Sometimes you just need to take a short break, relax and have fun. A great way to do so is to check out some funny web comics, and we here at Pingdom are big fans of comics that dive into the slightly more geeky aspects of life. Once a tech geek, always a tech geek…

So, sit back and relax, take a few moments to yourself and check out some of the best tech comics around.

Enjoy!

The PC Weenies

By Krishna Sadasivam.

The PC Weenies covers tech, engineering, IT and software development (in other words: a wide array of tech geekery) in an original and very funny way. Not to mention that it’s beautifully drawn as well.

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bLaugh

By Brad Fitzpatrick and Chris Pirillo.

bLaugh calls itself “the un-official comic of the blogosphere”, which is a suitable description. There is plenty of satire and comedy to be found here. It’s not being updated anymore but there’s a rich archive of very funny stuff. (The Yoda strip at the upper right corner of this poster is also from bLaugh.)

Read more of bLaugh.

User Friendly

By J.D. “Illiad” Frazer.

User Friendly is pure geek humor guaranteed to make you smile. It’s been featured in many computer magazines and websites around the world.

Read more of User Friendly.

Kopozky

By Heyoka.

Kopozky is a quality comic about the everyday life in a web design agency, featuring the archetypal boss, administrator, copywriter, designer, developer, etc. It hasn’t been updated for a while now, but there’s plenty of fun to be found in the archive.

Read more of Kopozky.

Geek and Poke

By Oliver Widder.

Geek and Poke is full to the brim with satirical observations of the IT industry and general Web trends.

Read more of Geek and Poke.

OK/Cancel

By Kevin Cheng and Tom Chi.

OK/Cancel focuses on issues related to usability and interface design, and makes fun of everything from usability specialists, interaction designers, industrial designers, and more. It hasn’t been updated in a while, but there’s a big archive.

Read more of OK/Cancel.

The Joy of Tech

By Nitrozac and Snaggy.

The Joy of Tech follows the latest tech trends with its own strangely appealing, almost instruction manual-like comic strips. Funny stuff!

Read more of The Joy of Tech.

Wait, here are 7 more funny tech comics!

Here are some other great comics you might also like to check out that definitely fall within the tech geek category.

Each one links to a strip we thought was a little bit extra funny.

• Glitchtown by Rasmus Pettersson. Funny stuff about the good old Internet. (The author is actually Swedish, in other words a fellow countryman to us here at Pingdom!)
• InkTank by Barry T. Smith. Lots of IT-related fun.
• Penny Arcade by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. One of the all-time great web comics. Mostly focused on gaming, but there is plenty of general geekery in there as well.
• Comics by Randy Glasbergen. This is not a regular web comic, but there’s a big archive with IT-related comic strips that are really funny.
• Help Desk by Christopher B. Wright. Fun perspectives on tech and above all, tech support. One of the first web comics (it started in 1996).
• Bug Bash by Hans Bjordahl. Can software development be funny? Yes it can!
• Dilbert by Scott Adams. The granddaddy of all geeky tech comics. You didn’t think we’d forget this one, did you?

We’re sure to have missed some good ones, so if you know of other funny and geeky tech comics, please share!

The New England Patriots held what seemed to be a commanding lead (17-15) with five minutes left of Super Bowl XLVI last night. But the New York Giants came back and managed to win with 21-17.

As exciting as the game sounds, we missed the whole thing, instead spending our time watching the Superbowl.com website.

It turned out to be a rather dull thing to do because the site held up well and there was no downtime at all. The response time also didn’t give away anything significant in terms of online Super Bowl traffic.

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As Super Bowl 46 is approaching, fans will flock to the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana, and to TV sets around the world to follow the New York Giants battle it out with the New England Patriots.

Kickoff is scheduled for 6:30EST on Sunday, February 5, and we’re already monitoring Superbowl.com to see how the site will handle the event.

What team will win Super Bowl 46? How will the site cope? We can only wait to find out.

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Every Friday we bring you a collection of links to places on the web that we find particularly newsworthy, interesting, entertaining, and topical. We try to focus on some particular area or topic each week, but in general we will cover Internet, web development, networking, performance, and other geeky topics.h

This week we bring you a collection of articles focusing on cloud, with a few other topics thrown in to boot.

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Out of the 59 US-based e-commerce sites we monitored during the holiday season last year 28 scored a perfect 100% uptime for December.

Whether this helped spur on the booming sales in the US, we don’t know, but retail e-commerce spending in the US reached $37.2 billion for the November to December 2011 period. That was an increase of 15% from the same period in 2010.

We decided to dig into the numbers for these e-commerce sites to see how well they did in terms of uptime and performance. After massaging the data coming from our Pingdom probes, it turns out that the sites overall performed well during December 2011 in terms of uptime, but response time was an issue for several sites.

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Pingdom’s Mobile Podcast is a weekly show about Internet, web, and mobile stuff.

In this show, Saleh also gives us an update on the pending submission of his Carbon for Windows Phone Twitter client. We’re also joined by Mario Lurig, who talks about using Amazon S3 and Cloudfront to speed up a website.

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