Many years ago I was working with an executive coach from the Australian Institute of Management. He was coaching me on a key transition in my growth as a manager of other people. He related a story to me about a newly promoted VP he had been working with – let’s call him Larry. Larry…
This is an old photo but wanted to post a pic of how the desk flight simulator used to look back in 2012. There are 3 27″ DELL U2711 monitors up top and a 22″ touchscreen DELL monitor below. The system is running DCS A-10 simulator which is an amazing sim with incredible fidelity and realism. Just…
August 11th, 2017 First Solo Flight San Carlos Airfield KSQL San Carlos Flight Center Cessna 172S N236SP
Nothing is ever as simple as first seems. Although my new Wireless Cat Feeder has been operating brilliantly, the cat was still often waking us up for pre-dawn breakfast. Although I would grab my phone from the bedside table and hit the ‘Feed Cat’ button, the cat was unable to grasp the concept that food was now…
We have been looking after a cat for quite a little while now. He is a sweet, gentle Russian Blue with a very good nature, however he has a habit of waking us up with meowing and scratching at 4am to tell us he wants his breakfast. We made a number of attempts to find…
A little while ago I was interviewed on the radio here in Australia about ways in which people are using their phones that the tech pundits never anticipated. I spoke about the phone increasingly becoming an intersection point for the real and virtual worlds; a kind of remote control for more and more things in your…
A year or so ago I was given a Revell model of the USS Voyager (thanks Rick). While I don’t have the patience and attention-to-detail for model kits, I had been looking for an Arduino project and thought this might be a nice kit to consider a multi-mode lighting system controlled by Arduino. I’ve tinkered…
I had been considering this project for a while: the ability to send a link to someone they can use on their smartphone to open our front door. Useful for deliveries or when friends or family come over while you are not home. For example I recently had a friend come and stay while we…
Finally had a nice sunny day to take my Arducopter for it’s first flight! It is not as stable as I thought it would be; most of the flying time I had it in ‘loiter’ mode which attempts to maintain a position based on GPS and altitude (using either barometer or sonar). Even so as…
I have been playing around with SiriProxy which provides a mechanism to override spoken commands to Siri on an iPhone 4s. Normally when you talk to Siri your iPhone sends the voice packets off to an Apple server which interprets them into words and then tries to interpret what you mean. It then sends a response back…
I’m a self-confessed geek and curious about everything; I enjoy trying new things in a wide variety of fields.
My interests run from flying, sailing, music, electronics, astronomy and software to travel, hiking and camping.
I’m a management consultant specializing in digital business, change management, innovation, leadership and business ecosystems.