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When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default, it can never be recovered. - Dorothy Thompson.
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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
Posted in Bad Management, Efficiency, Funny, IT Failures, Management, MRP, Office Politics, Other Programming, Politics, Project Management, Speculation, Uncategorized
Tagged cell-phones, Factory MRP, mobile platforms, Touchscreens, we-enabled
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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
Posted in A Level of Consciousness, AI, Politics, Publishing
Tagged a level of consciousness, AI, DRM
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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
Posted in C Programming, Electronics, Indevin, Repair, Soft-Flap Display, solari
Tagged Repair, Soft-Flap Display, solari
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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
Posted in Bad Management, Office Politics, Politics, Speculation
Tagged business, reputation, Social Media
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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
Posted in boz, Boz NZ, C Programming, Electronics, ESP32-C3, IT Failures, LoRa, Motor Controllers, MySQL, New Zealand, NZ, Other Programming, Pascal Programming, Project Management
Tagged boz, boz nz, boznz, C Programmer, Delphi Developer NZ, Delphi programmer, Delphi Programmer NZ, Electronics Design, Electronics Design NZ, Pascal Programmer, SQL administrator, SQL Developer NZ
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The Summer of Reasoning Book 1 – The Phoney War – Now Free!
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
Posted in A Level of Consciousness, AI, boz, Boz NZ, End Game, Publishing, Science Fiction, Singularity, Speculation, The Future, The Phoney War, The Summer of Reasoning
Tagged Blenheim Library, boz, boz nz, End Game, National Library of NZ, singularity, The Phoney War, the summer of reasoning
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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
Posted in Bulls-i, Funny, Indevin, IT Failures, Uncategorized
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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
Posted in AI, Fill-Level Sensor, Uncategorized
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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
Posted in A Level of Consciousness, AI, boz, Boz NZ, End Game, Publishing, Science Fiction, Singularity, The Phoney War, The Summer of Reasoning, Uncategorized
Tagged End Game, singularity, The Phoney War, the summer of reasoning
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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
Posted in Bulls-i, ESP32-C3, Indevin, Uncategorized
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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
Posted in blinkenlights, RP2040
Tagged ChatGPT, RP2040
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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
Posted in blinkenlights, Uncategorized
Tagged bling, blinkenlights, Front panel, LEDs, PIC
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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
