The Writing

The Writing

Time for a quick update on the album. Work is progressing pretty well, and I now have four final core *song concepts*. A song concept is what I refer to as the core seedling of a song, and is typically in the form of a verse and chorus and few other bits and pieces....
Back in black

Back in black

Tomorrow (Tues 8th Jan) I start back at work, and I will be chewing through the email mountain. If you have emailed me in the last three weeks or so, I hope to get to it over the next few days. In other news, I am now confirmed as the opening keynote for...
Album Writing, One Approach

Album Writing, One Approach

I wanted to take a nice extended leave over the Christmas period, and while much of it was zipping up and down the country visiting people, I have also had the opportunity to spend some time at home. Now, this may conjour up the image of hours spent in front of the...
Quickies

Quickies

Ladies and Gentleman, a few quickies to shoot out here: ## Open Source * On Sunday Dec. 16th, Richard Johnson (nixternal) and (hopefully) Mario Limonciello (superm1) will be leading an [Ubuntu Packaging Jam](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/RunningPackagingJam) to teach...
Rest In Peace, Vitek

Rest In Peace, Vitek

What the hell is going on? Why on earth are good people taken away from us? On this planet we have millions of complete, utter, arseholes, people who treat other people like dirt, yet it seems in the grand scheme of things too many good people are taken from us. Three...