Optimizing site speed: a case study
One of our clients runs an eCommerce site selling workout videos on behalf of George St.Pierre, the UFC Fighter, called GSPRushfit. The videos sell well,...
Tokyo Police Club & Friends at the Commodore
Thanks to tickets I won from Miss 604, I got to go see Tokyo Police Club, along with Dinosaur Bones & Said the Whale on Saturday night. As part of...
Blast from the Past: Pencilneck Creations Site Mockup
At the turn of the century, I was finishing my degree & running my company as a sideline. Today, digging through my digital archives to find a file...
Measuring Page Load speed with Google Analytics
UPDATE: Google now has a built-in tool for doing this. Simply add the following: _gaq.push(['_trackPageLoadTime']); and hey presto: Page-load-speed...
The Pierley/Redford Personality Test
This Morning, the Very Short List (best newsletter going, IMO) linked to something called the "Pierley/Redford Personality Test". Which is possibly the...
Albums of the year, 2009
Update: Just found this, unpublished, in my drafts. I'm spitting it out, as is, for...posterity? anyway. these were apparently my 3 favourite albums of...
Musical Nostalgia
It's happened. I'm officially old. I'm looking about the contemporary musical landscape, and most bands are coming up short against the bands of my youth....
To my Mum, on International Women's Day
My Mum, Dr. Rosemary Tannock, is one of my heroes. I don't...
Coldfusion Java.lang.ThreadDeath
Of late, we've stared seeing a raft of errors of type "java.lang.theadDeath" on our Coldfusion-based servers. In every case, these errors were generated...
Have Lunch with Me
I often waffle back-and-forth about the value of "soft" networking - where I'm not necessarily wanting something from the other person, or vice versa -...