My Next 30 Years

I think I'll take a moment, celebrate my age  The ending of an era and the turning of a page  Now it's time to focus in o…

My Personal Performance Goals

I had some interest on Twitter (where I am so much more active!) about the performance goals I had to write for work. Essentiall…

self care for young children

I really enjoyed putting together the Chores for Young Children entry, what OTs might call IADLs. Here is the compliment- the ADL…

SAI Drowning Prevention Collaboration in Uganda

Starfish Aquatics Institute (SAI) announced today that it is partnering in an international  drowning prevention collaboration in…

Learn To Swim: I Taught Myself

A Personal history and critique of modern learn to swim teaching technique I taught myself to swim at the beach. Yep! I’m a swim…

2 years on

I can't believe it's been two years since I gave up smoking. At todays prices and given I used to smoke 200 cigarettes a …

Children and Sunburn Protection

I hate sun burn: at least I do now days. When I was a child sun burn was nothing to be afraid of: a little bit of pain for a few…

Threads, http requests, assertions, listeners

This article is all about practice. The most important components of a JMETER test plan are: - thread groups - samplers (requests…

Alliance of Marine Mammal Parks and Aquariums

Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Get Back Into The Water I recently heard a pro dolphin captivity argument comparing the capt…

Browser request/server response, GET & POST requests

Some of the most important concepts in JMETER are  - HTTP request - request header - response header - response data Before using…

How I Eventually Got Over The Fear Of Swimming

Fear is a hard thing for all of us to overcome. Many adults have a fear of water and never learn to overcome it. As a result neve…

Miracle worker

Since I started running I have always had pain in my Achilles tendon on my left leg. It is something I have managed since sustain…