Author Archives: Dan

Education, Logic and Reason. The Vaccination for Ignorance…

Last week I posted about a story on channel Seven’s “Sunday Night” program on the issue of vaccination. I was impressed with the story, it was well written, backed by science and about as unbiased as  commercial networks get on … Continue reading

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The Rise Of The Anti-vacc Movement, Are We Still The Clever Country??

Back in the 80’s Australia was pushing to become “The Clever Country”, recognising the importance of a well educated populace (and hence workforce) in securing a bright future for the entire nation. Roll forward nearly thirty years to the current … Continue reading

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Activate the wayback machine….

As you probably known my employer IceTV have been fighting for 3 years now against the Nine network in a totally bogus attempt to misuse copyright law as a weapon against a company they saw as a threat. We won … Continue reading

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Apple: Customer Service Matters

A couple of weeks ago I noticed a crack had developed from the rear corner of the dock connector port on my black iPhone 3G running up the back for about an inch. The crack did not affect the operation … Continue reading

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Sethy the Star

As you probably know our number one son Seth recently started school. So far his weekly report cards have been really good and his behavior in class has been great. We’ve heard stories of other children in his class getting … Continue reading

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An organiser for iPhone Apps….

I stumbled across this blog post by Veronica Belmont (@Veronica on Twitter) about an awesome concept for iPhone App organizing. I don’t know about you but I have 5, starting on 6, pages of apps on my iPhone and it’s … Continue reading

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CodeSign error: a valid provisioning profile is required

This is the error message that has been plaguing me for a few days. What triggered it was replacing my provisioning profiles and certificates. Fortunately I found an answer in the following blog post CodeSign error: a valid provisioning profile … Continue reading

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UITabBarController refusing to rotate

I was struggling for some hours on an issue with an App I’m writing for the iPhone. For some reason I could not get any of the views to rotate to landscape, the API docs suggested that this was trivial … Continue reading

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To console or not to console…. That is the question

Viv and I have discussed the topic of buying a console many times and we were planning to hold off for a few years. Well, as they say “The best laid plans of mice and men often go astray”. We … Continue reading

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School Days….

Number one son, Seth reached a big milestone this week when he started Kindy at Wyong Public School. He’s been so excited since last years jump start program, wanting to wear his uniform and eat out of his lunchbox. We’ve … Continue reading

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