Index to Words & Music Pages

[10th April 2013: verse and music on this page are slowly being transferred to different blogs, imaginatively entitled David Harley's Songs and David Harley's Verse, and in fact there's already a whole more information there. After tidying this page and the other pages here, most of these links will be to the new sites rather than to the other pages. If you find those interesting, you might also like the Shropshire Blues site, which is more about Shropshire than blues.]

Here’s a close-to-full list of the other Small Blue-Green blogs:

• Anti-Malware Testing (AMTSO, anti-virus product testing, the universe and everything…)
• Check Chain Mail and Hoaxes (Information and commentary on hoaxes, spam and scams.)
• Dataholics: the IT addiction (Ravings of a security-obsessed internaut, with the occasional cartoon…)
• David Harley (Guess who this is about.)
• David Harley on Wikipedia! (Surprisingly accurate. But I have corrected a few things since I realized it was there.)
• David Harley’s Songs (Song lyrics, recordings and demo recordings, related info.)
• David Harley’s Verse (This site is going from bad to verse.)
• Earth laughs in flowers Flower photos from Heyjude
• ESET blog (This is my primary outlet for security blogging.)
• Geek Peninsula PR stuff, information on articles, conference papers etc.
• Mac Virus (Focused on Apple – Mac and iOS – malware and security, and by extension other mobile platforms.)
• Parodies Regained (Parody and pastiche.)
• Small Blue-Green Photos (Small Blue-Green Photos mostly from Heyjude)
• Small Blue-Green World (A business-oriented view into the Small Blue-Green empire…)
• Urbanicity (Architectural photos, mostly from Heyjude.)

[23rd February: informational update to the 'floorsinging for beginners' tipsheet.]

[2nd August 2012: updated "Songs without Music"]

[Updated 29th July 2012]

I suppose you could call this my vanity site. It’s maintained as a resource for my music and for writing that isn’t (usually) directly connected to my ‘real’ job  as an IT security author/consultant. (If you’re actually interested in the security stuff, see the links at the end of this post.)

Just to be clear, none of this material is in the public domain, and all rights are reserved. I hope you enjoy listening to/reading it but if you actually want to use it in any commercial context, unlikely as it may sound, you are honour-bound and legally required to ask me first: you can email me at david.a.harley@gmail.com. Or via Small Blue-Green World, which is me wearing my business head.   

David Harley
Small Blue-Green World/AVIEN/Mac Virus
ESET Senior Research Fellow

Recording Sessions:

Diverse Brew Sessions:

1.  One Step Away From The Blues
2.  True Confessions
3.  Heatwave

Scriptwrecked Sessions

• 10% Blues
• Death of a Marriage
• Hands of the Craftsman
• Silk and Steel
• Coasting
• Scratch One Lover

Sheer Bravado Cassette:

1. Long Stand
2. Speak My Heart
3. The Weekends
4. Dives and Lazarus
5. The Butterfly (slip jig)
6. Paper City
7. Sheer Bravado
8. View From The Top
9. She’s Gone
10. So Much For Romance
11. Circle
12. Blues For Davy

Songs Without Music:

• Over The Hill
• Thomas Anderson (now includes MP3: not commercial quality though)
• Let Me Lie Easy (now includes MP3: not commercial quality either)
• Snowbird
• Odd Job Man

Demo Recordings

Quick and dirty recordings of songs I hope to revisit and spend more time on a better version. Home-recorded on BOSS digital gear which I hope to have time to learn to use properly Real Soon Now.

Just one song – Bootup Blues – there at the moment, though two of the recordings added to the Songs Without Music page also qualify and will probably get moved shortly:

• Thomas Anderson
• Let Me Lie Easy
• Let me lie easy (unaccompanied demo) 
  

Settings of poems (unaccompanied demo versions)

• Bredon Hill (Housman-Harley)
• The Carpenter’s Son (Housman-Harley)
• When I was in love (Housman-Harley)
• Farewell to Severn Shore (Housman-Harley)
• The Pilgrim (Yeats-Harley) 
  
• A Ballad for Katherine of Aragon (Causley-Harley)
• The Seasons in North Cornwall (Causley-Harley)

Other Writing

Miscellaneous Prose

• A Fairy Tale (and not, therefore, anything to do with AV testing)
• Vanity Press (or The Glass Bead Game Revisited) (the joys and sorrows of working with major publishers)
• A Front Row Seat in the Security Theatre
• 24/7 Ranting

Verse or Worse

• I-Level
• Fairy Tale #3
• Teleworker
• Song of Chivalry
• Perfect Tense

Folk Resources

At the moment, this page consists of a floor-singer’s tipsheet a number of us compiled in the late 1990s, and a reference to a later version – not sure where that comes from, but it wasn’t me. As I seem to spending a lot of time with old folkies these days, it may be that other things might find their way onto this page in due course.

Parodies Regained

…could have been a separate page here, I suppose, but it isn’t, for historical reasons. Anyway, here’s a list of what’s there at present:

• A Torrent of Abuse (Thoughts on passwording that Paul Simon may never have had)
• Convoy II (60s hit re-imagined in a slightly different social context)
• Make Mine A Snowball (what would Xmas be without The Snowman?)

Security-related publications

Security-related publications aren’t kept on this site at present. Most of my recent papers are available or linked from the ESET resources pages including white papers, conference papers, and articles for external publications and sites. Mac and other Apple-related resources are mostly kept at the Mac Virus site. Some other papers and information on some of my security books can be found on the Small Blue-Green World blog page.