Archive for November, 2007

Facebook is slow, but there’s an easy fix

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

It seems like the Facebook engineers add another javascript and css file to their pages with every new feature. As of today, viewing the Facebook homepage loads 36 javascript files from Facebook and 4 more from advertisers. In addition to these 40 files, there are 12 css files.
That’s a lot of […]

Jake Shimabukuro and the exploding niche

Friday, November 9th, 2007

Last night I went with a few friends to Yoshi’s in Oakland to see Ukulele player Jake Shimabukuro put on a sold out show.
This guy is a Ukulele player. He’s outrageously talented, but he’s still a Ukulele player. I’ll bet most people in the Bay Area have never even seen a […]