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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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With AI You Need to Think Much Bigger!

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

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I guess I’m not so good at this Marketing Thing!

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

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Yet another boring small project (with an interesting back-story)

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

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Das Blinkenlights (mit RP2040!)

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

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Das Blinkenlights!

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

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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 Open For New Business

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

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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 1-star! Bummer! All I can guess is that my wife found out and … Continue reading

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New Book – A Level of Consciousness

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

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