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The folks at Netcraft have released an anti-phishing toolbar. So far it is only for MSIE; hopefully they will release a Firefox extension soon.

Got an e-mail from the team at Port80 Software in San Diego. They have a compression and caching solution for IIS, which although not my development platform of choice, is heavily used in the Fortune 1000, mainly due to the requirement from these firms to contract with a vendor with enterprise support programs.

The link below takes you to their variety of tools that check the cacheability and compressibility (this a word?) of your pages.

Port80 Tools Page

They also have a blog — [200 OK]. Drop by and check them out — there is a very interesting discussion on TIME_WAIT states going on, an oft-forgotten little tweak that is available for high-performance Web servers.

Once it’s shovelled, it is quite beautiful out there.

About 6 inches — ok maybe 4 inches with larger wind-accumulation in our weird yard. Kids had a blast in the snow and the Damnation Hound goes "crackerdog" in snow.

We are all wiped and Samantha is baking for the New Year’s Day house party we are having. We will have food for millions by the end!

Allan Jenkins is moving Desirable Roasted Coffee to Typepad.

Hmmmmm….

As I previously asked, ever get the feeling you have wasted your life?

This feeling was renewed when I actually sat down and read Joi Ito’s bio. I am obviously slated to be one of the proles.

Two kids.

One dog.

A treeful of presents.

45 minutes.

Now to deal with madness that resulted.

From our house to yours, Merry Giftmas.

Just discovered a new player in the Web performance field: SciVisum.

Anyone know anything about them?

As a sidelight to my Web performance job, I spent a lot of time investigating Web compression techniques, tools and devices a while back (I have a library of items I have collected

My studies were purely technical, i.e. what was the bandwidth saving in implementing this technology v. remaining uncompressed. Now I want to work with some companies who have implemented a compression solution recently and get a sense of what the bottom-line impact was.

Some questions I am trying to answer.

• Does compression really save companies money?
• Is the hardware/software implementation cost have an acceptable ROI?
• Have you implemented a compression solution, then retired it? Why?

Not earth-shattering questions, but they will help me better understand the end-to-end business implications of deploying and integrating a compression solution.

If you woul dlike to partcipate, please drop me a line here.

Lexthink! sounds like the kind of event I would want to attend if I worked in a real Professional Services firm.

And to make it "by invitation only"…well, that makes it super sexy!

Thanks to Scoble for the link.

Just spent the last hour assembling a gift for the boys. Samantha was kind enough to stand back and simply read the instructions to me — and they were EXCELLENT directions. There were a few "big daddy hands in in a tight small space to tighten a nut" moments, but beyond that, all the parts were there and clearly marked and in the right quantity.

End-product: one ride on tractor for the boys! Thanks to Grandma and Grandpa (Samantha’s parents) and Great Grandma Isa (my grandmother) for contributing.