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I found this site while doing a security check of one of my clients’ access logs. I like it because it gives the quick load times of page elements.

Pingdom Tools

The Full Page Test loads a complete HTML page including all objects (images, CSS, JavaScripts, RSS, Flash and frames/iframes). It mimics the way a page is loaded in a web browser.

The load time of all objects is shown visually with time bars. You can view the list of objects either in load order or as a hierarchy. The hierarchy view allows you to see which objects are linked to in for example a CSS file.

Every test also shows general statistics about the loaded page such as the total number of objects, total load time, and size including all objects.

Note: This version doesn’t load objects included in JavaScripts. We have also put a limit on the number and size of the objects that are loaded (to prevent the tool from downloading movies, for example).

I tested it with a site newly updated with MadCap Flare v2.5, redgriffins.org. Red Griffins is a quickly thrown together site I haven’t touched in three and a half years since going to the April 2004 decommissioning ceremony of my former squadron VS-38 known as the Red Griffins. I was a new daddy just a week later, and it’s been on the go ever since then.

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So I came across this great little gem in surfing the web. My brother Mike and I are both fans of the Scott brothers (Ridley Scott and Tony Scott) and their great contribution to thinking man’s action films.

(Re)Visualize ‘Blade Runner’ and ‘I’m Not There’ » bigscreenlittlescreen.net

Blade Runner: Final Cut will be released to select theaters in late 2007 for a 25th-anniversary run, with a special edition DVD that includes the original theatrical version, the director’s cut, and “The Final Cut“, which will incorporate newly shot scenes and effects.

Mike and I grew up loving this movie from the moment it first came out. I mean, I was only ten or so and he was eight, but that’s always been the standout moment of the early ’80s. Watching it on TV when they started playing it on network, or with those old VHS tapes (rental of course) we had a great time.

I think I could quote the entire movie. I know he could.