Ellard

I have long essay about multimedia tools I can’t yet finish, in the meanwhile something useful.
YouTube is currently ‘broadcasting’ in two systems – the FLV you have grown to hate and MP4. The MP4 files are better quality and will probably be rolled out in the next few months. Meanwhile you can hack your way [...]

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Exegesis.

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(Can I first apologise for not having got the Showbag DVD out on time. It’s not just that it’s a mix of PAL videos that have to made NTSC and 720p60 videos that have to be made PAL etc. although that is misery. It’s also that I am ‘coordinating’, which is a euphemism for being [...]

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Did you know there was once a time when there was no Internet?
I’ll get you a chair, you’ll feel all right in a moment… but truthfully there was such a time and not long ago. No email and you couldn’t Google for things. You looked them up in books.
I was reminded this week when I [...]

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(Can you tell I am desperately avoiding useful work?)
Allow me to quote Ken Adachi:
There is a worldwide conspiracy being orchestrated by an extremely powerful and influential group of genetically-related individuals (at least at the highest echelons) which include many of the world’s wealthiest people, top political leaders, and corporate elite, as well as members of [...]

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Never mind the Mac vs. PC stoush. Holden vs. Ford lags. Beatles vs. Stones – who cares. The real stand up ‘take it like a man’ is Cigars vs. Hubcaps.
Once was Cigars were everywhere. You’d look up in the sky and have equal chance you’d catch a cigar or a hubcap.

Maybe even more cigars. Who [...]

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The Human League. Started with a cover of You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling & slides of sixties TV shows and ended up (as H17) as a northern soul group and (as HL) The Archies. Basically electronic baby boomers.
The B52s. Notably not the B82s.
Shakin’ Stevens. You’re not even trying.
The Bangles. The Go Gos. Because no one [...]

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Damn, I didn’t write that title. It was Milton Babbitt in 1958. But, Milton old bean, I am on your side. You and I, arrogant arseholes, who conjure up Godwin as soon as we hit the room.
Hey I just burned discs of the DVD, the CD, the transcripts of the MD & the 8 track. [...]

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I would first like to thank everybody that told me about the phonautograph being deciphered. I understand that it’s a wonderful thing but to my mind it’s like inventing a camera with film that can’t be developed. I think I still regard Edison as winning this one. Also the Talking Clock cylinder is one of [...]

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