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A lot of you who follow me around the net will have seen the Guest Post I wrote on CommentLuv titled “Keep An Eye On Those WordPress Plugins“, shortly after this I came back to the blog and started work tweaking it to help improve its performance.

Those of you that do read the blog a lot will have noticed some changes to some areas on the blog.

For starters, I’ve removed the toolbar, although this was CPU hungry it did make the blog a fraction slower, so now I have opted for the social buttons to continue in the “author bio” at the bottom of a post.

Also WP125 has been removed, as this can all be done without a plugin, why have a plugin when you can do it yourself just as easily

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Surfing around the internet the other day I came across a website called twiends.com a Twitter Tool that helps you increase your Twitter followers, but before I carry on, I must mention that this is not an automated program and you must take responsibility in following and unfollowing in a non aggressive way as you can be banned from Twiends and worse of all from Twitter.

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So there you are with your shiny new broadband and your service provider has promised the bees knees for a broadband connection, say that you can get an 8Mb connection, but can you?

Majority of the time you’ll find that you are getting no where near that sort of speed and you are getting something far more inferior.

So here is a handy little Broadband Speed Test for you to find out what you are actually paying for, you may be surprised in what you results you get, you may think your getting an amazingly fast Broadband speed, when in matter of fact you could be getting half the speed or even worse!

So how did you do, did you get what your Broadband supplier promised or are you worse?