Author: spierzchala

After a weekend lull, Technorati has returned to normal.

This has been done to death. Hope Sifry et al. get it under control soon.

Technorati: web performance, HTTP, Technorati

CNN has a retrospective of Web 1.0 failures. [here]
These all bring back painful memories.

Met up with David Parmet for lunch in Lexington Centre today.
I even got to touch the infamous Waterfield Cargo Bag. Verdict on the bag: Sexy.
Great stories about Hugh Macleod and Thom Mahon, as well as the madness that is called marketing.
And lunch was…well, it was Bertucci’s.

Technorati: David Parmet, Hugh Macleod, Thom Mahon, Waterfield Cargo

The main page of the GrabPERF tool has a simple table that shows the live performance of a variety of search services, from standard search to Retail Search.
Stop by and take a look!

Technorati: SEO, search, GrabPERF, Web Performance, Search Performance

John Gibson has decided that treason is ok! [here]

Why? Because Valerie Plame … should have been outed by somebody. And if nobody else had the cojones to do it, I’m glad Rove did — if he did do it, and he still says he didn’t.

Hey John, I am no right-wing whacko (as a Canadian, you probably consider me an enemy alien), but which medal do you want to give him? The Fox “News” Meritorious Leaker Star?
Everyone has been predicting that when the right-wing finally swung into action, they would try to divert attention from the real issue: who in the White House leaked the name of, or information that clearly pointed to, the identity of a covert CIA operative?
Via Daily Bubble

Technorati: Karl Rove, KarlRove, Valerie Plame, ValeriePlame, Dick Cheney, White House, CIA

Hey Karl, can you spin this?

If you are the CEO and your underling might have committed a serious crime… would you ask them? Either Rove told Bush the truth and Bush doesn’t care, Rove lied to the President and the President can forgive him, or the President doesn’t care and hasn’t asked. None of those reveal good qualities in our Commander in Chief. This is going to burn him one way or another in the end.

Love it!
Via Daily Bubble

Technorati: Karl Rove, KarlRove, White House

Just a test! Ignore! Ignore!

Surely you remember John Mitchell! Well, he was Attorney-General.
And he went to jail.

© Gary Trudeau — 1973/1974

Michael Feldman reminds us all about this sorry state of affairs.[here]

Technorati: Karl Rove, KarlRove

Chuck Cadman, a man and a politician I highly respected, passed away Saturday. [here]
Chuck was a man who was moved into action by a single, life-changing event: the murder of his son in a random attack by a group of boys in 1992. Propelled onto the national stage, Chuck drove his agenda, and his passion, at everyone and anyone who would listen.
He beat the odds when his party tried to throw him out due to political expediency, winning his last election to the Canadian Parliament standing as an independent. In a previous life, I noted that due to the distribution of seats in the last parliament, Chuck held the deciding vote that could sink or save the Liberal Government.
He used that power on May 19, in the last act of his career, flying to Ottawa, full of chemotherapy poison, to cast his vote with the government, and allow the budget to pass.
I will miss you Chuck.

Technorati: Chuck Cadman, canadian politics, Canada