Saturday, January 08, 2000

Last night we ran a second test to see how EditThisPage.Com is doing. The result is awesome. It's 3.6 times faster at serving pages than the one we were running a couple of days ago. The test factors out Internet performance since it was running on our LAN, but otherwise it simulates a user visiting a random home page, once a minute.

suites.miniServerMonitor launches a thread in the background that reads a web page once a minute. This is the suite we used to measure the performance improvement described above.

Another cool EditThisPage.Com site: Montana News Daily, with links to stories about retired Microsoft execs and Ted Turner and Jane Fonda, both of whom were at Davos last year. Small world!

BTW, a reader from Switzerland says that Bill Clinton is going to be at Davos this year. Luckily I already have my hotel room. He says the Clinton entourage is going to snarf up 1200 rooms!

Is it just me, or does it seem weird that Clinton is still president when it's already The Year 2000?

Array: Is Manila the VisiCalc of the Web?

New Manila feature: You can use pictures as navigation links, just by uploading pictures and editing your XML.

One week into the new year, it turns out, in retrospect, our Y2K Watcher page was exactly right. What else was there to watch? Nothing. It's been a great year so far!

From Dave Polaschek's email signature, a quote from Frank Sinatra. "I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day." I know what he means. Last night I had two big margueritas. And my brain, no matter how much coffee I drink, refuses to get started.