tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186983752011-04-22T06:10:56.128+01:00Independent Music Blog"Life Has Surface Noise"http://www.blogger.com/profile/01862921953533458852noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18698375.post-34192934170255647792008-12-17T13:30:00.005Z2008-12-17T14:11:45.388Z<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UODH7o3ewO0/SUkIBfNoxJI/AAAAAAAAANk/PShe-ZEDiao/s1600-h/popular-on-the-internet.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 285px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UODH7o3ewO0/SUkIBfNoxJI/AAAAAAAAANk/PShe-ZEDiao/s400/popular-on-the-internet.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280760859720205458" /></a><br /><br /><br />The Dublin adventure is over. <br /><br />My apartment (with it's awesome fibre optic 50mb connection ethernet wall socket) and dodgy appendix have gone the way of a Wall Street investment banker. <br /><br />Although Dublin is where most of the action is just now career-wise (Google, YouTube, Facebook, Yahoo!, Microsoft, etc) I am currently looking into returning to Scotland seeing as that's where my girlfriend and most of my friends are.<br /><br />While I don't post regularly, I do read .NET magazine writer <a href="http://www.bigmouthstrikesagain.com/">Gary Marshall's blog</a> weekly as it is funnier and smarter than most of the nonsense I write. That reminds me, I must get a .NET subscription for Christmas so I don't have to pay £5.99 per issue!<br /><br />I am still as passionate as ever about music. In view of the current climate I know I made the right decision 18 months ago to step back from Pet Piranha and take a break. In hindsight, the mistake we made was trying to run a collective as a hobby but calling it a record label. <br /><br />It's heartening to see a healthy music scene in Scotland because it has some great labels from Fence to Chemikal, plus I love seeing the likes of Frightened Rabbit and Twilight Sad doing well. <br /><br />I'm currently in Donegal finishing off some website articles, updating some old site code, building a new website and trying out the odd SEO experiment. <br /><br />Inbetween I'm playing guitar and writing songs although I'm having these weird latency issues between my Yamaha GO46 preamp and my PC. I wonder if using Vista 64-bit is the root of the problem? Soon as I can afford it I'm going to buy an Orange Amp and Cabinet and finally get recording. <br /><br />See you in 2009.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18698375-3419293417025564779?l=petpiranha.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>"Life Has Surface Noise"http://www.blogger.com/profile/01862921953533458852noreply@blogger.com1