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First rule of XML club is "Never use text munging tools with XML".

Here's a case where I successfully used text munging tools with XML.

This song was written as part of the assessment tasks for MUSI221 - Songwriting for Contemporary Performance, part of my Bachelor of Music degree at UNE. This is a live take without any edits, and I use a looper (sooperlooper on linux) to replay the chords during the solo (the ending of the loop was a bit rough).

Melinda Reed (full disclosure: my partner!) is offering Piano lessons in Byron Bay (her studio is just south of town, in Suffolk Park). If you are in the area and looking for a qualified piano teacher with years of teaching experience, I would certainly recommend that you get in touch to organise a free first meeting.

This live recording is from an in-house concert I held on May 18th 2017 as part of my University assessment for MUSI121 - Foundation Studies in Musical Performance.

Is There Anybody Out There? (Pink Floyd Cover)

Reckless (Australian Crawl Cover)

Shape Of My Heart (Sting Cover)

Midnight (Joe Satriani Cover)

Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd Cover)

I use Open Source, GPL'd software for all my Audio and Video projects (and, well just about everything else, too). Here's a quick summary of what I'm using right now for Audio production and performance.

After doing some performance debugging on mysql running in a vm I found the mysqld service refused to start. The log files showed nothing other than it exiting with an exit code of 1.

Running mysqld from the command line (with sudo -u mysql mysqld -v) also gave nothing useful.

Finally I found a suggestion to run:

sudo -u mysql mysqld_safe --log-error=/tmp/mysql.log


The second of my two audition pieces for entry to UNE's Bachelor of music. SOOoooo much room for improvement but it got me through :-)

The Foggy, Foggy Dew is a traditional English folk song, this being the version created and popularised by Benjamin Britten. It is a somewhat cheeky tale of a love from years ago complete with thinly-veiled justification for following one's heart.

The first of my two audition pieces for entry to UNE's Bachelor of music. Still soooo much room for improvement but it got me through :-)

Lasciatemi morire is from Claudio Monteverdi's opera L'Arianna. It is Ariadne's lament at being abandoned by her love on the island of Naxos.

Huge thanks to Jason Barry-Smith who got me to this stage with a sum total of three singing lessons in my life!

One of my favourite out-of-the-way spots, a small cemetery on the edge of Lake Samsonvale. Stick around for the crash at the end - the only damage was three cable ties.

All shot with a Mobius camera on a home-built H-Quad, running a crius SE board with MutliWii 2.3.

My entry for the The Lotus FPV Scavenger Hunt #1

Some dusk/night FPV for both the ghetto HZ-Quad and the bixler2, birds in flight and other bit and pieces.