It would appear that Hammy Havoc has teamed up with the lovely folk over at @soundcloud to bring you ask.hammyhavoc.com!
Ask a question using your vocal chords and Hammy will reply using his, because let’s be honest; Text based Q&A are outdated now. If your question is answered then you will get a tweet from @hammyhavoc telling you that your question has been answered.
Good news, everybody; I have the domain name splitanatom.com back!
After threatening to take a certain CEO and their firm to court, yesterday things finally started taking a turn for the better after a conference I had with their CEO. We decided to settle the dispute outside of court after much intervention from my lawyer. I won’t disclose details, so don’t ask.
It has been a real fight to get splitanatom.com back, this fight began in January and is something that I would not like to go through again any time soon. We only got this back several hours ago and thus @fanboycraig, @iwrestledahammy and I have been hard at work today putting together a new site to showcase our various skills and what we’re capable of.
Whilst we’ve not yet had chance to put too much back up on the website yet, we can already start to offer a fair number of our services once again.
I am of course a software developer and music producer, not to mention several other things, but both myself, @fanboycraig and @iwrestledahammy will be taking care of any web design work that you may need doing.
@fanboycraig is a talented graphic designer and has a gift for creating unique and memorable logos, he really is a true creative wonder. We also have three avid photographers on board the S.S. Split An Atom who will cover your back across the UK in terms of on site photography and image manipulation.
Split An Atom offers a lot in terms of CAD/CAM CNC; Two years ago, Timehammer and I built a CNC milling machine by hand and it all went from there in terms of manufacturing through the use of computers. Not only do we design products, we also manufacture them out of various metals, ceramics and plastics. Our speciality is jewellery when it comes to manufacturing. Custom bling for everybody!
We can find a price to suit every wallet whether you’re a corporate entity, a band, a brand or even a hobbyist or a teen with a dream.
I honestly thought that I was going down with this ship several months ago, but now I’m more confident than ever that this is going to be one amazing year for us all and I hope that we can bring you some real innovation as we have previously done already.
We’re open for business, so why are you still lurking around on my blog? Take your backside over to SplitAnAtom.Com!
Your friend,
Hammy Havoc
We’ve sold almost 120 t-shirts of our Bloody Medic, Now! design since the Clikyz.Com relaunch just a single month ago. Several minutes ago we reached our first 1,000 likes on the Clikyz.Com Facebook page. This was a fresh Facebook page when we relaunched a month ago as we originally started a ‘group’ several years ago before the ‘like’ phenomena came about.
We are eternally thankful for all of your love and support. This simply would not have been possible without your support and encouraging words over the last few weeks.
The money from the sales of t-shirts will be going back into Clikyz.Com to bring you more sexy products and towards the costs of touring the UK later this year in promotion of my debut album (The Withdrawal).
There is still 25% off of our t-shirts and we still have plenty of stock so feel free to pick up a sexy t-shirt today. Free shipping still applies; The price you see is the price you pay.
The next wave of Geek Royalty invites are going out later; This is our VIP club where you can beta test products before everybody else. Make sure to keep an eye out in your email inboxes for these as that is where they are going; Not to social media profiles. I’ll be sending more of these out every day; Keep checking those electronic mailboxes, my fellow geeks!
Filter coffee and incense,
Hammy Havoc
As some of you may know, I originally started Clikyz.Com several years ago as a social network whilst I was in high school. It wasn’t aiming to compete with MySpace or Facebook, but we wanted to offer an alternative: A convergence point of a collection of APIs supplied by the various social networks.
There were simply too many social networks to choose from and there wasn’t an easy way to enjoy the content on all of these brilliant websites in one place which is when we decided to bring everything together in one meta social network where adding somebody on one social network added them on all of the accounts they had added to Clikyz.Com, whilst this was a killer feature, the killer feature was being able to enjoy all of the content you created on all these networks in one place.
