Nobody expected the 2020 we would all have. I am realistically suspicious that 2021 won’t be much better in terms of political drama, pandemics, and the cost of living for many of us. When I wrote Surviving on Borrowed Time which released at the end of 2019, my aim was to compose a dystopian adventure …
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A Life Spent Online: Privacy Essentials and What to Look For
I’m certainly not the messiah or anything more than an armchair privacy advocate, but to supplement my first two articles in DeGoogling my Life (here and part II is here) I figured I’d continue the theme with some suggestions. I am the first one to put my hand up and admit that going from Google’s …
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DeGoogling my Life Part II: Exploring Mountains of Extracted Data and Revealing How Much Information I Handed Over
After deciding to dump Google (or as much as I could, at least) I figured I’d go through the export of my main personal account that I have had for many years. I’m by no-means an online privacy connoisseur. As stated in the first part of my DeGoogling journal, I opted for Outlook as an …
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DeGoogling my Life Part I: Moving emails, contacts and calendars from Gmail to Outlook
It’s not me, it’s you… Technically part one for me would have been moving to DuckDuckGo and trying to rely a little less on Google for services like maps and cloud storage, but this was the big one for me. An email account — well, actually several accounts spread across Google’s business suites, really — …
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Checking in!
It has been a while since I have been this busy (a.k.a not being a lazy shit) I’ve been designing and working on a desktop/mobile application which will be revealed soon. I’ve also finally decided to push forward with the second album – the sequel to Surviving on Borrowed Time. I had written and recorded …
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Be dark
I’d like to think that some of my lyrics paint a picture for those listening, reading, interpreting… When writing a song, I often have a vision of what the song could mean to the person sitting on the train, the person I’ve given a copy of the album to, the person scrolling through various YouTube …
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My Biggest Regret in Music
There are plenty of things I regret in music. I regret not safely backing up the original stems and early project files for some of the music I’ve released. I also should have taken more notes throughout the late 2000s and early 2010s of those recording sessions and even the guitar tabs and musical notations. …
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Some Audio Design and Production Tips
Here are a few valuable tips I have used over the last few of music production I figured I’d share. Do what suits you and find your own style, but this is what works for me and I’ll be sure to keep posting various things that I think may benefit aspiring amateurs and home-studioers alike. …
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Amusing Occurrences in Spain
I’ve been here yearly for the past three years and I think it’s safe to say I’ve adapted to the wonderful Kingdom of Spain, but there are some crazy facts and things I’ve noticed that need to be shared: Their is at least one night a week when fireworks will go off in a …
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Bucket List:: Amusing Budget Flight with Strangers? Check
It was the 14th of April and the Ryanair flight departed at 6am. Edinburgh to Alicante. I was sat on the aisle seat beside two middle age Scottish women with their daughters behind on the opposite side. Within a few drinks (they spent a good £50 in the first go) they laughed and bantered with me …
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