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Why PayPal Sucks…

So here’s the story of how I was permanently banned from using PayPal.

In late 2008, I made a post on a web developers forum asking for someone to build a PHP script to extract thumbnails from FLV files (Flash Video). At the time I had to manually take screenshots of videos I post on my site, the point of the script was to automatically generate thumbnails of the videos as they’re uploaded (similar to YouTube). Although I’m very well versed in PHP programming, I’m not very familiar with FLV files and how to extract thumbnails (it required access to extra server software).

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Gmail FINALLY removes ‘on behalf of’ from headers!

Via the Official Gmail Blog

Until now, whenever you send an email from a custom address in Gmail, it would automatically add “From:” in the headers. This reveals your Gmail address to people who you may not wish to see it.

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Important Info Re: IT Crowd Series 3 DVD Easter Eggs

I’m writing this as a personal favor to anyone working on decoding the IT Crowd Series 3 DVD Easter Eggs. There’s a lot of incorrect info going around, and although I have no interest in the hidden messages myself, I feel I should point out a few important things.

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Social Networking…

I’m now available on both Twitter and Facebook.
http://twitter.com/bbcentral
http://www.facebook.com/bbcentral

How to ‘Google’ Your Life!

This is something I’ve been thinking about for quite a while, how you can use Google and their associated products to get more out of your life online!

http://www.bluesbrotherscentral.com/forum/computers-video-games-technology/7452-how-google-your-life.html

Friendface.co.uk Text Deciphered!

If anyone was watching The IT Crowd last week, you would remember the whole plot revolved around a Facebook style website called “Friendface”.

Well there is a real official website at www.friendface.co.uk!

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Best Customer Service!

Well last week I made the decision to port my mobile phone across from Optus to Three.

(I should point out that I work for Optus, and I was on a staff plan with very cheap call rates).

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My new GMail Theme!

It matches my desktop wallpaper and doesn’t hurt the eyes so much at night:

Gmail Theme

It’s called "Planets"

WordPress Turbo

Just tried enabling it:

wordpressturbo
Took 2 minutes to cache all the files but it worked fine. Not really noticing a huge boost in performance, but I’m sure it’s saving bandwidth, and it does seem very slightly faster. I think I’ll keep it turned on.

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Happy Birthday TCP/IP!

1st January, 1983

A full switchover to TCP/IP was performed on the ARPANET

Google celebrates this milestone with a new logo today!

Happy Birthday TCP/IP

One of the more interesting challenges was the transition of the ARPANET host protocol from NCP to TCP/IP as of January 1, 1983. This was a “flag-day” style transition, requiring all hosts to convert simultaneously or be left having to communicate via rather ad-hoc mechanisms. This transition was carefully planned within the community over several years before it actually took place and went surprisingly smoothly (but resulted in a distribution of buttons saying “I survived the TCP/IP transition”).

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