Clikyz.Com never had any advertising on the site because we believed that advertising alienated our audience and would render it unable to compete with some of the premium desktop applications that were being developed at the time. Within the first month, we had over 20,000 users and this was simply thanks to word of mouth through people inviting their family and friends. Days after that, we hit 50,000 users.
As time went on and we found ourselves with more and more users, the site began to get very heavy on resource use and this is when we needed to find a way to fund the network as well as give ourselves some form of salary. We looked towards supplying products that we had designed ourselves as well as music downloads, this worked extremely well for several months.
Somewhere along the line, due to the resources necessary to run the network and the interest in what we were doing to fund Clikyz.Com, we made the jump from social network to online store only. This was a decision that I made with Anna Lowe due to the ever changing API systems which made it somewhat difficult to remain on top of the latest changes with a team of only four individuals, only two of which (One of them being myself) tweaked code on the site.
We originally sold 52 different products worldwide, all exclusive to Clikyz.Com and of our own design: Everything from t-shirts to pendants to comic books. These were extremely popular; We shipped these products to a total of 18 different countries, something that we are still very proud of.
That was several years ago and somewhere along the line, that circle of friends drifted apart due to personal reasons. For a long while I had to put Clikyz.Com to the side and pretend that it simply didn’t exist in order to not let my emotions overwhelm me. Everything that Clikyz.Com was in both software and product had a little piece of us all within it. I even considered relaunching Clikyz.Com as a social network at one point, but realised that the software was now extremely vulnerable to security exploits and I would have to begin coding from scratch.
Dusting off boxes of hard drives and binders, I decided it was time to return to Clikyz.Com. There is a song lyric I would like to quote which was written by my personal assistant (@iwrestledahammy):
“And if we should get lost on our path,
We’ll take a walk along a winding road”
It has been a long and winding road back to normality, but I’m now feeling strong enough to take up that name of ‘Clikyz.Com’ once again and bring you something new and different.
I view this as a complete rebirth of Clikyz.Com; New products and new faces, complete with a new outlook on life. Clikyz.Com lives on in name alone, we are not returning to developing social convergence software, but we are taking a new approach to the clothing range.
Having different people to work with has been a huge benefit to me and I would like to extend a warm thank you to both @fanboycraig and @iwrestledahammy for being there for me over the past year and contributing to my various projects. They will continue to contribute and will become familiar faces across the various projects that I am sure you are growing familiar with.
Over the last month, I’ve been hard at work finishing my music and working on some extremely exciting projects and it is with my great pleasure that I bring you the new Clikyz.Com as well as our first new product which is available to purchase immediately.
"Bloody Medic, Now!", New From Clikyz.Com
We no longer intend to bring data together in one place, but to do something more meaningful: Bringing together human beings in any manner by any method. Clikyz.Com is the convergence of human beings and their ideas.
As always, our products are manufactured within the United Kingdom and packed with care. And to answer the question before somebody asks: Yes, we still ship worldwide!
Please remember to share Clikyz.Com with your friends because your clicks are what makes sure that this is as successful as it can possibly be. I’ll be seeing you all on the road soon after I’ve released my music and will be bringing even more Clikyz.Com products to you.
So why are you still here? Go and get your Clikyz.Com 100% unisex t-shirt now!
Phonograph cylinders and trouble,
Hammy Havoc & The Clikyz.Com Team
Though I’ve been promoting Wheatus so much in the physical world and on the last remaining IRC servers of the world, and I have been able to see the results online, it isn’t quite enough to perform an action and just see a consequence; There is no human interaction and I feel like the part of me that enjoys human interaction is very neglected. I don’t want to just be an observer anymore. To be honest, life has felt like one giant video game for the last month or so, especially creating music and indirect interactions with people.
I really miss you all so much. I told you all that I would come back with music at 100,000 tweets, but right now, I’m not able to do that. I’m actually really rather depressed. Each of my actions mean nothing without you all. You are what has propelled me towards this point in time and this conclusion. What is the point of having a piece of music, a product or anything else if there is nobody in your life to enjoy it and give you feedback about where you are heading with the project? Social isolation in moderation can be a positive thing, though social isolation for weeks and months on end is an extremely negative thing.
