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Friday, July 29th, 2011
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I've been re-jigging and polishing up some of the leftover code from spider.my and am now fairly happy with the way Shipping-Quote.net keeps its currency exchange rates up to date. I wanted to add another rates source just to fill ...
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Friday, January 28th, 2011
I met a couple of friends in Vientiane recently (25th Jan 2011) as they were touring Laos. I had half a day free at the end of the visit, so I executed a 'brute force search' of Vientiane to find the cost of shipping parcels overseas. Vientiane is a lovely, ...
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Friday, January 28th, 2011
[caption id="attachment_1114" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Old world map - a lot of red"][/caption]
Adding Laos (article soon) to the shipping origins in the spider.my data meant I had to update a few things at spider.my - among them the shipping world map. The old shades of red were looking a bit dull, ...
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