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 the first round in August 2007 after an 8 month wait for the judgement.
Nine appealed to [...]

After 38 years of living in what I believed to be a free country you can imagine my outrage when I came across stories about the Rudd government’s latest brainwave
Minister welcomes advances in internet filtering technology
(Computerworld have a good piece on it)
It would appear that like people in China, Burma and North Korea, we need [...]

On the 24th of May 2008 at 4:14pm we welcomed yet another member to the extended Drysdale Collective.
My brother-in-law and his wife took delivery of their first child

Toby George Micheal
The labour and delivery went well and mother and baby are well, in fact they are home now and getting used to the new living arrangements.
Toby’s [...]

After many failed attempts amongst the immediate family and friends there is finally a girl!!!!
Contgratulations to Shane & Jo on the birth of their daughter
Makayla Natasha
Born 03:14 on 22/04/2008, weighing 3.36kg (7.7lb) and measuring 52cm
Mum, Dad and Baby are reportedly doing well. I’ll a post a picture once I have one.
At least now [...]

At 05:45 on March 24th, 2008 after an "Easy" 4 hour labour my sister Rachel gave birth to her 3rd boy

William Vincent Whyte
Weight: 3.750 KgLength: 51 cmHead Circumference: 37 cm
Mother and baby are doing well….
This takes the count in my immediate family to 6 boys, 0 girls…  & Viv’s family to 4 boys, [...]

As you know from a previous post, we’ve been struggling through the process of buying our first home.
At approx 12:00pm today, we became the owners(*) of our own home!!!!!
Please feel free to pop around, no invite required, just give us a call to make sure we’re home (as if we wouldn’t be) and that the [...]

As some of you are no doubt aware we have, for the last few months, been working through the process of buying our first house. Two weeks ago we moved into the new place, we’re paying the current owners rent for the rest of the settlement period.
We formally take ownership of the place in 8 [...]

Some helpful person posted a comment on my blog to tell me that I had a phishing scam running from my machine, and sure enough with a little digging I can see that their was indeed some rather nasty stuff sitting in a hidden directory in my brother-in-laws user account.
It looks like there were two [...]

Well, I don’t know what to make of this one…
Disney Buys Pixar After years of less then stellar relations culminating in a mutual agreement to go their separate ways, Pixar and Disney seem set to tie the knot…
Disney has apparently bought Pixar in a stock transfer worth somewhere around US$ 7.4 BILLION
This deal will [...]

Sorry, this will be a short post. I just wanted to let everyone know that we are in the new place, broadband is working and all is right with the world…
Seriously though, we are still finishing the cleaning at the old place as well as cleaning and unpacking at the new place.
I hate moving but [...]