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Don’t Write Long Books Until You’re Famous.

While that epic thick novel may look great on your bookshelf, showing what an dedicated and accomplished writer you are, it could be limiting your books exposure to a very small subset of readers. I kind of laughed at this … Continue reading

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Please don’t read this if you are in the EU.

This site probably uses cookies and might store some information about you using them. I don’t really know and don’t really care, but if you are accessing it from Europe then it’s (and therefore I’m) likely not complying with EU … Continue reading

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Continuous Floatation in Wineries

There are two common methods to clarify juice before it goes into fermentation. Firstly there is cold-settling, where you just leave the juice alone for several days and wait for the clear juice and lees (the juice particulates) to separate. … Continue reading

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Technology for Everyone.. Are You Sure?

Seriously! Does everyone at your company really need a computer or a mobile phone? Giving a computer or phone to any member of staff should always be thought through very carefully and is not the cut-and-dried decision you think it … Continue reading

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Protecting your Work. Is it Even Worth The Effort?

Have you ever wondered if you own the Kindle eBook you bought? Well to cut a long story short, you don’t. With a normal eBook downloaded onto kindle or a book with DRM enabled from another eBook provider, you have … Continue reading

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Flip, Flap, Flop! – Solari Fix.

About 13 years ago, before this web site, and back when I used to be called boznz.com, I put out a simple project to reverse engineer some soft-flap display units (brand-name Solari). My clients CEO had bought 20 of them … Continue reading

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Poisoning the Brand!

Again, a short, and hopefully obvious post on why you should be very careful on what you blog about, and especially what you post on social media. Humans disagree on everything, sometimes fervently, and we have all seen or heard … Continue reading

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On-Time and Under-Budget. Where some IT projects are Probably Going Wrong.

This will be a short post, and not technical like my usual ones, it is about many of the seemingly hundreds of failed IT projects out there, where companies have been let down by the big IT companies and consultants. … Continue reading

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The Summer of Reasoning Book 1 – The Phoney War – Now Free!

As part of the refresh to my on-going paperback book covers, to try and make them a bit more true to their story and more appealing, I have decided to give away the first part of the trilogy “The Phoney … Continue reading

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Removing Some Very Un-Corporate Baggage

In preparation for the shut-down and hand-over of the outgoing Bulls-i Winemaking system at Indevin I thought I would go through and maybe remove some of the more inappropriate comments and messages so as not to offend the next guy … Continue reading

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