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. Firstly, my website www.reynholm.co.uk has NOTHING [...]
How to use the new Amazon AWS Signature in PHP
May 9th, 2009 
bbcentral I’ve just spent 3…no…4 hours messing about with this, until I finally got it to work. The new Amazon Associates (or as it’s to be renamed, Amazon Product Advertising API) requires that by August all requests include a Signature. Documentation here: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSECommerceService/latest/DG/rest-signature.html Here’s how I implemented it in PHP (I had to make some changes [...]
Amazon.com can be so hopeless sometimes…
May 8th, 2009 bbcentral For the record, I love Amazon.com. I order dozens of CDs and DVDs through them all the time. On my site I wrote a function to use Amazon Web Services to download product data for actors. For example, you visit Dan Aykroyd’s page and all his DVDs appear at the bottom. Simple enough. Then today [...]
Channel Ten are LIARS!
March 24th, 2009 bbcentral Network Ten in Australia have been airing the TV series “Lie To Me” since it began. This is one of the few shows they “Fasttrack” (ie they air it 1 week after it airs in the USA). Tonight we saw an episode called “Do No Harm“, it’s episode #6. It originally aired in the USA [...]
Social Networking…
March 21st, 2009 bbcentral I’m now available on both Twitter and Facebook. http://twitter.com/bbcentral http://www.facebook.com/bbcentral
Blues Brothers Central v2.0 – 97% Finished!
March 12th, 2009 bbcentral I’m now about 97% finished rebuilding Blues Brothers Central (www.bluesbrotherscentral.com) It’s a massive overhaul I began in Feb 2006. The site I’m currently running has existed since 2003, and although I’ve constantly added new content/features and redesigned it several times, it’s essentially the same framework. The new site is a complete rebuild, everything has been [...]
Will you crazy people leave me alone?
March 3rd, 2009 bbcentral So as you all know I built www.lcarsdeveloper.com back in 2002, when I used to be a bit of a Star Trek fan (something I lost interest in very quickly). At the time I was teaching myself Flash, and I wanted to take on a big project to test my Flash skills and improve on [...]
Drunk Programming
February 26th, 2009 bbcentral Programming is more fun when you’re drunk. I’m actually enjoying it again for the first time in months! And all it took was 2 glasses of bourbon and 2 glasses of Irish Whiskey! This function I just wrote is so awesome, seriously. Now I have to fix someone else’s website before I can go back [...]
How to ‘Google’ Your Life!
February 9th, 2009 bbcentral 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!
December 23rd, 2008 bbcentral 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! Except when you load the site you get a Reynholm Industries error message (I had nothing to do with this, I assure you!) [...]
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