December, 2007

Linkage / Mozilla / Work — 7 Comments
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Dec 07

What happens when your job is also a hobby?

I took a vacation day yesterday, since I had a bunch of appointments piling up, and figured it would be best to just blitz.  In the evening, I was sort of fiddling around, and built this:

PDB v1

It’s probably only interesting to people who find performance monitoring interesting, but I like having it around, even in its very rough condition.  I would love to include the Talos graphs in there, since Talos data is a lot more relevant than the oldschool tests, particularly around pageload.  Nevertheless, it beats clicking a hundred different links off the tinderbox waterfall, and it was a fun excuse to play with a tiny bit of jQuery too.

Johnath’s Performance Dashboard – Trunk

[PS - NSID Day 12 - pretty damned shaggy.  Itch might be subsiding though!]

Life / Mozilla / NSID / Photography — 7 Comments
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Dec 07

NSID

Johnath on NSID Day 7A couple years ago, when I still worked for IBM, there came a point – about a week into December – when I realised that I had no more user lab sessions, no more customer travel – that I had no particular reason to keep myself presentable.  This was an opportunity not to be ignored.

I tend to shave pretty regularly, and I think people tend to prefer it that way, for the most part.  I do too, really.  But sometimes you need a chance to stretch your follicles and see what you’d look like if only.  And so, NSID was born:

No Shaving In December

I have been delinquent in not introducing the concept sooner, but in truth, the first NSID was not a full month long anyhow, and we keepers of the faith welcome late arrivals in any case.  Don’t view it as a contest, or a strict discipline, view it as an opportunity.

If you have to shave early because of some social function – so be it – consider resuming your hobo look afterwards if there’s still time.  If you have to shave it because it itches like an unholy FIRE, that’s okay.  NSID is not about judgement.  It’s about self-actualization which, unless I am sorely mistaken, and I’m not, is right at the tippy-top of the god damned pyramid.  It’s the gift you give yourself.

Know too that you are not alone.  I am here.  Robcee is here.  Beltzner and bhearsum and claire are here too.  Shaver defied the destiny of his very name to join our motley crew, and mconnor is a member by default.

We have a flickr pool.  You know what to do.