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Traveling Journal Kit – contents
Originally uploaded by junquegrrl.
Ummm…and I thought I had a problem!

Flying JetBlue into Columbus tomorrow to see a client in the Cincinnati are on Thursday.

Not that anyone ever checks in, but if GrabPERF goes poof, it may be a while before I get to it.

Either I have lost my mind or the building has become truly evil.

Today, the air in my office is saturated with the small you can only find in an airplane bathroom.

You all know the smell. It is one of the most unique shared experiences humans can have.

It’s evil. And it’s everywhere.

Well, the irony of this is painful.

I went with 1&1 as the hosting location for my personal domains, including WebPerformance.org.

One of the things that I preach there is the use of compression.

Guess what? 1&1 doesn’t use Web compression on their servers.

Ugh.

Port80 Software is reporting that in their survey of Fortune 1000 Web sites, IIS 6.0 has overtaken Apache as the Web server platform of choice. [here]

My two-cents: I respect the Port80 Software team greatly and love their maniacal devotion to ensuring that IIS users actually make use of the HTTP compression and caching that can so greatly improve Web performance.

That said, they are tied to Microsoft and the IIS platform. I would be curious to see if, scratching below the surface, they were able to determine what the application platform these companies built their mission critical Web applications on. I am open-minded and willing to hear that IIS is winning in that area as well. In my mind, it’s about Web performance tuning, not what you use to get that performance.

That said, I think a critical Web application survey of these same firms would find that many of these companies rely on JSP servers to run their core business processes.

As well, it would be interesting to se, by Fortune 1000 ranking, what the companies are using what server platform.

And…people still use Netscape Enterprise, SunOne, and Domino as production Web servers? YIKES!

As a teenager growing up in a very small logging town in the BC interior, I had what could be politely termed unusual musical tastes, especially for the mainstream, heavy-metal, hair-banging kids I hung around with.

But when I was alone with my walkman, I listened to the real geniuses of 80s rock: REM, Kate Bush, Talking Heads, and…Lindsey Buckingham.

Lindsey Buckingham?? That guy from Fleetwood Mac?

Want a little aural treat? Listen to Go Insane. I literally wore the oxide off my version of the cassette. Crosses so many different boundaries…and realize that you are pretty much hearing Lindsey Buckingham only. Mick Fleetwood makes a couple appearances, but other than that, it is a one-man show.

Do it. I dare you.

Citizens Bank Outage
Originally uploaded by spierzchala.

Some days, your bank needs to get smacked around.
This is one of those times.
What is going on?

Happy Thanksgiving
Originally uploaded by spierzchala.

To all the folks back home, Happy Thanksgiving!
May your turkey be moist, juicy, and, preferably, smoked.

my packing technique is unstoppable

Originally uploaded by ryan christopher.

Sometimes, you have to be in awe.

Today, they christened the Nimitz-class carrier, George H.W. Bush.
Still a few bugs to work out. Seems the navigation system breaks down after it has seen battle, causing it to wander aimlessly, and eventually become lost. It is especially vulnerable to attack by more than one enemy simultaneously, which in some simulations has forced the commander to surrender the vessel.
I also hear that they have started CAD drawings for the Seawolf-class nuclear submarine SSN George W Bush. Not only is it designed to be isolated from and out of contact with the rest of the world for long periods of time, I hear that it will have a new command feature: all fleet orders, battle information, or damage reports are first filtered through the boat’s Media Relations Officer before being passed to the commander.
File Under: Humor.