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I’ve had an article I wrote for work picked up by a few blogs recently – the UK is gradually waking up to the fact that endemic use of cookies (and similar technologies such as flash cookies) may not be such a cool idea and that the widespread use of this stuff is not great [...]

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I’ve had to remove the in-page audio player temporarily, as it seems that some browsers don’t respect the autobuffer=”false” attribute on the HTML5 audio element. What this means is that everyone who visits my site has been downloading ALL the music I have been giving away, simultaneously, whether they listen to it or not – [...]

Publishing anything (and it seems, especially music) on the internet is a lot like shouting into the wind. I wish it weren’t so, but the universe wasn’t created to listen to me (or you) rant. Wish for the day: I wish everyone would read, watch or listen to something new and random on the internet that [...]

It’s a bit of a shame that I only get limited amounts of time to muck around in the studio, but that is definitely what the Christmas break is for (well, apart from spending time with the family, walking the dog, catching up on paperwork etc…). Here’s a new jazzy groove with some laid back [...]