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RFI journal script, now with added PHP

I guess some people still visit my old blog on wordpress.com... got a recent request from someone to convert my bash script that I have cronned to download the daily (or nightly, I guess... timezones) RFI news mp3, into PHP, so they could put a link up for their students on their website.

Pretty straightforward, I calculate yesterday's date and then form a URL out of it.. in the bash case, I wget the file, but for the PHP script, just a header() redirect to the file itself (since it's made to be a manual process.)

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FAIL

Fiancée spotted an epic fail today at Doncaster shops :) sorry I missed it!

High Scalability: Facebook tweaks handle 6 times as many memcached requests

While, brief, this article was an interesting read regarding Facebook's engaging of scalability issues/solutions, given that I'm still cooling down off of Movember.