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My pre-schooler leads me to an Ah-ha moment about location-based services
As much as I enjoy gadgets and playing with new technology, I always find myself a little behind the curve on the latest trends. When blogs first became popular four or five years ago, I was skeptical. I remember the … Continue reading
Comcast, I think it’s time we started seeing other people…
My quest for cutting utility expenses didn’t actually start with AT&T, it started with Comcast. We are at the extreme low end of tv watching in our household. It is pretty rare that we have the energy for more than … Continue reading
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Chrome App Store has potential, but feels like the right product at the wrong time
Having spent some time playing around with Google’s new Chrome web store, I can see what they are going for, but I’m still not sure that there is a need for it. At least not yet. Apple has already proven … Continue reading
Performance Tuning: Visualize your web log performance data using Excel scatter plots
I’ve written previously about how to turn on time-taken values in web logs for IIS, Tomcat, and Apache. Armed with time-taken data, you can identify which are the slow pages in your system and decide where to focus your performance … Continue reading
My mission: cut my AT&T phone bill by 30% (farewell unlimited iPhone data plans!)
Ever since my decision to pay to download two tv shows to my phone that I already had sitting on my TiVo, I’ve been thinking a lot about whether we are getting the full value for the money we are … Continue reading
Hell must have frozen over. My wife is pining to upgrade her iPhone!
In our marriage, I have always been the geek, and Aviva has always been the technophobe. While she is perfectly capable of using ATM’s and gas station pumps, she much prefers to have me do it for her. She knows … Continue reading
Comcast / Level 3 network peering dispute exposes failures in a private market internet
Comcast is threatening to cut off Netflix streaming unless an Internet backbone provider, Level 3, agrees to pay it money. Comcast is quickly turning into the poster boy for Network Neutrality, and in the process, it is highlighting the inefficiencies … Continue reading
Transfer from the TiVo or download on iTunes? Convenience is winning out
Steve Jobs is taking more of my money than is really necessary. He is winning the convenience war, and it may spell longer term trouble for my TiVo. With two kids under the age of three in the house, our … Continue reading
I wonder if Microsoft would pay for my car if I let them personalize my license plate like this person did
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Recent ASP.NET security patch KB2416471 can break CompositeScript elements
Microsoft released a patch (KB2416471) to fix a security vulnerability where a malicious party could use errors generated in the application to decrypt the data used in certain requests. In theory, the fix should not require changes in the application. … Continue reading
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