Spanish courtyard of the Basilica de Sto. NiƱo de Cebu. In the heat of the afternoon, the splashing of the cherub fountain drowns other sounds. Inside, funereal silence among the kneelers... A long line waiting to touch and wipe and kiss the bullet-proof glass of the "original" Holy Child image. I love moments like this. I wonder what it was like in the Basilica de San Marduk de Babilonia. "The root of many tragedies is man's capacity to adore."
Last week I needed to compile a list of several hundred fake customer names with fake (but verifiable) email addresses and passwords to test a client's eCommerce site. Fake data generators At that time, I knew of only two online identity generators: Fake Identity Generator (FIG) and GenerateData.com (GD). By accepting three user-specified parameters (country, gender, age range) FIG outputs a lot of nice fake data, including disposable (but accessible) YopMail email addresses and relatively easy-to-remember passwords. However FIG doesn't provide free bulk identity generation so I had to generate and copy-paste identities one at a time – a very slow process – along with manually creating accounts using these fake identities at the client site (I had no access to the client content management system so I couldn't bulk register the fake identities). On the other hand, GD allows bulk generation of identities (up to 100 at a time) for free (and with more paramete...
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