The nation has been hit by a baking craze!  Lockdown gave some of us more time to do some of the simple things in life, like baking, and, if you were lucky enough to get flour and yeast you could create some delicious treats! I've always enjoyed baking, so loved...

The world has been social distancing for some time now, and will be for a bit longer, depending where you live. To help put off or at least mitigate going stir crazy I thought I would share what I have been doing to keep up some sort of social life.   Before the lock...

If you have lived in New Zealand for long enough, I am sure you would have heard of the poison 1080, used by the Department of Conservation (DOC) as a form of pest control. 1080 can be used in bait stations or by airdrop, which is used for many of the remote and hard...

Lockdown started on the March 26 here in New Zealand, and following the Prime Minister's announcement on April 20th, we're looking at just an extra 2 business days in Level 4, before we move to Level 3 after the ANZAC long weekend. Level 3 means that...

In part two of my Adobe equivalent Free Open Source Software (FOSS) blog I thought I would look at the video editing pipeline and find some free alternatives for your video editing needs. You can read Part One which covers Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign here....

Many places all over the world are currently in self-isolation mode in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In New Zealand, lock down started on Thursday March 26, which means that some people are able to work from home. At OptimalBI, we are working from home and on the...

We like making life a little bit easier here at OptimalBI and one of the ways we have found to do that is by making quick how to guides. The standard text bullet point style guides isn’t what we do, we do cool sh!t. Below is a guide we have on the SAS function INTNX....

I’m sure most people have used or at least heard about the Adobe product Photoshop.  In this blog I’m going to be looking at some of the programs that are offered by Adobe (the makers of Photoshop) and find free software that will fill the same purpose. To get...

As I have said in another blog, we have recently changed from WordPress to Webflow this gave me a chance to set up some things for our current blog content as well as planning for the future of our content. How did I do this I hear you ask, well easily is the answer...