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January 10, 2008

2008 Goals

OK. IN 2007 I got confirmed, collected data and wrote three papers, two of which are seriously being considered for publication and the third of which is with Phil being finished. I thought I'd have a go at setting some...
Posted by Hughie at 8:56 PM | Comments (0)

October 10, 2007

Update

OK, I have been very remiss in keeping this up to date but many things are on the main blog. A lot has happened, which I'll get to writing up over the next few days but I wanted to note...
Posted by Hughie at 9:54 AM | Comments (0)

July 11, 2007

Little catching up to do ...

Ok, so, here's where we're at: Recording: The album is made, being reproduced at home and pre-marketing has begun. I currently have 70 saleable copies sitting on my kitchen table and could have more except that the supplier of the...
Posted by Hughie at 11:38 AM | Comments (0)

April 20, 2007

I'm confirmed!!

Confirmation presentation went through just fine today. The panel seemed very impressed with it and the accompanying paper and all went smoothly, if a little over time because they asked lots of questions and had an interesting discussion. Most reservations...
Posted by Hughie at 4:38 PM | Comments (0)

March 29, 2007

We have a date!

Just got an email listing my confirmation seminar as April 20, topic TBA. I'll have to get the topic in to Leanne ASAP and send the paperwork to the respective officials. Steve and I have been developing the presentation for...
Posted by Hughie at 5:05 PM | Comments (0)

February 8, 2007

Moving ahead

Right, well the first draft of the confirmation document has been looked at and the only feedback is that although the exegesis looks fine, the performative aspect of the project needs to be more clearly defined and enunciated. This is...
Posted by Hughie at 8:25 AM | Comments (0)

January 22, 2007

Moving ahead

OK, I have sent some early drafts of the confirmation document to Steve - awaiting his feedback. It's coming on OK - fairly well structured now but needs fleshing out. Especially in a few places. Today I have to supervise...
Posted by Hughie at 9:26 AM | Comments (0)

January 11, 2007

Found the gap ...

Just been chewing though my literature/context review for confirmation. According to Steve, the main purpose of this at confirmation is to nominate the gap in the literature which the research will seek to fill. As of Tuesday, I have found...
Posted by Hughie at 8:48 AM | Comments (0)

January 2, 2007

Back to work

I've been reading a lot over the "break" and will focus January on the Confirmation document and on rehearsals for the accoustic gig. Most of the document is now written - but the literature review is the bulk of it...
Posted by Hughie at 10:45 AM | Comments (0)

November 15, 2006

Big leaps forward

Th questionnaire went live today! It's at http://polling.nationalforum.com.au/index.php?sid=4 and will remain there until the end of the year. So far I have posted it to CDBaby's notices and sent it to a heap of associates who expressed interest. Also notified...
Posted by Hughie at 4:23 PM | Comments (0)

November 8, 2006

The cold light of day ...

Well, I listened back to the recording of Lullabye last night and it was played as beautifully as I thought - though perhaps not edited as well as I would have liked. Have to revisit that today, and re-write one...
Posted by Hughie at 8:46 AM | Comments (0)

October 24, 2006

Getting there slowly

Spent most of yesterday tidying up loose ends like marking, looking after kids on a day off and paying family bills and that sort of thing. Very frustrating, that. This morning I have reworked my QUT Postgrad conference presentation (an...
Posted by Hughie at 11:21 AM | Comments (0)

October 23, 2006

Missing in action

Just realised I've only posted once in October! That's not good. However, it's because of the number of other things that have been happenning: kids' school holidays, conferences, teaching and marking, flu, a glitch with my anti-virus software and also...
Posted by Hughie at 1:20 PM | Comments (0)

September 22, 2006

Genre Benders missed out

Missed out on the Q-Music Showcase gigs. Got an e-mail to that effect on Wednesday PM. Really, that just takes pressure off. We can continue rehearsals towards some live shows and recordings later in the year or early next year....
Posted by Hughie at 11:49 AM | Comments (0)

September 15, 2006

Moving ahead-ish

Wednesday was hell. Spent all day re-submitting my request for ethical clearance and then re-submitting the re-submission (twice) into the approved forms. Hope it gets up. Wednesday night was the GBs' first rehearsal - and the potential drummer, Gil, rang...
Posted by Hughie at 3:14 PM | Comments (0)

September 8, 2006

Getting on with it

OK, I've now created a Genre Benders logo and a mini site with this site. http://www.genrebenders.com is registered with Yahoo! domains and forwarded to my sub-site. When I arrange hosting for www.genrebenders.com I will build a full site and get...
Posted by Hughie at 4:54 PM | Comments (0)

August 29, 2006

Returning to the fold

OK, I haven't blogged for a while, mainly out of frustration. However, I have made some progress and changed tack slightly, and it needs to be written up. Firstly, the damn Premiers' Smart State Application is in and, although I...
Posted by Hughie at 9:51 AM | Comments (0)

