A somewhat eclectic mix

One of our readers asked me to elaborate a little on the artists who contributed to my enjoyment of music from the 70’s. Well, here’s the list, alphabetically:

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We sell America for the ruble!

I’ve been copping a spate of Cyrillic spam in the last few weeks, which my mailfilter has been happily dumping into the garbage, where it belongs. Here’s a recent example:

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Internet speed test

These folks have the best web-based tool which measures the actual speed of your internet connection, for downloads and uploads. Although it’s restricted to connecting to only a handful of servers in the US, it should be sufficient to get an accurate and reliable estimate of your actual internet connection, as opposed to what your ISP charges you for.

Converting PHP arrays to XML

I thought I’d share with you a PHP class I found useful lately. I had to take a comma-delimited text file and turn it into an XML text stream. With the ubiquity of XML these days, you might find it useful too, if you dabble in PHP software development.

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