Internet Speed

Internet Speed tests without Adobe's bug laden Flash and even with tests for measuring traffic shaping:

http://www.measurementlab.net/tools/ndt

http://beta.speedtest.net/

Editing JSON (Cloudformation)

Cloudformation scripting is terrible because it's based entirely on editing JSON.  Ugh.  Human UNfriendly.

I'd tried several editors.  Amazon's editor (for Cloudformation), online editors, and plain ol' vi.

Props to this guy for extending JSON editing for my friendly goto editor, vim:

https://github.com/elzr/vim-json