August 11, 2006

Growing frustration

Yesterday was more or less wasted riging people, missing them, waiting for calls back, arguing with thecomputer about why it had or had not sent an e-mail ... And then there was a leak in a pipe in the roof,...
Posted by Hughie at 9:55 AM | Comments (0)

August 10, 2006

Pleasing site stats

Just noticed in the site stats report that "Long for the Day 2006", the song I podcast in July, has been downloaded 23 times this month, but the podcast XML file has only been hit 11 times. Also, "State v...
Posted by Hughie at 4:37 PM | Comments (0)

Interesting event, that

Went to a seminar at QUT yesterday for my funding body, the Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation. Great stuff! Met lots of interesting and enthusiastic people, which is something I miss a lot when I'm stuck working at home....
Posted by Hughie at 10:11 AM | Comments (0)

August 8, 2006

Starting work today

Teaching at UQ this afternoon. This is the job I didn't want - got talked into teaching it - but we could certainly use the money. Yesterday was spent on odd jobs like preparing for today's teaching and setting up...
Posted by Hughie at 9:35 AM | Comments (0)

July 27, 2006

UPgrades and other distractions

Changed my CMS to Moveable Type 3.31 today - which has taken all day but seems to e working. This is something I have been avoiding for some time but the volume of spam is just killing me and MT...
Posted by Hughie at 3:20 PM | Comments (0)

July 20, 2006

A first time for everything

Well, today's the first day I've gotten up and not felt like working on the music. That could be because I've just spent two days talking to various peple about funding, legal implications, organisation of stuff ... or it could...
Posted by Hughie at 11:05 AM | Comments (0)

July 17, 2006

Starting to wory now

Looking ahead, I'm starting to wonder whether I have time to do everything I have to get done. It's just not happenning as quickly as I would have liked. Having to write that second document and being sick didn't help,...
Posted by Hughie at 12:23 PM | Comments (0)

July 12, 2006

It is Done!

Finally got the extra stuff QUT asked for prepared and submitted via e-mail today. Extra big thanks to Rhonda for her considered advice on the legal issues stuff and to my beloved Angie for help with the Risk Analysis part....
Posted by Hughie at 5:58 PM | Comments (0)

July 6, 2006

Struggling!!

I am hating pulling this Business Plan together for the QUT Research Committee! It's like pulling teeth trying to get me to even focus on it - there are so many other things I'd rather be doing. It's not hard,...
Posted by Hughie at 5:32 PM | Comments (0)

July 5, 2006

Coping with setbacks

Spent Monday working on piano parts and yesterday drafting my response to the Research Committee's request for more info. Did nothing musical at all yesterday and felt suitably grumpy last night. Have now drafted a legal text, which has been...
Posted by Hughie at 11:09 AM | Comments (0)

June 29, 2006

Provisional approval?

Got this e-mail yesterday afternoon: From: Kathy Scorah To: h8.brown@student.qut.edu.au Cc: sc.dillon@qut.edu.au ; 'Leanne Blazely' Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 3:35 PM Subject: RDC Reply: Stage 2 - Provisional - BROWN Hugh 5641497/IF49 Dear Hugh, Provisional Approval of PhD Stage...
Posted by Hughie at 3:52 PM | Comments (0)

June 19, 2006

How things happen

Jimmy Webb's book is a source of all sorts of revelation. Last night I got to the bit that discussed the way sleep can assist the creative process. Although I have always been sort of aware of this phenomenon, knowing...
Posted by Hughie at 9:28 AM | Comments (0)

June 16, 2006

Something to do

Today will be to broken up tospend productive time in the studio. I have already seen my Physiotherapist and have an appointment with a GP at 11.30 - to get a referral to see an orthopedic surgeon about my shoulder....
Posted by Hughie at 12:11 PM | Comments (0)

June 1, 2006

What a day!

Yesterday was one of those truly developmental days. Many things progressed in my head and towards the completion of my thesis. 1) Gave the final presentation of the project for my classmates. This was not exactly satisfying because I (once...
Posted by Hughie at 10:21 AM | Comments (0)

May 30, 2006

A steep curve

Well, I've gotten the song fully recorded but I hate it. The intro is ... tentative ... and, as Angie said, "It doesn't grab me". This is, of course, pobably partly due to the pain in my shoulder whenever I...
Posted by Hughie at 11:38 AM | Comments (0)

May 23, 2006

Moving sort of forward

Got nothing done yesterday on account of spending all day fixing Endote problems. Literally took all day to find and fix! And then the problem came back in the evening. But now it's right (I hope). This morning I've been...
Posted by Hughie at 2:25 PM | Comments (0)

May 11, 2006

Refocusing

I had a lot of fun the studio on Monday and Tuesday and have gotten the percussion and Mandolin parts down as I want them. However, the guitar part continies to frustrate - I keep wanting to change it! Yesterday...
Posted by Hughie at 9:57 AM | Comments (0)

May 3, 2006

Stage 2 proposal

Here's the text of my Stage 2 proposal (Word, 284KB). It's too big to just post here as text and contains some large graphics. For those who don't have or hate Word, here it is as a PDF (225KB). At...
Posted by Hughie at 11:10 AM | Comments (0)

Initial proposal

This is the text of the original proposal I put to QUT, which was successful in winning me admission and an Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation Scholarship: Area of Research: Digital music production and distribution. This falls within the...
Posted by Hughie at 10:36 AM | Comments (0)

May 2, 2006

Nearly over the hurdles.

