Verse and music on this page are slowly being transferred to different blogs, imaginatively entitled David Harley’s Songs (which opens to an index of the songs) and David Harley’s Verse, and in fact there’s already a whole more information there.  And my main blog now is actually the Wheal Alice blog, which is mostly focused on music. However, it might start to find its way back as I try to rationalize my output. :) If you’re only interested in the security-related stuff, you might want to shoot over to my Small Blue-Green World page or the Geek Peninsula page, which has links to most of my security writing.

Contact email: info[at]dharley.com

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

I suppose you could call this my vanity site (or one of them). It’s maintained as a resource for my music and for writing that isn’t (usually) directly connected to my former work  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 that may sound, you are honour-bound and legally required to ask me first: you can email me at info[at]dharley.com. 

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

More recent recordings (not commercial quality): as of 12th May 2014, the listings for this are somewhat out of date.

Scriptwrecked Sessions

Additional tracks from sessions in the early ’80s at CentreSound studios from which the ‘Sheer Bravado’ album was assembled. Some of these tracks (plus the three intended for ‘Diverse Brew’) were drawn on for the ‘Scriptwrecked’ album. Not in any particular order, and not all the tracks used are here.

Table of Contents

• 10% Blues
• Hands of the Craftsman
• Death of a Marriage
• Silk and Steel
• Coasting
• Scratch One Lover
• Soldier of Fortune (no MP3 yet)
• Rain (linking to a longer demo MP3)
• Soldier you come you go (no MP3 yet)

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)

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 now. 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.