Ninety-ninety Rule Of Project Schedules: The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.
Category Archives: Boz NZ
Random Emails from Strangers are Still Nice to Get.
The one positive aspect from having a blog site, and being an author is the occasional person who decides to write you an email out of the blue. The first time it happened was back in 2017, I had written … Continue reading
Harry Potter and the Junior Prompt Engineer
I’ve been trying to stay off the Internet and for the last week and get myself back into some novel writing. Unfortunately I have hit a bit of a plot road-block in my next serious “Boz” novel, so I’ve decided … Continue reading
Posted in AI, Books, boz, Boz NZ, Funny, Philosophy, Science Fiction, Singularity, Speculation, The Future
Tagged Harry Potter, Holodeck, Prompt Engineering
The Timeline for my First Book is Now Playing Out!
Just like it takes more and more energy to get closer to the speed of light, LLM looks to be currently trending a similar asymptote curve, requiring more and more compute and data to get to the maximum human level … Continue reading
Posted in AI, AI Alignment, Boz NZ, New Zealand, NZ, Politics, Singularity, Speculation, The Future
Tagged AGI, AI.2027, ASI, Daniel Kokotailo, Dwarkesh Patel, Intelligence Explosion, LLM, Scott Alexander, singularity, The Phoney War
Continuous Floatation in Wineries
There are two common methods to clarify juice before it goes into fermentation. Firstly there is cold-settling, where you just leave the juice alone for several days and wait for the clear juice and lees (the juice particulates) to separate. … Continue reading
Posted in boz, Boz NZ, Bulls-i, C Programming, Indevin, MRP, Pascal Programming, Process Automation, Programming, SCADA, SQL, Uncategorized
Tagged Allison Droguett, Clarification, Continuous Floatation, Factory Automation, Fran Monsalve, Grape Receival, RFID, SCADA, Touchscreen, Winemaking, Winery Automation
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
The Summer of Reasoning Book 1 – The Phoney War
When her genius grandfather dies, Alexa Martin’s simple life is changed immeasurably, taking her from a humble history scholar to owner of a cutting-edge technology and research company. Along with the smartest and brightest of her university friends they embark … Continue reading
I guess I’m not so good at this Marketing Thing!
Marketing. You know, selling your product to the people. Well the consensus is in, I suck at it. Yet another person has approached me and let me know that the covers for my books suck and really don’t reflect the … Continue reading
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
New Book – A Level of Consciousness
I am happy to say I have finished my fourth book A Level of Consciousness which should be available from the 16-Nov-2024 for the awesomely cheap cost of $0.99 if you are in the Amazon Kindle Eco-System or $FREE if … 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
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 unknown … 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
