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.

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.

Goose: from paddock to plate

Plate with slices of dark meat with potato mash and garden salad

When I woke up this morning, I looked down into the valley – as I do most mornings. And on that pond were floating two big Canada Geese.

Deer discovery

Deer track in mud with hand next to it form size

I thought that Alpacas had pads with toes and toes with toenails. What I saw was however rather a pair of hooves.