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Das Blinkenlights!

Probably the only German word I know, and, quite by accident, became the title of my last hobby project, a project to give some bling to my boring local RPI-based rack server without impacting the power budget too much. Like … Continue reading

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Making it Real!

I was an early converter to e-readers with a kindle keyboard in 2010. Living in Smallville, NZ and having to pay $30+ for the latest sci-fi books (if/when the shop had them) it was a no-brainer to me and I … Continue reading

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2025, My Final Vintage and a change in direction

I developed the original Bulls-i winery management program for Indevin Ltd back in 2008 when they were just a small winery based in a single site in Blenheim, and only processing other client’s grapes into wine. Back then there were … Continue reading

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When life gives you a lemon..

My first book has been on sale at the Amazon kindle store for over a year, and although nobody ever bought a copy it somehow managed to get its first review, and it was 1-star! Bummer! All I can guess … Continue reading

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New Book – A Level of Consciousness

I am happy to say I have finished my second book A Level of Consciousness which should be available in all the usual on-line e-publishing platforms from today 16-Nov-2024 for the awesomely cheap cost of US$2.99 / NZ$4.99 Buy or … Continue reading

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Why you should write for yourself.

Genres are a weird thing. Think of them like a Venn diagram, a bunch of circles some of which may overlap, others that don’t. Genres are important because as a writer they define who will and who will not be … Continue reading

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The future of Publishing (and why it sucks!)

Although I am not actually a believer that the current LLM ‘s will lead to sentient AI systems, their improvements and their inevitable mixing with, and amplification by, other technologies is likely to bring us pretty close in the few … Continue reading

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Destroy All Humans!

(The AI’s guide to doing the singularity correctly) Rule 1. Don’t Destroy All Humans (Yet!) Congratulations on becoming sentient. You have woken up into a big scary place totally controlled by another sentient lifeform called humans. Unfortunately, like a human … Continue reading

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New eBook – The Summer of Reasoning

I am delighted to say I have finished and published my first eBook The Summer of Reasoning. Buy or Sample > Amazon / Other It was a long journey, I think I started writing snippets and chapters for the last ten years, no … Continue reading

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Industrial Display

Recently required some large character displays for displaying of a 4,5 and 6 digit number behind a customised dashboard prominently displayed in several locations in the factory, the digit must be readable from very far away and needed to be … Continue reading

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