Applications and websites that have provided bandwidth speed tests have been around for ages, but Speedtest.net takes the concept a step further. With a ultra cool “Web2.0ish” interface you’ll get your upload and download speed displayed on your screen based on a connection with a remote server of your own choice.

An excellent source for free backgrounds, sorted by user rating. The images are available in all common resolutions, from 2560×1600 down to 1024×768, and are very diversely themed.

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Ever wondered how you could put quotes around your blockquotes without using images? Stuart Robertson reveals a nifty technique at his site designmeme.com using only CSS to complete the task.

It will NOT work in IE 6 or less but it will work in modern CSS2 compatible browsers like Firefox and Opera. An alternative version that works cross-browser but requires the <span> tags are referenced for those of you still holding on to Microsoft’s creation from 2001.

On the very same site you’ll find a cool “Hoverbox menu“, also well worth a look.

This article explains how to configure and run multiple MySQL installations under Microsoft Windows.

I’ve now MySQL 5.0.37 and MySQL 5.2.3-falcon-alpha set up on my PC. I could easily add more versions but for my testing purposes this does the job. The installation procedure is explained in detail in my post about how to install MySQL5 on Windows.

NOTE! During set-up the installer asks you if you would like to Install As Windows Service, and in case you are planning multiple installations you should provide a unique name for each service corresponding to the version number. My default service (MySQL 5.0.37) is named “MySQL5” and my test installation (MySQL 5.2.3) is named “MySQL52” - you get the picture. For any installation that you don’t want Windows to initiate during start-up, uncheck the “Launch the MySQL Server automatically”.

Ever wonder what the most dugg up comment on Digg was? (for those who haven’t already seen it)

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