I’m coming back to Twitter, and you’re all going to support me emotionally by just speaking to me and connecting with me on a personal level. I don’t expect sympathy, I just expect conversation; A simple ‘hello’ or ‘I love you’ means the world to me.
I have come to the conclusion that I will actually finish this music more quickly if I’m amongst you all in the digital and physical world. This isn’t a decision that I have come to with ease and I hate to disappoint, but I put my mental wellbeing before my projects. I’m expecting to give you all 2002, A Great Year For Calendars in the next week or two, but I need some social and emotional reassurance.
I was actually wondering if some of you would hate me for neglecting you and then coming back empty handed, that’s why I’ve come back with at least something.
My personal assistant (@iwrestledahammy) went home on Friday, life has been pretty lonely since then. My productivity has more or less plummeted as well, and you know how I’m all about that sweet, sweet productivity.
Currently, I’m planning on waiting outside of the Apple Store all day with some friends when the iPad 2 is released in the UK and playing some acoustic songs throughout the day outside of the store. It’ll be a great opportunity to see some friends and it’ll be a great opportunity to give myself some much needed musical exposure and a large dose of human interaction. Maybe then I’ll feel a little more confident about releasing my music if I’ve gotten some feedback from the local folk regarding my new material.
Much to my surprise, you’ve all been talking about me ridiculous amounts in my absence and I’ve actually gained almost 7,000 followers since I’ve been gone even though my tweets have been days, sometimes weeks apart. In the time that I’ve been away, I attracted quite a lot of followers on Twitter via IRC that were from Japan. Several of whom are currently unaccounted for and that is making me feel pretty negative.
Eight years ago, I think I said something that will remain true for the rest of my days:
“Everything means nothing unless I have you.”
Although that was referring to a lover and a lot of people mocked me for it at the time for years afterward, I’ve now realised that the people that make everything meaningful are every one of you.
This isn’t the first time that I’ve been depressed and it probably won’t be the last, but I can guarantee you that 48 hours from now when I’m interacting with you all again, I know I am going to feel so much more cheerful and so much more positive. You all mean the world to me.
The longest I have ever felt depressed was two years and that was solved with the help of a handful of you out there reading this; I started feeling better within hours after spilling my thoughts out to somebody. If you know what will make you feel better, do anything it takes to make it happen. Only you know what you need and more often than not, it’s only yourself that can give it to you.
I would like to say a huge thank you to those of you who have sent donations to me whilst I’ve been absent. You’ve paid for fresh sets of guitar strings, MIDI controllers, travel and food for me during these emotionally draining times. Thank you all so much. I am truly forever grateful to anybody who supports what I do either through buying products or making a direct donation after downloading some open source software from me.
I’m excited for you to hear 2002, A Great Year For Calendars. I truly am.
I love you all so incredibly much. I will never leave you again, my friends.
Ghetto blasters and gauntlets,
Your friend,
HH
Throughout my entire life, I’ve had this obsession with ‘being special’ and ‘not being special’. You can see it in my lyrics, you can see it in my musings and you can even see it in my art. You will even see it in my new music from time to time.
The truth is that we’re actually all special though you may not realise it, you may not even realise it tomorrow or next week, but at some point in your life, there will come a time when you finally realise that the rest of the world isn’t ‘more special’ than you are and that you aren’t a voiceless nobody. I’m only just beginning to realise that this is actually the reality we live in. We all have our place in life, it’s just a case of finding it. Though you may be good at something, that doesn’t mean you may necessarily be happy doing it. We are conditioned to feel insignificant and small by the media who pressure us into feeling a certain way and buying certain products that make us seem ‘trendy’ or ‘attractive’ when in actual fact, mankind survived for millions of years before the voice in the corner of the room started giving you instructions.
