Monthly Archives: May 2006

drm

Cath got me Ben Harper’s new CD the other day. I wish I could tell you how good it was, but the problem is: I haven’t played it yet. The CD comes with built-in digital rights management which essentially stops you ripping it to iTunes. Of course, it’s laughably easy to circumvent and I’m currently [...]

got me a beauty

I saw a giant ad banner in the mall today at lunchtime. It was your typical perfume ad – a banner four storeys tall, showing a laviscious woman in the arms of a hunky guy, with a picture of a perfume bottle and some sort of pretentious tagline. Then I read the name of the [...]

ruby on rails

Well, I took the plunge and had a look at Ruby on Rails tonight. I must admit, I missed the whole PHP thing; I started on HTML back in the day when it was the only thing going, and moved straight to Java/JSP from there. I dabbled with Java technologies such as Struts (which was [...]

subverting google

I took an interesting phone call today. A friend of mine – let’s call him Ritchie (after all, that’s his name) – wanted to know why my blog kept appearing in the top ten Google search results for his own name when he’d been killing himself trying to boost his own search position using all [...]

again, proven a visionary

Yet again, an idea I had years ago has been picked up and run with by the industry giants. Proof? Here. You really did hear it here first.

mic stand and pop shield

While I was editing my latest machinima movie, I decided I needed a microphone stand and pop filter for some dialogue I was recording. So, I bent me up a coathanger and made a pop filter out of a magnifying glass frame (you could also use an egg ring, or a needlework frame?) an old [...]