Author Archives: Paul

Performance Testing – A Simple Plan

February 10, 2009 – 5:02 pm

I was asked to outlline what I’d expect someone to decide before they started a performance test exercise. A quick look at StickyMinds shows this document, which looks very good. It is, however, 8 pages long, which is about 7.5 pages longer than I need if my target audience is going to bother with it. [...]

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Quiet

February 9, 2009 – 6:36 pm

Boy it’s quiet round here, eh? I am snowed under by a combination of work, domesticity and online flash games. Oh, and apathy. But mostly flash games. I’m currently pondering switching over to a somewhat longer post once per week. I’ve the feeling this would be a lot less work than either a) my previous [...]

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Memory test

January 27, 2009 – 9:38 am

From the BBC: “Reducing what you eat by nearly a third may improve memory, according to German researchers.” They half-starved these folks, then asked them what they had for tea last night. Turns out they could remember every last detail.

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Ballot Writing

December 19, 2008 – 11:10 am

There’s a recount going on in the Minnesota Senatorial race between Norman Coleman (R) and Alan Franken (D). The vote highlights the inadequacy of much of the US voting system – the variability of the voting methods used means that if this was a science experiment they’d have to give a margin of error. That’s [...]

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Best. Nativity. Ever.

December 12, 2008 – 10:19 am

Last night was my daughter’s school nativity play (she did great), which featured ukeleles, interpretive dance, a girl playing air recorder, and the theme from The Exorcist. Genius.

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