Author Archives: Dan

It's a boy….

Well, finally the event we’ve all been waiting for, the birth of number 2. At approx. 11:48am on 21/06/2005 an icky, squirming, crying bundle of joy burst forth into the world. Officially he is called Callum David Drysdale but we’ve … Continue reading

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Topsy Turvy….

Oh, my, God…. There have been OSX on Intel rumours since the very first release of OSX, but that’s all they were, until now!!!! I’ve been offline for the last 5 days as my wife has been sick in Hospital … Continue reading

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Two articles in as many days

Maybe I need a new section devoted to IceTV with two posts in two days. The article below isn’t specifically about us but there is a reasonable piece about us in the middle of it. Welcome to the war – … Continue reading

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Choice Magazine Online Review

Continuing from my posting about the Financial Review article on IceTV here is a review from Choice Magazine Electronic TV program guide For those who may feel that the review is less than stellar, remember, we are the only players … Continue reading

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Ice in the Financial Review

As most of you would know, I work for IceTV as a software engineer. We have only recently opened our doors to the public and we’re popping up in various media publications, there was an article about our hardware PVR … Continue reading

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Are you sure?

It’s amazing how important those three little words can be…. On wednesday I was about to start on some major changes to the app I’m working on so I thought I had better make sure all my source was checked … Continue reading

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Beware the hidden proxy…

I lost several hours troubleshooting a particularly bizarre problem. I’m currently developing a “simple” admin interface for our customer database here at IceTV and I found that certain pages would fail to load for no adequately explained reason. I spent … Continue reading

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Happy McWeenie Day !!!

Today is our little boys 1st birthday !!! It’s hard to believe that 12 months ago Viv and I were at the hospital and Viv was going through a day of hell trying to bring our little Teeny man into … Continue reading

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GTi – MacMini

How cool is this… A Mac mini and iPod dock built into a car… Sweet…. TunerTricks ? Blog Archive ? GTi – MacMini It seems that the guy who did the mod does these kind of things for a living … Continue reading

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The Ig Nobel Web Page

I hope the various organisations that give out grants don’t stumble onto this site… The Ig Nobel Web Page Amazingly, these people actually do this stuff for a living. Next time your boss lectures you on the importance of commercially … Continue reading

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