Month: July 2008
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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…
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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……
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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…
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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…
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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,…