Archive for August, 2005


A blast from the past - Engadget 1985 BBS post

Check out this post over at engadget. It will bring you back to the days before Internet, when dialling up to a local BBS was the evening’s entertainment*. The excitement of choosing which piece of shareware to download, knowing that it would take an hour and would use up the daily 100Kb download limit.
*This is [...]

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IceTV is the EPG For Me (for now)

I’ll put my money where my mouth is, and I’m going to give IceGuide a longer run.
I’ve signed up for 3 months, and I will, of course, keep you posted.
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tags: center, iceguide, icetv, mce, media, Media Centre, Software

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Nutbush

I was at a party attended largely by over-40s last night, and everyone got stomping on the dancefloor to Tina Turner’s Nutbush City Limits.
A little later, standing at the urinal, it hit me: Nutbush!?
It’s a funny word. What does it mean? Say it again, “Nutbush”. Think about nuts. And bush. And put them together. Was [...]

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Afterlife (Tuesdays 9:30)

Afterlife is a strange show - strange because nobody on the web has actually seen it, or if they have, nobody’s writing about it. Even the ITV website (as credited by IMDB) doesn’t seem to have an entry for it… weird. Way to go avoiding buzz.
Maybe - shock - it’s being shown in Australia first?
Bleh, [...]

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An Xbox 360 Without A Hard Drive? The King Without A Sword?

I’m just playing up the King Arthur angle in a shameless effort to gain hits from Arthurian legend seekers, but seriously, the Masses want to know: Does not having a hard drive mean that the 360 is doomed before the new era is even upon us?
Well, kids, no. No, it doesn’t.
One of the really frequently-voiced [...]

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MCE 2005: No Data Available

Here’s the scenario: Your guide is working fine. You’ve got one of the custom Australian options implemented, and everything is great.
One day, you notice there aren’t any scheduled recordings coming up. Or, you hit the Guide, to be confronted with two and a half channels of “No Data Available” entries - or worse, it’s all [...]

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