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Odd currency conversion from Paypal

I was about to buy an eBook about iPhone application development for $USD7.99

Safari2Luckily enough I happened to notice that the currency conversion to AUD was not only wrong, but out by a factor of 100! I was just a whisker away form sending the lucky seller over $1,000 AUD

It seems to be an issue with Paypal, rather than the specific site, although I cannot prove this assertion. If you’re buying on Paypal from Australia I strongly suggest that you check the amount you are about to send before clicking on “Pay Now”

Anyone else seen this?

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Microsoft believes I am totally STUPID

… and hopes that my employees are too!

This week my colleague Greg and I both received a CDROM in the mail from Microsoft. Since my personal computers run OS X or Linux, I didn’t even open the envelope at the time. Clearing my desk before leaving my office this evening, I was about to add the envelope to the circular filing cabinet (aka waste bin) when I recalled that when I asked Greg what was on the CD he had replied rather cryptically that he didn’t know as he was “waiting for someone who didn’t run Windows to open it and tell him what it contained”.

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