The Stage 2 document is complete and will be submitted today. I have to complete the request for ethical clearance this morning and submit that also. Then is is (hopefully) bureaucratic plain sailing and I can get into the actual...
Posted by Hughie at 10:45 AM | Comments (0)

April 18, 2006

Fixing the basics

Having gotten through the methodologies assignment and then Easter, I thought I'd spend today cleaning up a few things and preparing for the next stage. That means adding a "robots, noindex" meta tag to this blog, which will help prevent...
Posted by Hughie at 11:11 AM | Comments (0)

April 12, 2006

Keeping going

Today's mission, quite simply, is to clean up some loose ends and make sure I do something constructive. Gotta submit the assignment and turn up to Alan McKee's lecture. I'll also see if I can finally knock over that UQ...
Posted by Hughie at 11:18 AM | Comments (0)

April 11, 2006

Done and dusted

The KKP601 assignment is finished. It has been read and commented by its eventual assessor and those coments built into the next draft. Most of them were rather favorable, so I'm expecting to pass. In other news, CDBaby have been...
Posted by Hughie at 4:17 PM | Comments (0)

April 5, 2006

Continuing progress

The assignment is about 2/3 done, now. Will send it for some more fedback ahead of today's meeting with Steve. However, before I can do that I will have to get some kind of respnse from my e-mail programs. When...
Posted by Hughie at 10:00 AM | Comments (0)

April 4, 2006

Working steadily

The hurdle assignment is now about half done. It's coming along OK after some very valuable feedback from Steve about what I had left out - plus a heads-up on where to find some great stuff on "deep insider research"....
Posted by Hughie at 10:05 AM | Comments (0)

March 31, 2006

Back on deck

Haven't quite finished the course for UQ but I've put the ball in their court so I'll have some time to get back to this. Feeling much refreshed after hitting the wall yesterday. This morning was devoted to the UQ...
Posted by Hughie at 1:45 PM | Comments (0)

March 27, 2006

Getting back on track.

OK. The international football tournament is over and the UQ Business course is almost finished (meeting today with Bernard and Dave). Gotta get back into the swing of PhD-ing. Angie's job application is also due today. SO. Next hurdle is...
Posted by Hughie at 10:55 AM | Comments (0)

March 13, 2006

Annoying complications

Just when I thought things were getting more straightforward, two things to piss me off: 1) Telstra disconnected my phone! I spent a day talking to my ISP about why there was no connection before figuring out that (although there...
Posted by Hughie at 2:11 PM | Comments (1)

March 9, 2006

Horror from within!

I have just been brought to the realisation that my research is largely informed by critical theory. That is, I want to use it to change the world (well, one step at a time). :-) This is rather personally confronting...
Posted by Hughie at 8:59 PM | Comments (0)

March 2, 2006

Endings and beginnings

Today's mission is to finish and lodge the AIRS assignment. I have to spend some time acclimatising my daughter to her new day-care facility and sorting out a few other organisational things, but it will be a relief to have...
Posted by Hughie at 8:15 AM | Comments (0)

February 27, 2006

Organisation

Today is to be devoted to following up on the orientaion messages - most of which concerned the value of getting started early and having clear goals, milestones and relationships. I hve just secured access to Portia, which tells me...
Posted by Hughie at 9:34 AM | Comments (0)

February 23, 2006

Orientation

OK, today and tomorrow are all about attending the orientation program at Gardens Point. I *still* haven't finished the AIRS assignment - but at least I'm now down to the last question in it. It's taking a lot longer than...
Posted by Hughie at 8:29 PM | Comments (0)

February 22, 2006

Disappointments and promising things

Right. Still haven't knocked over the AIRS assignment. It's fiddly and time-consuming. Simple, but time-consuming. Of course, it's probably going to help turn up lots of great literature on various subjects, but right now I'm swimming in good stuff to...
Posted by Hughie at 9:48 AM | Comments (0)

February 21, 2006

Tuesday lecture

OK, got most of yesterday's list done. Didn't quite finish the AIRS assignment - will do so today - and still haven't found an IT supervisor. Very disappointed to discover that the eBook of the mVine case study costs money...
Posted by Hughie at 8:25 AM | Comments (0)

February 20, 2006

Monday soreness

Right. Big weekend of football and coastal holidaying. Got nothing PhD-related done. Still have several admin things to take care of: 1) send MOU to UQ co-supervisors (Phil and Rhonda) so they can officially come on board. 2) continue the...
Posted by Hughie at 8:12 AM | Comments (0)