Archive For July 27th, 2004

How Stating the False Hides the True

At first glance this essay makes a lot of sense but think about it. Is the media not biased? The author makes the assumption himself by referencing Fox News. Still, great comments after it and worth a read! (Thanks Justin for another great link!)

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How to download Real Audio streams and convert Real Audio to MP3

This guide is good, and there’s even a link to a page with instructions on doing the same and more on Linux! And in a timely coincidence, Justin’s delicious bookmarks points at this page with instructions on recording streaming audio with Mplayer! I’ve done the same and posted command lines here before. Go search for [...]

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Blackpool Side Street

Never having been down this street before, I snapped a few pics of it. That guy walking up the road is a van driver who stopped to talk and joke with me before heading off!

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Compress Me!

This technique is an old one. Feed your content through the PHP output buffer using the gzip handler, then at the end flush it out to the browser. Even if the text doesn’t compress well, just using the output buffer results in slightly less network traffic as the data is sent in one big blob. [...]

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