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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.
Category Archives: Management
The Utopian and Dystopian Future of Vibe Coding.
Lets face it, being an expert in a particular programming language is coming to an end. In the past two months I have used my usual languages, C, SQL and Pascal, ones that I guess I am kind of “expert” … Continue reading
Posted in AI, AI Alignment, Efficiency, Electronics, Politics, Programming, Singularity, Singularity, Speculation, The Future, The Summer of Reasoning
Tagged Chip Printers, Future of Programming, Vibe Coding
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Please don’t read this if you are in the EU.
This site probably uses cookies and might store some information about you using them. I don’t really know and don’t really care, but if you are accessing it from Europe then it’s (and therefore I’m) likely not complying with EU … Continue reading
Posted in Bad Management, Boz NZ, Efficiency, Funny, Management, New Zealand, Politics, Speculation
Tagged Annoyances!, Cookies, GDPR, Safety, Security, Tongue-in-Cheek
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AI Can’t Take Over Soon Enough For Me.
Like many people I want to live a rich life, see the people around me happy, see humanities finest technical innovations, science, arts and sports thrive and mankind to somehow grow in this infinite universe we have. However, while I … Continue reading
Posted in AI, Bad Management, Books, Efficiency, End Game, Funny, Philosophy, Politics, Publishing, Science Fiction, Singularity, Singularity, Speculation, The Future, The Phoney War, The Summer of Reasoning
Tagged Tongue-in-Cheek
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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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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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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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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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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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Dumbo’s Feather
Disney Lawyers Please Look Away! This title pretty well sums up my job description as a contractor at the Indevin winery for the last 12 years. Yes there were long nights, moments of rapid development, followed by the long tail … Continue reading
Posted in Efficiency, Indevin, Management, MRP, New Zealand, NZ, Process Automation, Project Management, Uncategorized
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Spocks Brain
There was an episode in the very first star trek series called “Spocks Brain” in which aliens use a machine to boost their intellegence and transplant out Spocks Brain into a computer. In the episode the skill to do this … Continue reading
Posted in Bad Management, Funny, Uncategorized
Tagged lifestyle, random
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