Author Archives: Jeremy Brown

I’ve been called a geek and I work with technology in all sorts of ways.

My other interests include motorbikes and adventure travel. Check out 2wheels2africa.com for a recent adventure I did with a friend.

Cheap And Easy Cloud Cracking On The Way

Ama­zon recently announced a new instance type for their EC2 cloud ser­vice that they call the Clus­ter GPU which has an impres­sive spec: 22 GB of mem­ory 33.5 EC2 Com­pute Units (2 x Intel Xeon X5570, quad-core “Nehalem” archi­tec­ture) 2 x NVIDIA Tesla “Fermi” M2050 GPUs 1690 GB of instance stor­age 64-bit plat­form I/O Per­for­mance: Very …

November 27, 2010 – 1:15 am | By Jeremy Brown | Posted in Blog Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Do Cameroonian ISPs care about their customers?

I wanted to inves­ti­gate the typ­i­cal expe­ri­ence of a Cameroon­ian Inter­net user while vis­it­ing the web­sites of the major Inter­net Ser­vice Providers (ISPs). I fig­ured that the time and energy a com­pany puts into opti­mis­ing their web­site for slow con­nec­tions might indi­cate how focused they are as a com­pany on their cus­tomers. After all, if …

November 19, 2010 – 9:10 pm | By Jeremy Brown | Posted in Africa, Blog Posts, Cameroon, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (2)

How to Optimise WordPress Performance for Search Ranking

Google says that they use the per­for­mance of your web­site as part of your search rank­ing: You may have heard that here at Google we’re obsessed with speed, in our prod­ucts and on the web. As part of that effort, today we’re includ­ing a new sig­nal in our search rank­ing algo­rithms: web­site speed. Site speed reflects how …

November 17, 2010 – 8:00 am | By Jeremy Brown | Posted in Blog Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

tenfourty.com on the Way Back Machine

When I was think­ing of what this site used to look like I thought of the Inter­net Archive’s Way Back Machine and funny enough I found tenfourty.com on it. Who would have thought that a lowly per­sonal site would have a snap­shot kept for pos­ter­ity, hardly worth keep­ing around I would have thought. It seems …

November 14, 2010 – 3:06 pm | By Jeremy Brown | Posted in Blog Posts | Comments (0)

Relaunching tenfourty.com

This is my first blog post in quite some time. I used to have a per­sonal web­site and blog on tenfourty.com quite some time ago, but I got really busy at work and stopped updat­ing it before even­tu­ally tak­ing it down when the con­tent got incred­i­bly stale. Since then my per­sonal domain, tenfourty.com, has been empty for …

November 13, 2010 – 12:31 pm | By Jeremy Brown | Posted in Blog Posts | Comments (2)