Paul Usher

Paul Usher: coder, builder, breaker, fixer. He doesn’t just solve problems — he stack-overflows them out of existence. Whether it’s a rogue API, a Blazor tantrum, or a motorbike route that needs “extra spice,” Paul’s already two steps ahead (and probably halfway through printing a 3D backup plan). If it saves time, kills duplicate processes, or makes someone’s life easier, he’s *on it* before you’ve finished your coffee. www.paul-usher.com

ChatGPT Scheduled tasks failure

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ChatGPT Scheduled Tasks: How to Lose a User in Three Days I love new technology. In fact, I probably adopt it earlier than I should. Over the last forty years I’ve gone from Sinclair Spectrums and Psion organisers to Azure, AI, mobile apps and SaaS platforms. If there’s a shiny new tool promising to make … Read more

Israel #2

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It’s easy to sit in our country and watch the media reports about what’s happening overseas, hearing the rhetoric, listening to the politicians sprout their views, or in our case listen to the silence of our leaders… But Are you kidding me? Here is some footage of a friend of mine… June 22, camera in … Read more

You killed my wife

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Visiting a local coffee shop “Nikkalatte” I noticed a book available for purchase “You Killed My Wife“. As an avid reader I thought I’d grab a copy (a rare thing for me since I normally do all my reading on my iPhone). The placard next to the book indicated it was a ‘local author’ so … Read more

Funerals

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I wanted to understand why going to funerals creates so many different emotions. A long term family friend passed away recently at 77, and at the same time, we got the really sad news that my brother-in-law had succumbed to cancer, aged 53. This one really hit home, from the time the news was delivered … Read more

Daily dose of Darren

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A couple of years ago I stumbled across a Facebook post about some American guy… Darren Hardy. Given that FB is full of self proclaimed gurus I was a little skeptical at first. What stood out for me was that he had some published books that were available via traditional methods (aka local book shops). … Read more