Welcome to Keith's Place

Pic of meHello and welcome to my little corner of the Internet! Within these pages you will find my creations, discoveries, and thoughts - well, the stuff that I have decided to make public at any rate.

For example: did you know that I am into IT security? Or that you should take an interest in Copyright? How about the "risks" associated with gaming? Well, these are just a few of the topics covered within. The exception is my job, you are unlikely to find anything here on that - I talk about that all day, why would I want to keep talking about it here?

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Reyn Ouwehand performs "Green Beret" theme

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What we have here is Reyn Ouwehand performing a fabulous modern version of the "Green Beret" theme by (the great) Martin Galway.  It also happens to be an excellent example of what a single talented musician can do with a handful of instruments and a loop machine.

Aurora: 3D Concept Browser

link to video Aurora is a design concept for a 3D browser by Adaptive Path who are working in partnership with Mozilla Labs and have presented a mock up of what a future browsing experience might look like.  So, it's not a real product, or even a product in development, but it looks cool nevertheless.

Stop YouTube (s.ytimg.com) Video Camera Spying

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Did you know that your camera enabled computer can spy on you? Did you know that by watching that video or playing that cute game you may be allowing a site to watch you? Did you know that YouTube (via s.ytimg.com) seems to be one such site?

Lean how stop this here.

Auriga: a 60fps, 720p, AMV

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Another first for Nostromo, he has (to my knowledge) created the first 60 fps AMV.  He used special software to interpolate extra frames into the Anime to make it effective.

God it's smooth. It might as well be an advert for HD.

24 fps may be the minimum rate for smooth images (in a medium that produces motion blur), but it is clear that the eye can keep up with higher rates.

Probably much higher.

The Watch for a Steam Punk Generation

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A couple of my friends are into steam punk, and I have just seen what I am sure they would regard as a wonderful birthday or Christmas present: HD3 Complication's Bi-Axial.

Arthur W. Burks, early computer theorist, dies.

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Ah dammit, how did I miss this?

19-May-2008 - Arthur W. Burks, Early Computer Theorist, dies.  Burks worked on Eniac, (amongst other things) and wasn't one of the "old guard" so much as he was part of the "original guard".  I guess there aren't many left.

Mailbag Showdown!

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This is a gem from Yahtzee (of Zero Punctuation fame) which I found over at despotliz's journal, where he takes a rather articulate exception to the dissenting email he received following his, apparently, controversial review of "Super Smash Bros. Brawl".

When critic’s attack.  Laughing

"s.ytimg.com wants to set a cookie" - Err... who?

link to blog post I was in Wikipedia today and and got a cookie request (from Firefox) for s.ytimg.com - of course I blocked it, third party cookies for cryptic domains are usually questionable. But the fact that it turned up while I was in Wikipedia made me wonder what it was.

So I looked into it...  then I unblocked it.

Is the Orphan Works Act back?

link to post It looks like the Orphan Works Act might be making a comeback.

For those that don't remember the last time (it was defeated in the US Congress back in 2006 thanks to a large body of opposition from artists, photographers, designers, etc.), the act was to amend copyright law such that any work not officially registered would become excluded from most copyright protections.

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