• 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.