Broadband connection speed

Out of curiosity, I tested speed of my internet connection. The results were strange and perplexing. I hypothesized that the closer the server is, the faster the internet speed.

Testing at Adelaide gave me this result which is the fastest speed I achieved in this test.
From Auckland, the speed was lower than Adelaide.
Testing at further sites around the globe gave me mixed results.
Testing two sites from Malaysia highlight the differences.
In conclusion, my hypotheses was proven wrong. The distance does not necessarily affect the speed of internet connection. I guess it must be something to do with the settings of firewall at the server or type of internet cables present in the region.

You can test speed of your internet connection at speedtest.net

Melbourne lockdown.

Gunman on the loose...

POLICE have identified a person of interest as they hunt for the gunman who shot three people in Melbourne's CBD this morning, leaving one man dead and a man and woman in hospital.

Two men came to the aid of the woman who was involved in a scuffle with a man, who then opened fire on all three before fleeing at approximately 8.15am (AEST) this morning near Flinders Lane in central Melbourne.

One man was killed while the other man, 30, is in a critical condition in hospital undergoing emergency surgery .

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I was planning to go to the city this morning. Fortunately, I postponed the plan...

How to migrate from old classic Blogger template to new Blogger layout

First step is to login at Blogger. If you are using old classic Blogger, your Blogger Dashboard will be looking something like this.

Click template and click customize design.Click upgrade you template, and Blogger will transfer your classic Blogger template into new Blogger layout. Blogger will automatically save your old template and you will always have the option to revert back to classic Blogger :).

Now, Blogger will ask you to choose any of the default Blogger layout. Choose any layout and you will be given the option to choose any customised Blogger layout later ;). For example, I choose the first Blogger layout which is Minima.
Once you do that, you are now have successfully transfer your Blogger account into new Blogger layout :D.

Now, the explanation after this will demonstrate the steps to upload any customised Blogger layout to your blog.


Click edit html.
Click browse. Find the location of any Blogger layout that you have saved in your computer. The file should have the extension of .xml. For example Blogger.xml . If the file does not have the extension of .xml, the layout will not be accepted by Blogger.

Once you have found the file, click upload.

Now, you should have something like in the picture below. Blogger will ask you whether you would like to like to delete widgets.

What are widgets? Blogger widgets are mini application that helps you to add anything to your blog. You do not necessarily need to know any programming language to edit widgets. For example, you can easily add links, shoutbox, RSS feeds, third-party javascript using widgets without having to modify the whole layout manually.

Since this is the first time you are using new Blogger layout, your current widgets will not contained any information. Thus, click confirm and save.

You will be directed to page elements under template tab once you saved your new Blogger layout.

This is the example of page elements of my template, Ladybug. Do you know that you can drag-and-drop the page elements in page element editor? For example, you can easily put Labels on top of About Me. It is a cool feature in new Blogger layout B-).

freezing

And it is getting colder from now on. At 9.00pm, the temperature is 2^oC. I bet in the early morning, it will be somewhere negative celcius.

Same layout, different platform.

I have managed to transfer my blogspot layout to another blogging platform, efx2.com. There are few things that I couldn't achieved at efx2 due to differences of the platform.

The experience taught me a lot and in the same time it helped me to improve the original layout :).