We don’t need to worship people that don’t acknowledge your existence. You don’t even need to worship another human being or an entity with no evidence to support the existence of it. Live for the now and die happy without fear of what comes next, because chances are that there isn’t anything else than this.
You don’t need celebrities or idols. If this is the apex of our existence then we have made a huge error by pushing buffoons into the spotlight. I believe we are capable of so much more and that the people you see on your television are not the special individuals, but are merely puppets created to separate you from your money. Think of all the wasted man hours lost through the medium of television or taking an interest in a celebrity who you will never date. What makes you think they will whisk you away when they won’t even acknowledge your existence because they are so caught up in their own affairs? We could have found the cures to countless diseases and made a near infinite number of discoveries in these millions of wasted hours every day.
Instead of asking yourself why you are not special, start asking yourself why you are special.
Walk the walk and you will soon be running it and eventually going off of the metaphorical beaten track to lead the way for the rest of humanity. A lot of people will try to trip you up on your marathon to your goals, but with a little planning, you can avoid them completely.
Realise that you are being brainwashed to take interest in people that you don’t know and people who do not care about you. Realise that this is all a distraction so you don’t notice the bigger picture with who is in charge and what is going to affect your children as well as the children of your children.
Don’t act tomorrow, act today. Tomorrow may be the day when everything changes completely and you can’t give your children the future that they deserve. You could find a cure to a disease or a new fuel, perhaps you could even help somebody who already has yet doesn’t have the means to publicise it?
So what if you have not got a boyfriend or girlfriend on February 14th? Count yourself lucky that you’re not being drawn into the capitalist regime. Love is selfish and love isn’t between a man or a woman or between two men and two women.
Love is about interest, care and affection between a group of people that we call a ‘family’. A family isn’t about genetics, nor is it about wealth. A family is a group of people who care for one another through the good and bad, yet also care for each other unconditionally without any preconceptions. A family is a group of people who love each other and that group of people are special to have one another. Life isn’t about seeking out a mate with which to further your genetic code, nor is it about accruing as much wealth and as many possessions as possible. Life is about being happy and acknowledging that you are a powerful being even by yourself.
You have a voice that other people will take notice of and that other people will support if they agree with what you are saying. If you don’t like something, don’t carry on being anonymous, put a name to your opinion and views and others will follow. The same applies to cowards who create websites aimed to upset and cause fury in that of others yet don’t put a name to it as they are cowards.
Celebritatem. The Latin word for the condition of being ‘famous’. You are all celebritatem to me. I recognise you all and know the majority of you on a first name basis and realise this: I love you all. You don’t need another human being to satisfy your needs because you have all of these capabilities for yourself and as we enter into a post-human society within which it is possible to live life without the need for physical intimacy. You all have your talents and you all have your weaknesses, yet in ‘families’, the weaknesses mean nothing. We’re curing disease and finding solutions to problems every day and you can be a part of it if you pull yourself away from the idiot box and the propaganda it warbles throughout the day and night.
Ale and wenches.
H
Your surroundings are not just where you live or the objects in your home; Your surroundings are a combination of people, conversations and trust. Your surroundings influence who you are, what you do and what happens to you as a consequence of your actions.
I learned the hard two years ago when I was blackmailed for an entire year by a group of individuals with regular violence towards me and threats against people I love. Everybody has a circle of trust, be it between your parents or your siblings or your closest friends. You don’t expose sensitive information to people whom you do not know. You wouldn’t tell the world your bank PIN number and then post a Foursquare status detailing your location, so don’t declare information that can be used against you online.
I was lucky: They may have been smart, but I was smarter in the end. Physical and psychological games are the worst, but you too can triumph over them. I kept who I loved safe from harm and she didn’t believe it because I did such a good job, but that’s okay because I’ve learned that I am better off without her and the bad experiences of violence and psychological torment have made me a better person with a more balanced view of the human race.
Showing your love does not make you weak, but showing it in front of the wrong people can be exposing the greatest signs of weakness that they can exploit for their own personal gain or just to cause you general harm.
