Author: spierzchala

  • Delay: Another Texas Hog Off To Slaughter

    Oooohhh! A surprise!
    DeLay indicted, steps down as majority leader
    I think he should personally be responsible for cleaning up Beaumont, TX.

  • GrabPERF: Measurement Location Outage

    The Gomez measurement location suffered a mental lockup and system hang at approximately 04:00 EDT (08:00 UTC) this morning. Just figured it out, and the system has been restarted.
    Sorry for the lack of data over the last few hours.
    And, if you want to host a GrabPERF measurement location, drop me a line.

  • Armed Hamsters! Run!

    What more can I add on this?

    Via: The ever cute sweetney

  • The Tower Hill Insurance Group Hires Idiots

    Found this charming set of entries in my logs this morning.

    stupid_log_hits-sep272005

    Apparently the Tower Hill Insurance Group (sent you past their flash entry page) hire folks with not much better to do than fill my logs with stupidity all day.

    OrgName:    Tower Hill Insurance Group
    OrgID:      THIG
    Address:    7201 NW 11th Place
    City:       Gainesville
    StateProv:  FL
    PostalCode: 32605
    Country:    USNetRange:   64.57.0.0 - 64.57.15.255
    CIDR:       64.57.0.0/20
    NetName:    THIGHQ1
    NetHandle:  NET-64-57-0-0-1
    Parent:     NET-64-0-0-0-0
    NetType:    Direct Assignment
    NameServer: AUTH10.NS.WCOM.COM
    NameServer: NS1.THIG.COM
    Comment:
    RegDate:    2000-03-20
    Updated:    2001-06-20
    TechHandle: ZT82-ARIN
    TechName:   Tower Hill Insurance Group
    TechPhone:  +1-352-333-1777
    TechEmail:  network@thig.com
    OrgAbuseHandle: NS446-ARIN
    OrgAbuseName:   Services, Network
    OrgAbusePhone:  +1-352-333-1777
    OrgAbuseEmail:  network@thig.com
    OrgNOCHandle: NS446-ARIN
    OrgNOCName:   Services, Network
    OrgNOCPhone:  +1-352-333-1777
    OrgNOCEmail:  network@thig.com
    OrgTechHandle: NS446-ARIN
    OrgTechName:   Services, Network
    OrgTechPhone:  +1-352-333-1777
    OrgTechEmail:  network@thig.com
  • Vlogging Mini-Conference — Monday, October 3, 2005

    For all you local vloggers, there is a vlogging mini-conference coming up in Worcester, MA.

    When: Monday, October 3rd, 6 p.m.
    Who: You and your interested friends
    What: “Meet the Vloggers” Worcester
    Why: To learn more about videoblogging and build community
    Directions to WPI: http://www.wpi.edu/About/Visitors/directions.html
    Campus map to find the Campus Center:
    http://www.wpi.edu/About/Visitors/Images/walkingmap.pdf
    (The Campus Center is #6, behind Alumni Gym (#3) and next to Olin Hall
    (#23). The star is where they are building a new Admissions building and the
    circle in the center of campus is a fountain. These are just mentioned as
    landmarks.)
    Jan McLaughlin, a videoblogger (vlogger) from New York, will be visiting and
    we will be presenting about videoblogging. This will include everything from
    what equipment to use to how to drive traffic to your site, how to build
    community through videoblogging and how to subscribe to news feeds using RSS
    so you can watch other peoples’ videos. This will be a fun, interactive
    presentation. I hope you can make it.

    Thanks to Carl Weaver for the info.

  • This blog no longer supports MSIE

    I have been making some changes to this blog and MSIE continues to gibble the CSS layout.
    Well, too bad for them.
    Get a real browser.
    This blog no longer supports MSIE <= 6.x.

  • Another Reason to Abandon Bloglines

    Meltdowns.
    In the middle of the day.
    <sigh>

  • GrabPERF: Search Index Welcomes Findory

    I have added Findory to the GrabPERF Search Index.
    The current performance is good enough to see them enter the system in the Blog Top 5, now called the Blog Top 6.
    Welcome Findory.

  • GrabPERF: Search Index Weekly Results (Sep 19-25, 2005)

    The weekly GrabPERF Search Index Results are in.
    Week of September 19-25, 2005

    TEST                                 RESULT  SUCCESS  ATTEMPTS
    --------------------------------  ---------  -------  --------
    PubSub - Search                   0.1641161    99.82      7037
    Google - Search                   0.2469639   100.00      7037
    Google Blogsearch (ATOM)- Search  0.5754907    99.89      6201
    Google Blogsearch - Search        0.5844869    99.67      7037
    MSN - Search                      0.6129932    99.99      7036
    Yahoo - Search                    0.6375895    99.94      7031
    eBay - Search                     0.6750205   100.00      7036
    Amazon - Search                   1.0858985    99.95      1832
    Technorati - Search               1.1052304    99.89      7036
    BestBuy.com - Search              1.3558370    99.52      7036
    Newsgator - Search                1.5025822    99.97      7037
    Feedster - Search                 1.5255779    99.52      7036
    BENCHMARK RESULTS                 1.5572177    99.66    106498
    Blogdigger - Search               1.7119017    99.94      7016
    BlogLines - Search                2.6147261    97.24      7036
    IceRocket - Search                3.4088173    99.86      7018
    Blogpulse - Search                6.6481991    99.55      7036
    

    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.


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  • Rojo: I’m following Peter

    Peter Caputa of PC4Media has bailed on Bloglines for rojo. [here]
    I tried it.
    Been nice hanging with you Bloglines. Maybe Diller will throw a few bones your way sometime soon.
    Must be something about Marlborough, MA.