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Finding the Time to Do Everything

Finding the Time to Do Everything

24 measly hours in a day divided up among competing priorities and initiatives that always seem to need more time than we have available. The joys of modern life seem to have ever-increasing demands of our time and attention without giving us the full reward of our efforts. I know this is starting off like a bit of a rant or whining, but I need to constantly remind myself that I need to find time to do everything. But what…

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Blogging from the phone

Blogging from the phone

I am sitting in a car waiting to pick up a relative and noticed how slow time goes by while doing nothing. So I am taking the time to really look at my phone and see all that it can do. Guess what!! The modern-day mobile phone can do a ton of things! For example, I am creating this blog post from a phone. Think about how close we are to have a full computer in our pocket! All you…

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Amazon EC2 Playground

Amazon EC2 Playground

Hey Amazon! Thanks for allowing us to play with the EC2 Micro Site for Free! I am having fun time playing with it. I am amazed how bad my Linux skills have gotten, but at least I have a new server to play with and learn more about. I think I am going to move this blog to the Amazon EC2 cloud, so I can learn more about it in the real world. For those looking to do it, I…

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Using Site Speed in Google Analytics

Using Site Speed in Google Analytics

Today, I was looking through my Google Analytics account and found something new. In reality, it is not really that new; I am just late finding it. The feature that I am speaking about is called Site Speed. Site Speed is a feature that I am most excited about as it offers us Google’s perspective on the average time it takes to load various pages on our websites.  This is not blinded aggregated benchmarks but the actual load times for various pages…

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