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 [...]
Bizarre Spam Email – Win this Goat!
April 10th, 2010 
bbcentral Yes, this is a REAL spam email I found in my Gmail junk folder… I don’t normally open spam emails, but they definitely caught my attention with the subject line “Chris, We’re Giving away a Casino Branded Goat!!” It looks like it was sent on April 1st. So this may prove that even spammers love [...]
Leno returns to Tonight Show…but Conan trends on Twitter!
March 2nd, 2010 bbcentral Something strange is happening right now… Jay Leno just returned to the Tonight Show, taking over for Conan O’Brien after the recent NBC late night debacle. But Twitter users are protesting, in their own way. Currently the trending topics worldwide are: That’s right, Conan makes the trending topic list TWICE! Leno doesn’t even get an [...]
I’m with Coco!
January 23rd, 2010 bbcentral I’m with Conan O’Brien, much smarter and funnier than Jay Leno!
DVD Censorship in South Australia
January 19th, 2010 bbcentral Another example of Governments gone crazy… As of last week, the South Australian government has decided that all R18+ DVDs must be sold in plain blank covers and kept in a separate part of the store (with the pornography). This is to “protect” children from seeing the covers of adult DVDs, which will somehow cause [...]
A Plea on Behalf of Web Developers Everywhere!
December 14th, 2009 bbcentral Why are there still so many people using Internet Explorer 6? It was released in 2001, since then IE7 and IE8 have been released. Windows Update has provided updates for the browser, doesn’t anyone update their operating system? It’s bad enough for people browsing with IE, but it’s even worse for us web developers who [...]
Futurama Alien Sign Replica
November 9th, 2009 bbcentral I actually made one of these into a fridge magnet for my desk, it looks quite good! For anyone who doesn’t recognise it, it’s a modified version of the alien sign from the Futurama episode “My Three Suns”, as seen here: The joke of the episode, of course, was that Fry drank the Emperor while [...]
How to import a large SQL file into MySQL
November 9th, 2009 bbcentral As a PHP/MySQL developer I’m regularly having to download backups of my databases, and occasionally I have to import them back into MySQL. The problem is that phpMyAdmin has a file size limit for uploading an SQL file (usually 8MB, depending on your server configuration). Some MySQL backup files are in the hundreds of MegaBytes! [...]
Gmail FINALLY removes ‘on behalf of’ from headers!
July 31st, 2009 bbcentral 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. In Outlook and Hotmail, it shows your email as coming from: myname@gmail.com on behalf [...]
Rise of the Idiots
June 9th, 2009 bbcentral Warning: I’m about to rant here, big time. I really don’t care if anyone reads this or not, I’m doing this for my own benefit so I can try to move on. Whether you agree or disagree with me is something I have no interest in. My blog title is a reference to the UK [...]
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