For more than a decade, programmers have been refining the art of Web development while systems administrators have been honing configurations, adding hardware, and fattening network pipes. Upgrades at peering points and transport backbones have dramatically improved network performance. Despite all these enhancements, however, many users still register the same complaint -- "Your site is too slow!" Continued...

Most Web sites contain static elements that are shared by several pages. Each page on a template-driven site will likely contain common elements such as style sheets, Java scripts, and images. As a browser parses HTML, it looks for items required to construct the page. If each request requires the browser to repeatedly download the same elements, a lot of unnecessary bandwidth will be consumed in just a few short clicks. Continued...

Bandwagon Fans
by Jeffrey Fulmer (published in Barhopper)
May 2005

In the late 80s and early 90s, the Bays were bad, really bad. People frequently combined the records of Green Bay and Tampa Bay in a vain attempt to create a more competitive franchise. The result was Grampa Bay. Continued...


 Where Have You Gone, Mr. Microphone?
by Jeffrey Fulmer (first published in Blog Day Afternoon)

Ron Popeil  sells a lot of crap. His company produces a rotisserie oven that can turn a double-wide into an Old Country Buffet. It sells a dehydrator which can rid food of all that pesky moisture and a sausage maker for people with their own ... I don't know, pigs? Popeil has cured baldness with a spray can full of “hair” and in 1979 he alleviated unpleasantness caused by the common zit. Continued...