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Web Site – Speed Test
Want to know your Internet Connection speed in a real world test? Want a fancy graphical presentation of your internet Speed? SpeedTest.Net has you covered. As you can see that even provide graphics results to can use on your own site.
Read moreGoogle Doodles
Sometimes using that Firefox Google Quick Search causes you to miss out on the best part of the Google Search experience, and that is the Google Doodle . Now while I’m tempted to include one here, I’m respecting the wishes of Google which request you use an official logo and “don’t feed the kangaroo“.
Read moreStories that impress and motivate you
I’ve worked for two Internet startup companies, both around 2 years each, both now long dead. The first was due to eventual lack of new VC funds, the second gross financial managment in the second year (apparently, when we were told there was no money December one year to pay us, the company that made large profits every month for over the first year, then had made losses every month for the past 12 months, but nobody knew about it.
Read moreHandling Error Levels in Logging
In reviewing some provided code to a client, I observed a number of actions contray to generally accepted practices regarding logging. This is what I provided as the general programming conventions with regardings to logging.
Read moreThe Windoze CLI, or lack there of.
There are many reasons why I hate Windoze, here is just another example. I need via the command line, change to a given directory, so I can manually run a command.
Read moreA lesson in Perl Package Syntax
I was given a perl program today, however running on my Fedora Core 5 install gave me the following error. $ ./nameofcommand Can't locate Term/ReadKey.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.
Read moreIt’s makes me cry
I got home today and sat down to read my home email list. Nothing new. But on a MySQL mailing list, there was an enquiry why performance was slowing in a given application.
Read moreYour Ideal Job Requirements?
I came across in my papers while searching for some taxation information, a list that I made to use as an evaluation in an “ideal job”. This goes with a general comment I made only a few weeks ago to a number of colleagues.
Read moreSHOW STATUS Gotcha
Well, it’s Sunday night so I will put this down to being the weekend. The background to being caught out is a request I made to my local Users Group mailing list for some information on people’s environments because I wanted to some empirical data analysis without having any more knowledge of the systems.
Read moreMicrofox ?
I’ve added Digg to my general lunch time reading web sites. I came across this yesterday. Microsoft invites Firefox development team to Redmond . Well, isn’t that nice, the big boy opening his pond (including all the sharks) to the little fish.
Read moreThe fast pace of technology in a Web 2.0 world
I had need to goto the Wikipedia this morning to review the terminology of something, and on the front page in Today’s featured article is Mercury. Being a tad curious given I’d heard only on the radio a few hours ago that Pluto was no longer a planet in our Solar System, I drilled down to the bottom to check references to other planets (quicker then searching).
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