“Have you ever wondered how artificial intelligence could transform your journey from a beginner to an expert in a fraction of the time?” Picture this: learning a new skill used to mean months or even years of hard work and dedication. But with the advent of artificial intelligence, that timeline is being dramatically shortened. AI…
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The Rising Demand for Data
This week’s article about global data consumption and the predicted future amount has some large numbers. The demand for data, especially driven by video traffic, is on the rise. It’s projected that global data consumption over telecom networks will nearly triple by 2027- from 3.4 million petabytes (PB) in 2022 to 9.7 million PB in…
Practical tips for professionals with everyday tech
Welcome back. Today the modern working professional is probably using 5 different devices each day without being consciously aware of it. From your mobile phone, laptop, desktop, tablet, headset, earbuds and smart watches and countless more. Our daily lives are full of these amazing gadgets. Here are five practical tips for everyday professionals to enhance…
Final Week
As we head into our final week before leaving for Nepal, all packing is done, vaccinations received and travel documents finalised. Exercise training is reducing and with Auckland’s current stormy weather, it appears our final weekend may have little to no chance of outside walking. No matter I can use it for some strength training….
Coastal Views
Whatipu coastal path (Owanawanui Track) in West Auckland. Day walk as part of our training going to Nepal and the Himalayas. Starting the walk from the Huia Road side, we walked up the gravel road past Mt. Donald Mclean Road to the start of the bush track. The track itself has been upgraded to a…
Gravel Ride
New Years Day 2023, took advantage of completing a training ride in Waikato New Zealand rural location. Using the gravel bike, a friend and I were able to get off the beaten track and explore some mining sites. As part of our training for the trek to Nepal, part of my own training involves participating…
Trekking in Nepal
After a 3 year delay due to the COVID 19 pandemic, I’m pleased to announce I’ll be heading off to Nepal in early 2023 along with a couple of friends. It’s been a long time having to wait, with intrepid anticipation, and now we are close to finally going. There is still plenty to do,…
PC Build
PC Build Finally found some time to showcase my pc build.After waiting several months over Covid lockdown in 2020, all my pc parts finally arrived. Parts: CPU Intel Xeon E5-v2678 2.5GHzTwin Fan-RGB CPU coolerUnknown Chinese Branded 800W PSUMotherboard HUANANZHI X99-F8 ATX form factorInstalled Physical Memory (RAM) 32.0 GB DDR4 2x 16GB SticksWindows 10 ProDeep Cool…
Tech Build Coming Soon…
Tech Build Coming Soon…Due to an unforeseen shipping delay So I thought it was about time to showcase my tech knowledge and experience since I’ve blogged about how I’m using technology with my running. I’m currently waiting for my PC parts to arrive for a new home desktop build. While they are on there way…
Winter Training
Many of us seem to use Winter as an excuse to reduce our training or sessions. While for some athletes this reduced volume through this period is true. For us runners we should consider either looking at alternative cross training options to keep the body active and muscles supple. I find that lengthy walking sessions…