New Song: I Knew It

Posted by lemiffe in Music, My Music on Jul 31st, 2009 | 0 comments

So, strange events take place in a life time. Life changing events. This is not one of them, but I wanted to make a song that expresses how I feel about quite a few things that happen in life, making reference to those life changing events.

It’s really a very bad quality song, as I don’t have half the audio equipment I used to have, nonetheless I hope you enjoy it. Download I knew it right here, or listen to it with the flash player below.

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The increasing level of connectivity between Social Sites

Posted by lemiffe in Business, Computers, Internet, lemiffe, Security, Society, Technology, WebDesign on Jul 31st, 2009 | 0 comments

A few years ago I dreamt of being able to have all this connectivity, lets say, things being published here, automatically-published there, and elsewhere. I knew we were getting there, as I have been configuring my services for the past few months, but I didn’t know we are so advanced.

If I made a rundown or a graph explaining the connectivity between social media sites I currently have, it would grow too large, or the connections would not exactly be easy to draw. * Update: Well I’ve decided to draw it anyway:

For instance: My Youtube is posting to facebook, google reader, twitter and two of my blogs. One of those blogs is lemiffe.com which when receiving a post will alert ping.fm which will then release a post of my new blog post to facebook, twitter, my blog at blogger, myspace, google talk’s status, and quite a few other sites.

Now, the only problem I currently see is the level of redundancy. Sites talked to other sites, which in turn talk to other sites, so whenever these sites provide much more connectivity to other services we might end up in a cyclic-post system in which one service posts to the other which in turn posts back to the first one initiating a never-ending cycle in which the user would have to stop one or the other service manually.

I really believe more insight should be applied, like, verifying the other sites connectivity and checking it will not repost to a site the first site has already posted to. This can be done via pure XML transactions between both sites, I mean, thats what web services are for, right?

Another thought I came up with is a Centralised User Account Service, which deals with the connectivity between users of different sites. Lets say: Gravatar meets facebook and ping.fm. All the services first verify the users information on the Centralised service, then they verify which permissions the user has applied concerning posting, which pages must the service send the new update, video or blog message to, and negotiate it only with the Centralised site, which will in turn send off the appropriate XML for all other “connected” sites.

It’s just a thought, Security-wise I am not sure where this would lead to as very tight security would have to be placed. Gaining access to the account of a user at the Centralised Site would be, well, Armageddon for that user. So probably a tighter security would have to be placed, with 128 big encription, SSL sockets, MD-6, who knows what else, but it’s just a thought anyway.

New Song: Your Smell

Posted by lemiffe in My Music on Jul 30th, 2009 | 0 comments

This is my second attempt at Lo-Fi. This song is called “Your Smell”, it was recorded using a combination of techniques. First of all I recorded it on a Digital Voice Recorder, as with my previous song. Then I recorded directly onto the PC, using my Sony headphones as if it were a stereo mic. While recording it in Cool Edit Pro, I was also moving things around the room, banging on things and closing and opening the door to add extra stuffing to the song.

The interesting part came when the battery on the recording device ran out near the end, so it gave an interesting twist to the end of the song. Afterwards I increased the speed by 12 octaves using the music editing program, and then reduced it 12 octaves to distort the sound quality. Furthermore, I added a few filters to add a bit of vibrato to the guitar.

Then I recorded the rest of the tracks, like the drums, the vocals and the clapping.

You can download the track Right Here, or listen to it using the player below.

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New Song: I Failed You

Posted by lemiffe in Music, My Music on Jul 30th, 2009 | 0 comments

This is my first attempt at making a really sad lo-fi song, using the technique I described in my last Twitter entry:

“I First recorded on a hand recorder, then passed through headphones in mic jack on PC, increased speed 300% and then back down again”.

I hope you like it: I Failed You

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Further Reading: Violence in Films

Posted by lemiffe in Life on Jul 30th, 2009 | 0 comments

For further reading concerning how violence in films and on the TV affects life and society, I recommend you to read the following 2 (lengthy) articles, as they are quite interesting and provide a good read:

http://www.cybercollege.com/violence.htm

http://www.cybercollege.com/sexrsh.htm