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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
When her genius grandfather dies, Alexa Martin’s simple life is changed immeasurably, taking her from a humble history scholar to owner of a cutting-edge technology and research company. Along with the smartest and brightest of her university friends they embark … 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
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
Posted in Boz NZ, Bulls-i, C Programming, Electronics, Indevin, MRP, MySQL, New Zealand, NZ, Other Programming, Pascal Programming, Programming, Project Management, SQL, Villa Maria
Tagged C Programmer, contract work, Delphi Developer, Delphi programmer, Electronics Design, end of project, full-time, indevin, New Zealand, part-time, SQL administration, SQL Development
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New Book – A Level of Consciousness
I am happy to say I have finished my fourth book A Level of Consciousness which should be available from the 16-Nov-2024 for the awesomely cheap cost of $0.99 if you are in the Amazon Kindle Eco-System or $FREE if … Continue reading
Posted in A Level of Consciousness, boz, Boz NZ, Politics, Publishing, Science Fiction, Speculation, The Future
Tagged a level of consciousness, boz, boz nz, ebook, epub, kindle, publisher, publishing
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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
Posted in Publishing, Uncategorized
Tagged a level of consciousness, amazon, kindle, self-publishing, the algorithm, the summer of reasoning, writing
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END GAME – Book 3 of The Summer of Reasoning
The third and final book in The Summer of Reasoning series dives straight in from the action where the second book Singularity left off on 2027. The Dietrich Research Centre is now the most powerful company on earth, releasing science-fiction … Continue reading
Posted in AI, AI Alignment, Books, End Game, Politics, Publishing, Science Fiction, Singularity, Speculation, The Future, The Summer of Reasoning
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