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2007.07.29AudioBunny
As Chas'N'Dave Say: Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit!
AudioBunny was soft launched about 8 weeks ago, and is gradually gaining a reputation in Japan for it's no-nonsense editorial style. The intent is to provide an alternative to the payola basis of the content in music magazines in Japan, using web publishing to open up the platform for music writers to write what they want to, and for a broader coverage of music available in Japan outside of the established monopolies.
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2007.03.07
West London Projects.
... one year on.
I've just put an amended and extended design by Paul Hetherington onto West London Projects, once again backed by my CMS, to make it all nice and easy for someone other than me to keep up to date.
West London Projects
(requires a wide screen, sorry. It's a bit wider than I'd design) 0 Comments: -
2007.03.07
Simon Rose Website.
Brutal Minimalism.
This is a very compact site - 1 and a contact page in fact - that I made for Saxophonist Simon Rose. I started with the aim of building a small CMS driven site for him, but in the end put everything on to one, very minimal, page. It's still powered by the CMS though.
I'll be adding the ubiquitous blog to it sometime soon. That'll make it all a bit larger.
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super minimal eh?recently got into the idea of specifying images and divs in em's, could work well on this site?
Ah, if only all clients would let you design super minimal stuff...
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2007.02.22
Darwin Streaming Server and AwStats.
How to analyse QTSS and MP3 log files ... and other boring anecdotes.
This is a techy entry just so I can refer to it in the future, or may save some other soul the time of wondering.
Darwin Streaming Server/QuickTime Streaming Server produces a variety of log files, generally in /var/streaming/logs or /var/log/streaming ... the two I was interested in were StreamingServer.log and mp3_acccess.log
StreamingServer.log contains requests to the main streaming server. You can analyse these logs in AwStats (I'm using version 6.6 build (build 1.887) with the following configuration parameters in your AwStats.*.conf (along with everything else you want as per the AwStats documentation)
LogType=S LogFormat=2mp3_access.log contains requests to any mp3 playlists or live streaming. You need the following configuration:
LogType=S LogFormat="%host %uaquot %time1 %methodurl %code %bytesd %extraX"and that pretty much does it. I need to work out some way of better using these logs to find out length of stay (that %extraX field is the duration of MP3 played in seconds)
This is all pretty easy to work out, but if you like the lazyweb this might help.
update
To stop Darwing Streaming Server from rotating the log files I've set the rotate on log-size and log-age parameters to 0, and it seems to work. Now I just need to work out a better way of rotating the logs in sync with creating the stats. 2 Comments:
Hi Dorian,I am trying to run awstats on a static StreamingServer.log
i.e. in the config file Set the LogFile to a static log file that was copied from Darwin and placed on a share.
I am unable to get it to decode the logs. Is there something that I am missing ?
Thanks, Confused User
The first thing I'd do is make sure that when you are running awstats.pl -update that it is using the correct conf file. For instance on FreeBSD when I run/usr/local/www/awstats/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -update -config=qt
The first line reported is:
Create/Update database for config "/usr/local/www/awstats/cgi-bin/awstats.qt.conf"
Which is the right config file.
Then I'd make sure that there aren't duplicate LogType or LogFormat commands that may set them differently in the awstats.conf ... if either of those are over-ridden or not set correctly then awstats will to not be able to interpret the StreamingServer.log format and extract the data from it.
The output from the awstats.pl -update command will also let you know which log file it is trying to read, and if it's read, and been able to parse, anything in that file.
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2006.12.07
Grizedale Arts.
First Phase is Go.
I've been working on this one for a while - my appologies to Grizedale, but it's now live in it's first phase, and will be ramping up soon.
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2006.08.24
It's about time for...
the anual reworking of SHOWstudio (god damn this CMS is getting complex)
After half a year of planning, designing, coding, arguing and generally putting our all into it SHOWstudio, with my help, have just launched a new version of their website. Lots of development on the existing CMS I built, lots of ideas from elsewhere (and in between) implemented, and a lot more to come...
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Having witnessed first hand the work you and the SHOWstudio team put into this launch I can easily say that you did a good job. It looks very nice in my opinion (including the forums). -
2006.06.19
Elsewhere In Between
Mixing Narrative
Elsewhere In Between is a project developed by Julie Myers which I helped her in the latter stages of, building a primitive video sequencer in Flash that uses a database of video clips to allow the user to make their own journey through the eyes of five film-makers in five countries.
The composer was originally developed by Julie in conjunction with BT's R&D facility with the intention of making an interactive DVD. At a late stage in the project it became apparent that a DVD would not be able to do what was desired.
This interface was built over 4 days to be given out on DVD to delegates to a conference organised by FACT, and used in a kiosk installations as well. Because it was built in Flash it was relatively trivial to create lower bandwidth video clips that could be played over the internet.
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2006.04.24
Somewhere to search, somewhere to shop
I've just put live a little shop and a search function over at somewhere.
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2006.04.13
Kinder Challenge
That Friday Feeling
In an attempt to re-live that 'bring in your toy' to school before your holidays start we're having a little easter gambling fun over at SHOWstudio
Hello
Paul Bruty, Dorian and myself often like to play a game we have called the 'Kinder egg challenge'. One of us goes round to the newsagent and buys four kinder eggs. We then choose an egg each and make whatever toy is inside. The toys are then anonymously placed in the kitchen and we put a pound by our own toy. We then ask a guest judge (a member of SHOWstudio) to go in and order them from best to worst. The person whose toy is judged to be the best wins all the money (£3!) and the judge recieves the fourth egg for their efforts.
Anyway, it seems Danny was quite amused by this and has sent a basket of Kinder eggs to the studio to say happy Easter. So we have decided to hold a studio-wide Kinder challenge with YOU as the judge. There is £8 at stake for the lucky winner, so choose wisely.
Results, and a more professional demeanour, will follow after the weekend.
Ross Phillips 2 Comments:
Hi, I am pleased to hear of your enthusiasm for the mighty Kinder Egg.. I am also a big fan and have recently opened an exhibition at The Print house, 18 Ashwin st. Dalston London E8. The installation is homage to Kinder. A 22ftx14ft volcano emerges through the floorboards with a giant spinning kinder egg on top, there are over 1000 toys invoved some of which move mechanically, a smoke machine, waterfalls and more. I have organised the space/exhibit myself and I'm hoping to involve a gallery with the view to showing in their space by the 18th of June. I would be very pleased if you could as fellow appreiciators of Kinder visit the piece and possibly give any information regarding its next move. Photographs of the piece in its last studio can be viewed at the website listed above. Kind regards, Duncan Mckellar
Photos of my Kinder mountain can be viewed at.. http://www.spaces.msn.com/duncanmckellar. Duncan Mckellar. -
2006.04.12
Comments!
Due to popular demand...
I've added a comments feature to the blog module of my CMS. It's pretty simple, and surely will get spammed to death before long. So then I can work on some anti-spam measures. Hurrah.
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Excellent ...! I look forward to dialogue ....
As am I.
