Posted on Monday, 31st March 2008 by admin
Resource list for formulating arguments against graphics designers wanting pages that take several minutes to load over dial-up. Submitted without further comment <grrr>:
Analysis tools and why they are important
Thank you for your patience
Speed still matters
All you have is four seconds
Akamai source for previous link
Slashdot discussion on report
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Posted on Tuesday, 25th March 2008 by admin
Sarah and Brinley came home today from the hospital. I took a few minutes and put some photos from the hospital into the photo gallery. Sarah is still a bit sore, but Brinley is doing great. It just didn’t make much sense to us to stay another night.
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Posted on Monday, 24th March 2008 by admin
Brinley Marie Kester was born to my wife Sarah and I early this morning.
7 pounds, 6 ounces
19 inches long
1:16am on 3/24/08
Both are doing fine.
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Posted on Saturday, 22nd March 2008 by admin
Brinley will be here tomorrow. Help me out here Ray!
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Posted on Tuesday, 18th March 2008 by admin
Great. gMail is down on my account with a Temporary Error #502. Just what I needed.
Update #1: …and it is back up. 50 minutes of downtime, that was no fun. Emails are starting to trickle in, looks like nothing was lost. All the same, I enabled POP3 and am keeping a local copy of the [...]
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Posted on Friday, 14th March 2008 by admin
This post was generated on 3.14 at 1:59pm. Happy Pi day!
Yes, I’m a nerd just like Wil. If you haven’t yet, be sure to check out his blog.
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Posted on Tuesday, 11th March 2008 by admin
It’s Tuesday night, and I’ve got a lot of things rolling around in my head. Maybe if I vent some of them, I can get some sleep tonight.
American Idol is coming on in a minute. It has been exciting to see Kristy Lee Cook from Oregon still in the running.
I joined Twitter. Still not sure [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 11th March 2008 by admin
This is definitely a rant against web hosting…
As some of you know, I have servers all over the place. My LAMP stuff is either with Media Temple or hosted on a Liquid Web server. Now here is my problem.
Media Temple will be down this Friday for several hours. This time around we have some warning, [...]
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Posted on Monday, 3rd March 2008 by admin
I’m proud to do my part in supporting free software. I’ve compiled the statistics for the month of February for the CDBurnerXP downloads.
This Month (February 2008)
836,540 requests using 1.22 TB of bandwidth.
Last Month (January 2007)
492,497 requests using 748.20GB of bandwidth.
As always, you can learn more about this great CD burning software at their website, http://cdburnerxp.se.
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Posted on Saturday, 1st March 2008 by admin
Alex has his own MP3 player…
… does that make him an early adopter?
See more pictures of Alex and I doing the dishes in my photo gallery.
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