July 18th 2008

Sydney, Australia. Time for my annual update of the oldest blog on the interweb. You will find more information at KeithAhern.com or follow me on twitter. Best personal email is keith dot ahern at mac dot com

August 19th 2007

Sydney, Australia. I moved to Sydney a year ago to work for News Digital Media (the online arm of News Ltd.) as Mobile Technology Manager Those of you that know we a while know that I tend to run screaming from startup to huge mega corps and back again every few years. Well its happeneded again. REDphone didn't quite make it and sadly I didn't manage to make it open source. Anyway one year down in Sydney and its a love hate relationship. It's an awesome city but a tough city to effectively start a new life in. drop me a line - keith AT this domain.

July 19th 2005

Brisbane, Australia. My company DVD Tour has expanded beyond DVD production into new media technology for the Real Estate Industry. We're now called the Real Estate Depot and we have a really cool service called REDPhone which sends properties to phones as an MMS message. We also have a web product called REDWeb which is a slick property listing website. The Real Estate Industy in Australia is quite conservative and a bit technophobic but we've received a great reaction to our products. Next on the list is internet TV and location based services.

February 28th 2005

Brisbane, Australia. Tucana shut down so I started my own company called DVD Tour We make cool DVDs, online movies and websites. We're at www.dvdtour.com.au, I can be contacted by seding an email to keith at that address.

July 6th 2004

Brisbane, Australia. I'm still here working for the same company under a new name: Tucana Technologies. I bought an apartment in a futile attempt to appear mature. Feel free to email me at keith@tucanatech.com if you want to get in touch.

May 15th 2002

Brisbane, Australia. I'm still here, not very many people come to Brisbane and stay, I'm part of a very exclusive (reclusive?) club. I'm still with the same company doing cool stuff and trying to change the world :-). Australia is a pretty cool place, I've a lot of friends here. A lot of friends from secondary school and college have turned up here too.

July 3rd 2000

Brisbane, Australia. I've moved from California to Australia, Brisbane to be exact. So far I'm enjoying it and today is my first day of work at Plugged In software I haven't started working on anything yet so we'll see what happens.

October 8th 1999

My department have been moved to a wholly owned subsidary of Philips called Origin. But not much has changed, I'm still doing the same old stuff (Perl,apache,xml,php). I got a few of my old project working again, which is cool. The CyberClock! is working and so is my VRML Visualisation Tool. Check them out to see the state of the art in internet 3D 3 whole years ago! guess what, it hasn't got much better... I'm not glorifying myself - its just that 3D on the net still stinks, with the exception of QuakeNet etc.

May 5th 1999

Time for my yearly update! I'm still at Philips. I don't do 3D anymore. I was working on an MP3 jukebox for a while but it got canned by moronic managers who probably still listen to 8-tracks, now I'm working on a Philips Internet service to do cool things like program your VCR from your web browser or control your Philips Lightbulb^tm from your Philips Toaster. My current email is keith@pmc.philips.com

May 1st 1998

Yes, I am alive. I quit Netscape in August 1997. I now work in the Advanced Technology Group on 3D multiuser environments at the Philips Multimedia Center in Palo Alto, California.

These pages are out of date! - go to my home page at Netscape

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me. NEWI was feeling nostalgic one night and I got this tool working again. I wrote it over 3 years ago, but it feels like 20... Final Year Project:
VRML Data Visualisation
System Working! October 99 VRML
Cyberclock VRML
Java
CGI CV
Resume Multimedia CBT Program on Neural Networks Sign my
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Final Year Project

A 3D visualisation tool on the Internet using VRML. This tool will allow anyone with a VRML viewer to visualise data in 3D dimensions. This data could be the output of a spreadsheet, a formula (y=sin x) etc. Once rendered the resulting data may be modified by adjusting parameters on the HTML page

Try the VRML data visualisation tool

More information soon.

CyberClock

This is a Virtual Reality Modelling Language (VRML) clock generated by a cgi-binary. By clicking on an Image of the world a 3D clock is generated with the correct time for that part of the world. The Clock is hyperlinked back to itself so that by clicking on the clock again (in the VRML browser) the Clock will be updated with the correct time.

Try the CyberClock

CV / Resume

My CV and course transcript are online. Choose from the following:

CV Tables Version

CV Non-Tables Version

Multimedia Computer Based Training Program on Neural Networks

I completed this project between March 1995 and September 1995 while on work experience in Dortmund University. The course was authored in Multimedia Toolbook 3.0 and uses various types of media such as full-motion video, Audio Narrative, 3D graphics (3D Studio) and actual interactive Neural Networks. I was provided with (text) content and did all the programming, graphics (2D & 3D), animation. There is the possibility of the course being published as a CD-ROM.

Guestbook

Want to leave me a message? Use this Guestbook I wrote in C for a company called Multimedia Technologies Ireland(MTI). I also setup their Webserver. The guestbook is modified for my page. All guestbook entries are logged to two (HTML) files - one for the entire entry and one with just the name and company allowing for easy browsing of entries.

Sign the guestbook

Problems with these pages? mail me keith@skynet.ie