With Valentine’s Day coming up, another modern capitalist ploy aimed to generate money for a group of corporations in my opinion at least, be careful who you show love in front of. Don’t make the mistakes I did and show the world at large who you have feelings for because somebody will always be taking note of this. I’m not saying ‘do not trust anybody‘, I’m saying ‘do not trust everybody‘. Keep your friends close and in the know, but keep those who you know that mean to cause you problems far away as possible. Block them, avoid them, get as far away as possible from them both online and in physical form. There is no ‘real world’, the internet is tied into the real world in every possible way. These are real people talking to you, these are real people observing everything that you do.
My tormentors were not met through an online medium, they were met through every day circumstances, but in the latter months I ended up being tracked on an hourly basis through social media.
Be careful in what manner you use Foursquare and social media services which track your location; Only post them just before you leave or when there are many people around you. Because let’s be honest, why would anybody be interested in where you went and for how long? People will learn your routines and they will find you if they have the motivation to do so: Graphing trends is not difficult, especially given the data scraping applications available to download for free.
If you are currently being blackmailed by a group of civilians or even just one other civilian, go to the police before they ask you to do something that breaks the law and your case takes on a quite different format.
I’m still healing from a lot of negative experiences over the course of my life, but I’m okay with the fact that they happened because I know that I’ve lived more than a lot of people ever got the chance to. Feeling scared or in pain is horrible, but it’s better to feel scared than to feel nothing for a century.
My sincerest apologies for not tweeting much lately; I am limiting my Twitter usage to stop me procrastinating. To put the rumour to sleep: I am not dead. I have no intentions of becoming dead at any time in the near future. My aim is to release my debut single at 100,000 tweets: 2002, A Great Year For Calendars.
Why 100,000 tweets? So that I actually get things done. I miss you all terribly and I can’t wait to get back amongst you all and start having great conversations again. Truth is, I’m a little nervous about putting a piece of music out there permanently, but I should be back within a few days and hopefully you’ll have thought that the wait was more than worth it.
Thank you all for allowing me this chance to make music such a huge part of my life, I really do love you all. Keep on following, keep on tweeting and I’ll be sure to repay you with the same love and care. I owe you all a hug and a high five as well as some beers. You don’t owe me a thing, carry on living, laughing, loving and making me smile.
I’d also like to thank my French and Swiss fans who have gotten my older material some radio play in their respective countries on independent radio. Exciting stuff. It’s also strange to see my older material available to download on torrent sites. Don’t panic! I’m not giving you a scolding; I’m happy that you’re sharing and enjoying. My older material will be reincorporated into new songs and rerecorded at a later date seeing as you all love it so much. Of course, the quality was awful on it, so I’m especially surprised to see some of this actually get radio exposure as well as enjoyment.
Supernovae and Maine Coons.
Your friend,
Hammy Havoc
For a long while, I kept putting off trying out Dropbox after being unimpressed with previous file synchronisation solutions in the past. I’ve now been using Dropbox for several weeks and I love it! Would I go back to using anything but Dropbox? No!
I’m now using Dropbox in unison with ChronoSync and it makes a great combination; I’m currently keeping fonts in sync with all of my Macs as well as those of my colleagues via a shared folder.
Several of us are even using DropboxPortable so that we can keep our entire font libraries and various other resources with us wherever we are.
Shared folders across a wide variety of OS and mobile devices make this a great system. I’m currently utilising Dropbox for Teams which gives both myself and my colleagues a nice amount of storage to work with; It makes projects a piece of cake!
The future of Dropbox is probably in licensing the software itself rather than the storage. Corporate entities like that of my own have a strict policy regarding the duplication of client data on a server outside of our own network which makes using Dropbox a slight pain in the backside as Dropbox uses Amazon S3 for storage. Don’t get me wrong, I love Amazon S3 and think that it is one of the most truly fantastic innovations of the last five years, but I can’t use it in conjunction with Dropbox in a way that I would love to due to company policy.
