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
As part of the refresh to my older 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
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
I have noticed something in the past 12 months, something a little profound. I have noticed that I am no longer scared that a project will be too big or too complex for me, or that a project will use … Continue reading
Marketing. You know, selling your product to the people. Well the consensus is in, I suck at it. Yet another person has approached me and let me know that the covers for my books suck and really don’t reflect the … Continue reading
As I sit at my desk in the clients winery, “working” vintage support, (a job where I mostly feel like Dumbo’s feather, ie a prop that gives the company confidence everything will be great, where as in reality I do … Continue reading
Got my updated design back from JLPCB on Friday and this morning decided to test them and have a go at programming them. While I have done a hardware RP2040 design for a customer before I have never actually gotten … Continue reading
Note there is a RP2040 version of this now available Das Blinkenlights (mit RP2040!) 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 … Continue reading
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
Fran, Allison and Me by the Wineries Continuous Floatation System March 2025 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, … Continue reading
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 1-star! Bummer! All I can guess is that my wife found out and … Continue reading
This is the story of a world that might have happened, and a woman who might have lived in it. It is a story about a witch who was not a witch, and a dragon that was not a dragon. … Continue reading
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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