Polythene Sky is a track from my album "The Things She Never Owned" - you can buy it now on iTunes. [youtuber youtube='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Euvd-XOYTE']

You can now buy my album "The Things She Never Owned", released under the name Whtsqr. It's available on iTunes and Google Play as a digital download. You can buy a physical CD (and a digital download in lots of formats) from Bandcamp. You can preview all the tracks by clicking on the CD cover image below.  

The meteors that fell on Russia this week should remind us all that our time alive and on planet Earth is fleeting at best and could be ended at short notice. You'd better make sure you're doing the things you want to do now, rather than waiting for some imagined perfect future time when you'll get around to it.

I just finished mixing a song called "Nothing Good Will Come of This" - a cautionary tale for all you boys and girls out there in the big scary world. Click the orange play button to have a listen. I hope you like it! Please share it on your Facebook profile, and leave a comment with your thoughts! [soundcloud id='63091669' autoPlay='false' color='#ff7700']

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I've had a song ("No Mystery") included on a CD. It's called Emu Parade. It contains a selection of music donated by artists from around the world (but mainly from Melbourne, Australia) with a dual purpose: 50% of profits will assist Stewart Anderson and Jennifer Turrell train and maintain an autism service dog for their 5-year-old daughter Tallulah. 50% will go to Autism Awareness Australia. The CD was put together by my old friend David Nichols, who also did the artwork for the CD, and the video for No Mystery. You should go and buy a copy.

Since I rebuilt my web site, I've been using some interesting statistics tools that show information about visitors to my web site. Back in the day, pretty much the only traffic you'd see was real people using web browsers to actually look at your site. These days, the amount of traffic coming from spiders (automated "bots" that crawl the web indexing its pages) is phenomenal. Sadly, these days I get about as much traffic from spiders as I do from actual people. In addition to the spider-bots, there's also a lot of traffic from other kinds of malicious bots whose only job is to crawl the web looking...

I saw this in the paper today. It tells us that Australia's own Gina Reinhart is now officially the world's richest woman. Hooray! Her fortune now stands at almost 30 billion dollars. For people like this, how much is enough? And what does she personally do that makes her worth this sort of money? Does she dig holes? Carry ore around? Serve customers? Do the books? Does she do anything useful? I know some will argue that she generates wealth for others by being an astute operator, and thus providing jobs and paying taxes. That may be so, but does that really make her worth $30 billion? That's...

Light and sound both travel in waves. As the frequency of the sound waves change, so does their pitch. As the frequency of light waves change, so does their colour. The frequencies we hear in modern music are typically oriented around a frequency we refer to as "concert pitch" - typically this is 440Hz and the note is the A above middle C. 440Hz is an arbitrary number though, and different people have different reasons for preferring other values. There are people who strongly believe that 432Hz is "deeply connected with nature" and that 440Hz is bad for us. Throw into this mix the idea that...

From this article in The Age, we learn that the Australian public has an "insatiable appetite for narcotics". Of course we do. Humans have been using mind-altering drugs since pre-historic times. A significant factor in our rapid evolution as a species has been our willingness to experiment with substances we find that have an affect on us - this is how we found both medicines (like aspirin) and hallucinogens (like psilocybin mushrooms). Increasingly, as human consciousness has evolved we have become more complex, to the degree that we now have entire branches of science dedicated to improving...