026   100.00      7058
BestBuy.com - Search              1.0745931    99.91      7056
Technorati - Search               1.1970990    99.92      7062
Findory - Search                  1.2055845    99.91      6725
Amazon - Search                   1.2378869    99.33      1803
Feedster - Search                 1.2583286    99.92      7061
BENCHMARK RESULTS                 1.4132893    99.73    114382
Newsgator - Search                1.5429696    99.29      7062
Blogdigger - Search               1.7054253    99.99      7058
BlogLines - Search                1.7401694    98.99      7061
IceRocket - Search                3.7427026    98.57      7012
Blogpulse - Search                5.5294509    99.72      7062

These results are based on data gathered from two remote measurement locations in North America. Each location takes a measurement approximately once every five minutes.
The measurements are for the base HTML document only. No images or referenced files are included.

Technorati: GrabPERF, Web Performance, Web Performance Measurement, Web Performance Monitoring, search index, SEO
IceRocket: GrabPERF, Web Performance, Web Performance Measurement, Web Performance Monitoring, search index, SEO

We live in a house built in 1920. One of the finest homes of that era still standing in our town.
But, like many homes of that era in the US, some of the main systems have been neglected since the house was built. One of these has been insulation.
Mission accomplished.
It was a dirty, nasty job, but now it is done.
And we used the coolest stuff to do it — Ultra-Touch COTTON Insulation.
No full body hazmat suit required with this stuff. You can put it up with your bare hands.
Warm and comfy, here we come.

…when it’s released. [here]
Now, if I had any sort of pull, Yahoo would have let me know when this relase was going to happen so I could be prepared and begin monitoring immediately.
Eh, what am I thinking? I am a mere flea out here — no chance of any advance heads up from Yahoo. They are too busy catching up to Google, and beating Microsoft off their heels to notice little ol’ us out here.
I will add the standard measurement from Yahoo blog search as soon as I hear about it.

I went to David Allen’s GTD Roadmap seminar here in Boston yesterday. Frankly, it was the best 10 hours of my life in a very long time. Great speaker, re-affirming content, and amazing folks in attendance.
Kudos to the David Allen team for putting together a great day!
You should see my list of Next Actions.

A colleague in Germany forwarded me this interesting Microsoft knowledgebase article.

Internet Explorer May Lose the First 2,048 Bytes of Data That Are Sent Back from a Web Server That Uses HTTP Compression
This appears to only happen if another program registers (Real8 Download is the example given in the KB article) to use some of the more obscure Internet Name-Space handlers with Urlmon.dll. These corner cases include rarely used protocols like HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP.
Also, this only applies if you haven’t bothered to patch your MSIE 6 for like, oh, two years. So, if you have bizarre behaviour with sites that use compression, use that Microsoft Update thingie you may have heard of.

I have a lead on a possible new project. Very exciting, and will build on some of the things I have been developing over the last year or so.
But it will mean changing my dream of a Powerbook to one of a functional Linux laptop.
Any recommendations?

I will be attending the David Allen GTD Roadmap session in Boston tomorrow (September 30, 2005).
Hope to see many Boston GTD freaks there. Should be fun.