A different view of Riverhead Forest

Wide unformed tracks through bush-like forest

There are parts of Riverhead Forest that are less forest, meaning less plantation and almost resemble more of a park or a native bush.

Early Morning Hunting in the valley

Bluish and foggy dark view up the hill with dark tree silhouettes against a lighter blue sky.

Hunting trip down into the valley on an early morning before sunrise with fog presenting a challenge.

Take your time and think

Can we afford to take a guess or take time and risk the possibility that we run out of time?

Trying to make an impression?

Interior of private jet with champagne, laptop

There are quite a number of people on Linkedin – and generally on social media – that are trying to push a certain impression.

More autumn than summer

Looking down into a foggy valley with trees poking out of the fog

When I woke up this morning, the Kaipara valley was filled with fog and it looked and felt more autumn than summer.

Time to divest and move on

Moving away from Facebook and Messenger. Towards Telegram, Bluesky and Mastodon.

Switching to Bricksbuilder for Webdesign

Graphs showing annotion from where load times have halved

I am now rebuilding all websites with Bricksbuilder and find it great and fast. Loading times for Pukeatua Farmnstay website halfed.

Amazon AWS outage

modified AWS logo

Two days ago Amazon AWS had a massive outage. What surprised me was seeing the countless posts on social media (which are cloud based), complaining about it even days later.

NetAlertX

NetAlertX Screenshot

Great result with my contribution to Netalertx code optimisation.Made the app snappier with half the CPU use compared to before.

Welcome 2024

I am looking forward to the challenges and progress we will experience. Before I charge back into business, I’ll be down South for a hunting trip. Moving, doing some exercise in beautiful landscape.