We may see appliances (Dropbox branded servers) or maybe even a Dropbox OS that will allow you to use your own storage facility whilst also keeping the ability to use the free and paid storage through Amazon S3 as a failsafe to fall back on just in case your private network is unavailable for whatever reason.
If Chrome OS has taught us anything, it is that an operating system does not have to be fully featured in every way in order to pull off the tasks that it was designed for. An OS dedicated to file management with the genius of Dropbox would be great and allow it to run on Linux plug computers if a user desired to do so.
I’d be willing to pay anywhere up to US$1000 for a licensed corporate Dropbox solution in either software or hardware depending on how fleshed out it was in terms of functionality. Some people may call me crazy, but I see the potential that Dropbox has and it may one day become the next SAN your office uses.
If you’ve not already done so, try out Dropbox by clicking here; You will get a free 2gb account along with a bonus 256mb for using my link. Another thing to note; In a few weeks, ten individuals will be invited to a pre-release shared folder containing a several track preview of my upcoming album, so remember: You’ve got to be in it to win it.
X-ray specs and cheap pornography,
Your friend,
HH
The Jupiter EP from Wheatus was released on December 23rd 2010 on a pay what you like basis.
If you care about music, you need to hear this record.
If you care about the state of the music industry and want to hear what somebody is capable of doing with no intervention from dinosaur businessmen with zero talent, you need to hear this record.
If you are looking for a record that may just completely change the way you look at music, you need to hear this record.
We’re so eager for you to hear this music that the complete six song EP is available completely free of charge so that everybody can have the opportunity to listen to this. Share the site with your friends and tell them to download the EP even if they are not necessarily the type of individual to listen to rock. Everybody needs to hear this record.
If you enjoy the EP, please donate a few dollars if you can, it would be very much appreciated and will allow for there to be a third volume in the EP series as well as the ability to release future records and play shows for you all.
Pop, Songs & Death: Vol. 1 and 2 are available to download via www.wheatus.com, you can also preorder the double vinyl set from the site; A deluxe gatefold 180g edition. It is a limited run of 500 pressings, so get ‘um whilst they’re hot, because once they’re sold, these are going to be like gold dust.
Those who donate US$5 or more will be able to download a digital comic book that accompanies the track Bridges To Jupiter, along with two acoustic bonus tracks. Those who give donations of US$25 or more will receive a limited edition CD/DVD set. This set consists of a CD featuring the six song EP and two acoustic tracks along with two additional surprise tracks exclusive to this set, The Jupiter DVD, a printed full colour 20 page comic book of Bridges To Jupiter and one of four never before seen pieces of original Wheatus art.
My review of The Jupiter EP will be coming in a few days, I may even do a YouTube video review for it. The whole world gasps at the thought of Hammy actually using YouTube.
If you have not yet checked out Vol. 1 of Pop, Songs & Death, then you can download it from www.wheatus.com at the same time as Vol. 2. Both are very different EPs and are a bold new musical direction for Wheatus, it is unlike anything they have ever done before.
If you’re expecting the followup to Teenage Dirtbag, you will find it here, guaranteed. You will find songs better than anything released previously by Wheatus. This is without a doubt, the best record yet and certainly my favourite record in the entirety of 2010.
Much love,
Your friend,
HH
Welcome to the latest iteration of HammyHavoc.Com!
As you can probably tell; I have finally left my old domain name (hammysworld.co.uk) after almost a decade. I decided that it was time to move on and improve SEO to some degree. For the next few months, the old domain will redirect to this one.
A big factor in deciding to do this move was because most people end up going to ‘hammysworld.com’ which has zero affiliation with me and is about hamsters and I don’t think many people will get the Wayne’s World reference.
I’ll be sharing my thoughts and feelings here as well as any news that is related to me. Heck, I’ll probably even review things from time to time, but most of all, this is going to be a portal to all of my current projects more than anything; So make sure to click the links and explore what I’m doing.
All my love,
Your friend,
Hammy
