Welcome to my homepage. As the top level of my domain I am using it as a hub for linking to my various points of presence on the web. It also includes some semantic spice that I hope will develop into something interesting.

My on-line personas

Blogging

• My old blog: Not updated much these days
• Studio Spoon: My current blog about making music

Social

• Google Profile: Google+ etc. My main social outlet
• Facebook: I only use this for friends and family plus a few groups
• Tsu: A new kid on the block that pays the advertising money to users. Join up with this link for a share. See my blog for my thoughts
• Twitter: Not used much
• Friendfeed: An aggregation of my updates. Got bought by Facebook, but not killed off yet
• LinkedIn: Business networking. Maybe I'll find a use for it one day

Music

• Youtube: I post a few music videos
• Soundcloud: Music I have made
• Musofinder: A place to hook up with other musicians. Got me in a band
• Bandmix: Another place to find musicians
• Musomap: Map-based musician finder
• Equipboard: Share what music gear you use

Media Consumption

• My old book list
• Goodreads: Current reading
• last.fm: What I have been listening to
• Bandcamp: Music I've bought from the artists on this cool site

Cryptography

I've been interested in encryption for some times. I have a GPG public key that can be found in various places

• Key details: I welcome encrypted email
• Biglumber: Designed to help people meet up and share keys
• Keybase: Alternative to existing ways to share keys

Other stuff

• Endomondo: My exercise log
• Del.icio.us: My link collection
• Opensteetmap: My user page on this project to create open maps. I did some mapping years ago
• Slashdot: Hangout for nerds. Not visiting as much as I used to
• Stack Overflow: Q&A sites
• Wikipedia - My user page
• Github: A place for programming projects when I have some

Shameless Promotion

Various services I use where I get something if you join up with my links:

• Giffgaff: UK mobile phone provider that pays out to users. Get free credit with this link
• Dropbox: Get extra storage when you join
• Artistworks: On-line music school. I'm in the Paul Gilbert Rock Guitar school. We each get an extra month free when you join
• YouGov: Surveys that pay
• Lastpass: On-line password safe to keep you secure

I'm interested in the technology of Bitcoin. You can get very small amounts using some of these sites, but it's enough to play around with:

• Bitcoin Faucet List: Lots of 'faucets' that pay you small amounts of Bitcoin, mainly for entering a captcha. You have to disable your ad-blocker for those sites
• Coinbase: On-line wallet to store your Bitcoins
• Xapo: Another wallet. You get extra from some of the faucets if you use this one

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