Kevin Burton of TailRank dropped me a great note last night and asked me to add his site to GrabPERF.
Ouch.
He did have a lot of great ideas about extending GrabPERF capabilities, and I will be putting those up in a post later today.
UPDATE: TailRank came back at around 14:00 GMT (09:00 EST).
Technorati Tags: TailRank, GrabPERF, Web performance
In the past, I have lined up to buy Canadian Olympic team goods from Roots. Good quality, and just generally cool and useful stuff.
This year, HBC (the Hudson’s Bay Company) is doing Canadian Olympic apparel.
This is like grandma dressing a teenager.
I am so disappointed. What was the COC thinking?
Yes, I know. For the fourth time in a week, this is a post with a link to my resume.
But last night, while I was writing an e-mail to someone about the long-term future of GrabPERF, I wrote something that I had to read twice when it came out.
GrabPERF is my resume.
How can a simple Web application be a resume?
In my case, it highlights all of the things that I am interested in:
GrabPERF showcases everything that I have taught myself over the last seven years. And I am proud of it.
So, what do you use for your resume?
Last night, when I came in from work, I turned off the last of the powerful (ok, back in 1999 they were) servers that have been running in my basement for the last 2 years.
When I go down there now, it is eerily quiet. Spooky actually.
It’s weird to know that something you control is 3,000 miles away, and not under your direct control anymore.
I guess this is what it will be like when my kids leave the house.
What more can I say?
Adult ADD Strengths » Top 10 Advantages of ADD in a High Tech Career
I am the person they describe in this article.
And my boredom level is running high…resume link!
Technorati Tags: ADD, ADHD, IT, internet
If you are wondering about the picture at the top of this page (sorry for you folks in RSS readers, gotta head to the blog to see it), I can tell you one thing.
It is real.
[PS: Photo provided by Chris Magnusson.]
I grew up in the shadow if this mountain called, oddly enough, Mount Seven. The Seven is a natural event that only appears in the spring as the snow recedes from the summit.
The other claim to fame for this peak is among paragliders and hang-gliders. If you ask anyone who partakes in these sports if they have ever heard of Mount Seven, their eyes will likely glaze over and drool will run from their mouths,
Why?
Well, the banner doesn’t do the mountain justice from the perspective of a non-powered flight aficianado. This perspective for Google Earth give you a better idea.
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What happens when you are a highly trained consultant in a company that is being managed into a commodity status?
Remember, that resume link is here.
Technorati Tags: Web performance, management, resume
So today, I re-instated blogging on my own hardware and also migrated my b2evolution articles to WordPress 2.0.
It was painless.
Five-minute WordPress install.
Run the b2evolution -> WordPress import script. [here]
Ummm…that’s it.
I will be tweaking the theme over the next few days until I feel it is more me.
Guess I’m just like Ben Metcalfe.
It should come as no surprise that I am a fan of “graphic novels”, known as “comic books” when I was coming of age. One of my favourites is the Dark Knight | Dark Knight Returns series.
In the Dark Knight Returns, the US is run by a cabal with a holographic presidential avatar as their figurehead. In this world, the “Freedom FROM Information Act … makes anything worth knowing secret”.
That quote has stuck with me for most of the last week. The American population is supposed to hang its head and march quietly in line with everyone else, never looking to the side because they might accidentally see their freedoms dying in the ditches.
The United States is Rome, and the babarians (no, not the elephant king, barbarians you fool!) are on the far banks of the Rubicon, with their feet in the water.
Technorati Tags: USA, Bush, Rubicon, autocracy
Ok, this domain will live again!
Thanks to Matt and the WordPress.com crew for putting up with my abuse over the last few months while we determined what was going to happen with the Newest Industry.
Welcome back?