Here's a neat trick: Measuring your Internet download speed from the command line.

Basically you need wget to download a big file (download to /dev/null will not waste disk space ;)) and simply check the average speed at the end.

Something like:

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This is a test post, as the name implies :)

32exby4kah

This is the first post that I write at http://diffract.me:8080/blog and that gets automagically pushed from a django view logic code into posterous, using their API. So now I can write once, and have it everywhere. World domination is at hand,...

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