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	Phil's Blogservations Thursday, May 26, 2005 Posted by philgomes 9:50 AM Smut: Still The Internet's Test Bed Smut: Still The Internet's Test Bed If you want to test your Web server stack to see how much traffic it can handle, I say start hosting that digital video of Paris Hilton's Carl's Jr. commercial. Apparently, it overwhelmed the Carl's Junior site, reminding me of some lines from the song "Smut" by Tom Lehrer: I never quibbled If it was ribald I would've devoured Where others merely nibbled As the judge remarked the day he acquitted my Aunt Hortence To be smut, it must be utterly without redeeming social importance If their site actually withstood the crushing demand, it'd probably be robust enough to handle pretty much anything else, right? We'd have a world where a machine that served up writhing, scantily clad socialites one day would reliably perform e-commerce or online banking the next! A while back, I coined the term "pornformance" as the ultimate benchmark of a system's performance on the public network. If you... ahem... strip away all of the moral disagreements and rhetorical baggage surrounding pornography (most fundamentally, even arriving at a commonly understood definition would be a good start), you end up with the most punishing test environment possible. Still kinda tough to sell that idea to your CIO, I guess. HOME | OBSESSIONS | FAQ | HEROES | CAREER | BLOG | CONTACT Note that the views expressed on this site do not necessarily reflect those of Phil's employer, its business partners, its clients, or anyone or anything that doesn't come from Phil.	ABOUT THIS BLOG This blog not only discusses PR and media matters, but Phil's everyday observations about a variety of topics. EMAIL phil[at] philgomes[[dot}]com SYNDICATE Feedburner ARCHIVE YAHOO! IM SKYPE WISH LIST PITCH POLICY MY PHOTOS www.flickr.com Photostream RSS Enter your Email Powered by FeedBlitz COMMENT AND TRACKBACK POLICY Comments and trackbacks are unmoderated, though I will delete the patently offensive ones. Any comments and trackbacks are the opinions of the individual writer of those comments and trackbacks, and not those of Phil Gomes, his employer, its clients, or its business partners. If you have a bone to pick, bug the people who wrote the comment or trackback.