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Removing Some Very Un-Corporate Baggage

Posted on 11 March 2025 by admin

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!

Posted on 10 March 2025 by admin

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!

Posted on 8 March 2025 by admin

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)

Posted on 5 March 2025 by admin

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!)

Posted on 26 January 2025 by admin

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!

Posted on 11 January 2025 by admin

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!

Posted on 17 December 2024 by admin

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

Posted on 25 November 2024 by admin

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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New Book – A Level of Consciousness

Posted on 6 November 2024 by admin

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 →

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Why you should write for yourself.

Posted on 3 November 2024 by admin

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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END GAME – Book 3 of The Summer of Reasoning

Posted on 14 April 2024 by admin

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 →

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Singularity – Book 2 of The Summer of Reasoning.

Posted on 14 April 2024 by admin

The Second book in The Summer of Reasoning series is set in 2026 and dives straight in where the last book The Phoney War left off. The Dietrich Research Centre has now emerged on the world stage from an unknown … Continue reading →

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The future of Publishing (and why it sucks!)

Posted on 15 January 2024 by admin

Although I am not actually a believer that the current LLM ‘s will lead to sentient AI systems, their improvements and their inevitable mixing with, and amplification by, other technologies is likely to bring us pretty close in the few … Continue reading →

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