Away We Go Flower Flyer

This is kinda cool. The movie 'Away We Go' had promo fliers that have flower seeds embedded in them. I decided to plant my flier and behold, a flower is sprouting. Cool.

PayPal buttons and URL masking

I have been having this really weird issue the past week with my PayPal subscription links. No matter what I did all users that were trying to subscribe to my service were being redirected to https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr, the PayPal homepage. Nothing was working. I took me a while to figure it out, but after plenty of test buttons with generated code and a phone call to PayPal, I realized that the POST variables weren't getting to the PayPal server. Why?? So weird, what changed? Turns out that you cannot POST anything from a GoDaddy server (maybe any server) that has a masked URL. If you're using URL masking to make a particular directory of a webserver appear to be root directory, PayPal buttons will NOT POST variables correctly. For me, REMOVING url masking solved my problem.

If your PayPal links do not work, and you're using masked URLs, turn them off. That should do it!

Sony BDP-S500 remote code

If anyone has this DVD player, and doesn't have a remote, than you're in the same boat that I am. Luckily. I found an answer. The AVEX URC-R6 universal remote AKA Avex R6 can control this blu-ray player. It's $19.99 at best buy. The remote code is 286.

Hold DVD and SEL at the same time, type 286, then hit DVD again. (if you hit power, you'll have to wait forever for your unit to come back on) Thats it!




UPDATE: Unfortunately the SYSTEM MENU and STANDBY buttons are not part of the deal..... :(