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Remember that little piece of tracking code I cranked out on Friday afternoon (December 17, 2004)? The real-time graph of the hit-count is up. Not a huge number, but it just shows that with a little PHP and a MySQL database, you can achieve a lot in very little time.

Expecting snow overnight…like in the 3-7 inches variety. Very cool.

However, as Samantha pointed out, she has yet to have a white Christmas in her life!

Now, surely you are wondering how a woman who is Canadian cannot have had a white Christmas. Well, her entire life has been spent on the Wet Coast, so she has never seen snow on that special day.

Last year, like the Red Sox, we thought it was a sure thing. I mean, Christmas in Massachusetts? Come on, how could you miss?

On Christmas Day, I was wearing shorts and the boys were riding their bikes. It was 55F and sunny. Ugh.

So, the bribe of snow tonight looks potentially like what we need…until I read that it will be 45F and rain later in the week.

Here’s hoping for next year…?

About bloody time: CBC Gets RSS.

Thanks to Dave Winer.

Why is the Phoenix Airport called the Sky Harbor? Last time I checked…well, you know where I am going.

Also just noticed that the Typepad editor limits you to 256 Web-safe font colors (16 of which are black!).

I just had a look at the list of domains that I own and realize that I want/need to clean house. There are 3 domains that I want to keep, and 9 that I am looking to get rid of.

Domains that I want to unload include:

mod-deflate.net
mod-deflate.org
performancecore.org
performancecorps.org
performancefreaks.org
performanceguru.org
webcaching.org
webcompression.org
webperformance.org

I will be re-positioning content from these sites to my remaining domains today/tonight.

Ok, so it’s not completely new; it’s recycled from our former CTO. And it came with 256MB of RAM. How can a CTO even consider only 256MB of RAM sexy?

Anyway, I ordered 512MB to supplement whatever I find in here, and off I will go.

And if anyone is curious, it is a Dell Inspiron 8500. A step up from the Thinkpad 600X I had been using. And thankfully this is one of the only Dells with a pencil eraser pointer, not just the glide pad. I have NEVER liked glide pads.

Ok, I have spent the last 3 hours tweaking this thing…off to do something resembling work.

I held the NY Times in my hand and was awed by the two-page spread. The people of the Spread Firefox team have outdone themselves.

A PDF of the ad can be downloaded (here and here).

Congratulations everyone.

Doc Searls, in a posting today, comments on a message from Doug Knapper of DoubleClick.

I won’t get into it too much as Doc covers most of the concepts pretty clearly. Suffice to say that the Internet DoubleClick was created for has evolved. I recently said in an e-mail "You are now leaving 2004; Welcome to 1999", and this is how I feel when I talk to some companies, especially about the evolving world of Web performance.

We are all connected. We will talk about everything.

Jeremy Wright of Ensight soon will be doing his Jack Kerouac imitation.

Godspeed, fellow traveller.

I am throwing this into Web performance, because I firmly believe that the use of HTTP as an application platform (commonly referred to as "Web services") will re-invigorate the bandwidth business.

And the fact that we have a blog dedicated to RSS Bandwidth Usage indicates that this will grow if we are not careful.

Compression, use of proper caching and Modified headers are crucial.

Web performance never dies; just gets a new name.