Archive for March, 2006

Wil Wheaton uses Metrics!

Friday, March 31st, 2006

First I saw that he used performancing for firefox, even if only briefly, now I see Wil Wheaton uses Performancing Metrics! I don’t know why I get such a kick out of that, lots and lots of people use our services but you know, it’s kinda cool him being a true geek celebrity and all.
Powered [...]

6 months on

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

It’s roughly six months since I started working with the Performancing guys. Very strange, I have to think about what it was like commuting every morning, public transport, working in an office ..
We are doing well too I think, metrics launch has been a big success with thousands more users than I anticipated, the firefox [...]

Blog Weirdness

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006

I apologise for any strange happenings on my blog for a bit, I am writing a Wordpress plugin to work with the Performancing Metrics API for the user guide. Expect the blog to break. A lot.

Wil Wheaton uses PFF!

Thursday, March 16th, 2006

As a Star Trek TNG fan it gives me a bit of a buzz that it looks like WW has tried out our little firefox extension. Wil, if you need any help with it, give me a shout.
WIL WHEATON dot FLOCK
Let’s give performancing a whirl!
I’m trying to decide if performancing is a good [...]

Cool Fan-Made Lightsaber Battle

Thursday, March 16th, 2006

Check this out, pretty cool

Digged

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006

digged
Photo by chrisgarrett.
Our new Performancing Metrics service that went into beta today is currently the top story on Digg and has gathered more than 500 blog signups just today. Makes all that hard work and late nights worth it :O)

Stupid stupid stupid

Saturday, March 11th, 2006

I want to legally download Battlestar Galactica episodes for my iPod. Seems you have to be a USA resident, even though it is a download, you can pay with paypal and the episodes are available all over the web as pirate copies.
So what to do?
Do I need to get someone to buy it for me? [...]

Four Things

Thursday, March 9th, 2006

OMG I thought I had escaped this then I got it via email from three different people all at once. Here it is just to shut you  up :O)
TV Shows I enjoy:

Battlestar Galactica - Best. TV. Show. Evah.
24 - caught it late but thanks to Damian have pretty much caught up
The IT Crowd - [...]

iPod, great hardware dumb software

Sunday, March 5th, 2006

There are lots of good things I could say about the iPod. It’s a lovely, beautiful even, piece of kit.
But I have had mine 24 hours now and I have to say I am dissapointed.

iTunes is fine but it is not ideal for every purpose. Why am I locked in to iTunes for everything?
I have [...]

New iPod - yay!

Saturday, March 4th, 2006

New iPod - yay!

Photo by chrisgarrett.

So I got me an iPod, the black 60gb, with a black iSkin case. It just finished syncing and is now half full.
Just like Damians it looks to be a magnet for fluff and bits but after my Canon 350D this is [...]