Archive for October, 2006



Zegarkus Alternative Guitar Tuning

I seldom leave my guitar in a regular tuning anymore. This tuning came about when I was in music school I developed tendonitus in my hands from overplaying classical guitar it was a very low tuning so it was very soft to play. It also found it to have a very haunting sound.
Here is […]

This is my first with purely electronic music. I downloaded a fruity loops demo to create my own music. This needs a major remix, it sounds quite poor. I was going to do more work on it but my hard drive crashed and I was unable to to recover the original files.
Eines Tages Download […]

Goodbye Love - 2002

This song was composed of bits of music that I had in my head for several years. When I fell in love with a girl about 7 years ago, all the musical bits came together. The original title was the name of the girl - but since we are no longer together - I changed […]

This is one of my first recordings that I have ever done. Though its very ameteurish I am still quite proud of it! Enjoy the clip attached below:
Song One Download

From my journal 06-Jan-2005
I was in a huge hall. Facing me there was a massive doorway, I could see the the 12 rulers of the world at the end of the hallway. There was a strange Christlike presence telling me to enter. Upon entering, I noticed trap door immediately in front of me that could […]

This is article is a personal versioning of my programming career. The first version of my programming life I shall call Geek 1.0. This version of myself I was very cautious, naïve, bookish. The second stage of my programming life I shall cleverly call Geek 2.0. This is the current state I am in […]

From my Journal 29-June-2006
I dreamt I was swimming in the middle of the ocean. I noticed a round floating object with raised nubs that looked quite old. I climbed on this object to give myself a break from swimming.
A strange feeling overcame me - this object was a mine! I leapt off of it and […]

Your life as a timeline

One of the most satifying self help experiments that I have done this year is create a timeline of my life. Though I have only have done this recently, I had the idea of doing this since my early twenties (I am currently 31 at the time of this post).
Upon constructing my timeline, i’ve noticed […]

From my journal from 29-Mar-2005:
I dreamed that I was walking from Mission Bay to work. The only difference was that everyone else in Auckland was too! The streets crowded with walkers going to work (no cars).
I noticed I was ‘finding gaps’ between slow walkers and passing them with a brisk jog. I was determined to […]

Programming is something you learn by doing. And doing over it again. And over yet again. It is not something you can master in 21 days. Which brings me to my point - its can be very difficult to learn even if you have good books […]