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Was in Manhattan yesterday.
No company has enough money to pay me to come to work in Manhattan on a daily basis.

Ok, congrats to Dave Sifry and teh Technorati team. So far today, things look good.

But they are still using broken HTTP to deliver the pages.

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 14:24:16 GMT
Server: Apache
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.11
Set-Cookie: BLAH! BLAH! BLAH!
Set-Cookie: BLAH! BLAH! BLAH!
Pragma: no-cache
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Connection: close

Throwing hardware at a problem solves the short-term issues; solving the long-term issues means optimizing the delivery of content.

Technorati: web performance, HTTP, Technorati
IceRocket: web performance, HTTP, Technorati

I reported that Feedster’s performance had suddenly improved yesterday. [here]
In the aggregated graph, the classic “runaway CPU/memory leak…OOPS!…REBOOT!” performance pattern appears.

Is anyone at Feedster willing to go on the record about this, just for the education of the group?

Technorati: Feedster, Web Performance
IceRocket: Feedster, Web Performance

You know you want to. DO IT! Click the button!

I really like the maximum zoom level! Very detailed!

Technorati: Google, Google Moon
IceRocket: Google, Google Moon

Previous reports of Feedster’s demise are now disproved.

Go team!

Technorati: Feedster, Web Performance

A neighbour is having some renovations done. Today, they poured concrete. And this is what they left behind.

Love it when a plan comes together…

Oh, lookee here. GW Shrub appears to be backtracking. Now Karl has to be convicted before he gets fired.
Mr. President, if he’s convicted, you are most likely going to be down in Crawford, TX having an extended vacation. And the Acting President will most likely be Mr. Hastert. [Presidential Order of Succession]
Hey, I hear San Diego is looking for a new mayor! [here]

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

We caved and bought some window air-conditioners for our house.
It wasn’t this bad last summer.
Ugh.

Disney World Collecting Fingerprints
Really don’t need to say anything more about this, do we?

Technorati: Disneyworld, Disney, Big Brother,

Ok, my grasp of building management is pretty slim. But the question I have is: How hard is it to keep the air-conditioning on mid-sized, three-floor, commercial office building functioning?
Since we moved into the new digs, the a/c has worked properly in our space about 6 hours. Now, for you folks who don;t live in the Northeast US, you may not appreciate why this is important. Let’s just say that Amazon tribes complain about the humidity in this part of the world.
Air-conditioning is crucial up here. I am currently sitting at my desk with my shoes and socks removed. And I have this feeling that I will be removing myself from the office shortly.
Ugh…this sucks.

Technorati: air conditioning, building management