David Harley

@DavidAHarlely
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Former IT security author/editor/researcher. Now writing songs, verse and books on music and history. https://davidaharley.substack.com/
Websitehttps://whealalice.com
Musichttps://davidaharley.bandcamp.com/
Bookshttps://www.amazon.co.uk/kindle-dbs/entity/author/B001HPS1NK
Substackhttps://davidaharley.substack.com/

Probably my last ever single… And as unsuccessful as all the others!

https://davidaharley576.substack.com/p/the-road

The Road

I bade farewell to the life of the wandering professional musician in the 1970s, so my song The Road [link to the .WAV on Bandcamp, in case you feel like buying it!] is definitely not autobiographical, so I think of it as a story that also happens to be a song.

Inspiration Point
The oligarchy wants full control of what we watch and read.
Proof that I’m not a nature photographer. NB the photo is truncated: I'm not that bad! https://davidaharley576.substack.com/p/red-squirrel
Red Squirrel

Or why I'll never be a real nature photographer

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Batemans

Preparation for a musical project including some Kipling…

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The Writing Addiction

Nathan Hatch commented in a Substack note on a recent article about having written a book, ‘

Inspiration Point
Baez, Newsom and Amazon

Speaking as a woke lefty liberal (and proud of it) I can certainly think of reasons to *boycott Amazon.

Inspiration Point
The Prisoner's Dilemma.

Bizarrely, I found myself catching the tail end of a show that seemed to be an implementation (or variation) of the Prisoner’s Dilemma. (The Inner Circle is the show.) I’d never really thought about games theory in the context of game shows!

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Anything to save me from the grind of actually finishing the album…

https://davidaharley576.substack.com/p/new-silver-jug-band

New Silver Jug Band

The next time you see this, it might be attached to an album…

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No autumn leaf is safe from my camera.

https://davidaharley.substack.com/p/autumnal

Autumnal

Two photographs from Munich in 2010, not that it’ss particularly obvious where I was.

(Un)Selective Symmetry
He’s doing his best to make us like one of his failed ventures.