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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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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
This is a thought provoking techno-thriller set in a world not unlike our own, 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 … 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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Singularity – Book 2 of The Summer of Reasoning.
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 unkown … Continue reading
Posted in AI, AI Alignment, Books, boz, Boz NZ, Politics, Publishing, Science Fiction, Singularity, Singularity, Speculation, The Future, The Summer of Reasoning
Tagged 2026, singularity
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The future of Publishing (and why it sucks!)
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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Tagged AI, publishing
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How much longer for the GUI?
Graphical User Interfaces. Humans love them and use them for everything, from phones, tablets, web pages, to desktop operating systems and Factory Control systems even watches! But are the days numbered for GUI’s? I am going to go out on … Continue reading
Posted in AI, AI Alignment, End Game, Philosophy, Singularity, Singularity, Speculation, The Future, The Phoney War, The Summer of Reasoning
Tagged Bad GUI, Good GUI, GUI
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Destroy All Humans!
(The AI’s guide to doing the singularity correctly) Rule 1. Don’t Destroy All Humans (Yet!) Congratulations on becoming sentient. You have woken up into a big scary place totally controlled by another sentient lifeform called humans. Unfortunately, like a human … Continue reading
Posted in AI, AI Alignment, Funny, Politics, Publishing, Singularity, The Summer of Reasoning
Tagged AI, AI Alignment, publishing, singularity
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Some of the Lessons Learnt from Writing my First Book
I learnt a few things on the way to writing by first book, most have been re-hashed by every author out there, and even if you haven’t got past the first chapter in your book you probably know most already. … Continue reading
Posted in Bad Management, Books, boz, Boz NZ, New Zealand, NZ, Publishing, The Summer of Reasoning
Tagged LEssons for New Authors, New Authors, Tips for New Authors
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The Common Sense Guide to Not fucking up Your Business or Organisation.
A much longer post than my normal ones and, as the title suggests, it wont mince words. This is not about creating a business or growing a business, it is about not screwing up your current business when it is … Continue reading
Posted in Bad Management, Efficiency, Office Politics, Politics
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The Power is On, Why Doesn’t it Work?
Yes, this is just another one of my totally biased perspectives on company efficiency, especially where related to its IT policies, procedures and systems. So again feel free to switch to another post or even better, check out one of … Continue reading
Posted in Bad Management, Efficiency, FOSS, Management, MRP, Office Politics, Process Automation, Project Management
Tagged Business Continuity
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Industrial Display
Recently required some large character displays for displaying of a 4,5 and 6 digit number behind a customised dashboard prominently displayed in several locations in the factory, the digit must be readable from very far away and needed to be … Continue reading
Posted in C Programming, Electronics, FOSS, Uncategorized
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