I’ve taken to conducting six week trials of various physical experiments on myself. My latest one follows two months of following a diet of 80% Standard American Diet (SAD). Next up is a Low Carb, High Fat diet. This is my week one report.

For a while now the buzz is about being cloud. Whether it is apps in the cloud, services in the cloud, or being a cloud provider you can’t seem to escape this buzzword lately. But given the recent releases and direction the “major players” are talking about, I have to wonder if we are entering a stagnation period. Or perhaps, to borrow a phrase from economics, perhaps stagflation.

Working with Redis can be done with the usual mindset, but approaching it from a different mindset can reap significant rewards.

Once upon a time, the United States was attacked and thousands of people died. Americans, and indeed much of the civilized world, rallied behind then President Bush to root out the evil doers and bring them to justice. But somewhere along the way, something went wrong.

In Wordpress Responsiveness Part 2 I wrote about WP Supercache (WPSC) and how to tune it to your site. In this part I’ll talk about a separate plugin which works well with WPSC, CDN Sync Tool, and how it can improve your TTFB and load times dramatically.

In Wordpress Responsiveness Part 1 I introduced you to the basic concepts behind one aspect of your website’s performance: how fast it responds. In part two I will go into more details of using WP Super Cache to improve your site’s speed and responsiveness.

How Fast Does Your Site Load?

It is a question that matters to your readers, to Google (and other search engines), and thus should matter to you. This is likely obvious to you. What you may not realize is there are a few fundamental types of site/page speed and how you handle each of them matters. In this article I’ll walk you through some of those details.

I originally entitled this “Bulverde Mayor Opens Mouth and Inserts Foot”, but figured this  suited it better. That said, both are true. In an article he wrote himself (opens in new window), the Mayor proved he knows nothing of the laws and common decency, then threatened to abuse the police to target a class of law abiding citizens doing legal things - riding their bicycles.

In a recent article on the NYC Soda Ban, Mayor Bloomberg stated:

“If we are serious about fighting obesity, we have to be honest about what causes it.” - NYC Mayor Bloomberg

I could not agree more. However, the question is: Is he being honest about it? He is using this assertion that sodas cause us to be obese to justify banning sodas over a certain size. But is that the truth? In a word, no.

The U.S. is obese. That is the message from government and so-called health experts. There is no way around it, they say. And the only way to get un-obese is to do what they say. But are we really obese? Or are the alleged experts wrong?