Month: July 2008

  • This is why DRM is evil

    This is why DRM is evil

    OK I tend not to write too much on the DRM wars sensing I’m probably preaching to the perverted, but occasionally I come across something which is such a good example of why DRM is wrong I have to post it – this is one such occasion (Yahoo is taking it’s DRM servers offline) How…

  • Video Podcast #2 -testing testing

    Video Podcast #2 -testing testing

    Testing my new camera I give a tour of NoNo Towers, as it is known. Interestingly I found a VCR recorder – a good Sony in the street today. If it works, esp. with SVHS (likely with one of these NICAM 4-head jobbies), I’ll be able to digitise my earlier vids. MP4 now available here……

  • Pre history part 1

    Pre history part 1

    Gradually getting back into video and uploading some of my degree/personal video work. (Excerpts from) The Milk Lab Tapes 1995 (remixed 2002) (NSFW, contains super8 of birth and a rather charming 1950s porn lady, quite quaint really…) Milk Laboratory was an experimental music night – well not that experimental, we’d play Aphex Twin, LFO, Throbbing…

  • Open source imagery

    Open source imagery

    I usually cover copyright issues of a different nature; ones regarding audio. But as a keen photographer and designer I love images, and know how hard it is, or was, to find open source images. One big addition to this is Flickr Commons – several big museums and collections have gotten together with Flickr to…

  • Live Writer

    Live Writer

    Testing the new Live Writer on this blog, works well and gives you a preview of the page. Spooky for a Microsoft product this actually works! For some reason it posts twice though – editing is OK but a new post gets 2 of them with the same name – WTF? Just tried this on…

  • Oh Delia

    Oh Delia

    If you don’t know of my love of Delia Derbyshire and the mostly unsung heroes of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, well then start here. She produced and engineered the famous Dr Who theme (and if you watch the great Alchemists of Sound documentary, Ron Grainer asked  ‘Did I really write that?’ when he heard it,…

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