David McVay

Owner and admin of GeekActually.com and the host of the Geek Actually and Film Actually podcasts..

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New MacBooks – But Where’s the Firewire Steve?

New Macbooks announced and no Firewire port! So you have a copy of the fantastic iLife suite on your shiny new Mac but forget iMovie because you can’t get your video onto the machine in the first place. Oh, I see. You have to use an inferior USB connection, to bad that all three of …

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Geek Actually Episode 10 – Where’s the Firewire?

http://media.blubrry.com/geekactually/www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/www.geekactually.com/wp-content/episodes/GeekActuallyEp010.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadJoin David McVay, Mirren Lee, Jacob Oberman and Nicholas “The Little Geek” as we return after our week off with a light hearted show about flowers, our nations capital and the Coen brothers. David, Mirren and Jacob discuss the Floriade Flower Show in Canberra, its theme this year was …

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Reminder About Episode 10

Just a quick reminder that episode 10 is next Tuesday. As mentioned in the last show, we went to Canberra this week to see Floriade and could not record this week. The show next week should be a good one as we will discuss the trip to Canberra and Mirren Lee and I went to …

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US Kath & Kim Savaged by Critics

Well this was inevitable. The first reviews of the US version of Kath & Kim are starting and it is not looking good. The San Francisco Chronicle TV critic, Tim Goodman, was scathing in his review of the remake. “jaw-droppingly awful” he said and is asking if the American executive producer Michelle Nader had ever seen the …

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Geek Actually Episode 9 – She’s Hot And She Has High Powered Rifles

http://media.blubrry.com/geekactually/www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/www.geekactually.com/wp-content/episodes/GeekActuallyEp009.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadThis Week join David McVay, Jacob Oberman and Mirren Lee as they discuss Michael Moore’s new film, “Slacker Uprising”. This leads us old liberals into a deep and meaningful discussion about the US Presdential Campaign and other Michael Moore films. The panel also discuss Microsoft’s continuing ad campaign and …

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Slacker Uprising

I just want to start this by saying that I think Michael Moore has done an amazing thing by releasing this for free to the North American’s via the web. However, I don’t think he went far enough. Even if he didn’t want it to be free everywhere in the world, he could have released a paid …

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