Pain and sadness

Posted by: Ryan Breen on 08/15/2007

Today I relinquished my beloved MacBook Pro to the hands of a local Genius. Some hardware needs replacing, and they don’t know how long it will be. I knew that this day would come eventually, but I can’t say I was emotionally prepared.

The important thing is to put one foot in front of the next and just keep living. That’s all I can do.


About Ryan Breen

Ryan Breen

Ryan Breen is the Vice President of Technology at Gomez, the leading provider of Internet application performance information. After graduating from Duke University with computer science and economics degrees in 2000, he led a team creating a suite of web performance management technologies, including a Java-based web browser emulation platform.

Using these tools, Ryan has worked with hundreds of top Internet companies to measure and manage the performance of their web applications. As more customers have moved to Ajax technologies, Ryan has helped them define performance best practices applicable to the new development style.

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