Slow, slow, quick, quick, slow
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THIS weekend I am wrestling with the perfect gift for the next IMF summit of central bankers. It is an exuberant, gothic, mahogany-encased, 19th century American âgingerbreadâ mantelpiece clock.
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Dead end? You bet. The game is going nowhere? Oh baby, you got it, and in a hurry.
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Lack of enthusiasm just can't hold these underappreciated stocks down.
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Fourth version of Linux distribution is late because of slowdown by key developers linked to a funding "experiment."
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Here's a new approach to tax season: Slow down.
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What does it take? A fireside chat from Nelson Mandela doesnt work. The pleas of pop icons like Bono fall on deaf ears.
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Blah. If any word were to sum up this year's mostly
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Leon Chevalier has posted about a class he's developed (you can download it here) that can help to speed up the load times for your site.   There are 4 relatively easy ways by which you can speed up the time it takes a browser to download a page. Following on from my post on joining CSS and JavaScript files, I have written a PHP script which will automatically do all of the above.   He gives example code of the class in action and includes some screenshots of the benchmarks from the YSlow Firefox extension showing the improvements.
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A 7200rpm unit that's as fast as a 10,000rpm job, apparently
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Thirty minutes until the start of the Vermont City Marathon, and I still couldn't activate one of my gadgets for tracking speed and distance. Fifteen minutes. Five. And the starting horn went off. I gave up fiddling to focus on my race.
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Don't fall for the hype, but expect a quiet increase.
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Blaxploitation flicks, badly dubbed kung fu movies and spaghetti Westerns. Cheesy effects, corny dialogue and lousy technical quality. Sex, violence and gleefully over-the-top gore.
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It takes a person about 10 minutes to  read a 2,500-word, front-page feature story in the Wall Street  Journal. Computer programs increasingly being used by investors  to parse news stories can process one in about three  one-hundredths of a second.
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All three of its units slid lower in the quarter. McGraw-Hill's results were not a page-turner.
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Data exchange format is just too slow, some say. But there's debate over the best way to make Extensible Markup Language fly.
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It's official. Postal delivery is as slow as snails, at least in Poland.
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Strip, shutdown, repeat Microsoft has published an article on speeding up Vista, aimed at general users.â¦