ClassicItalia & Hobson Bay wandering

Went for a walk between the cars & lunch

Mark Hadlow's GOMIL is a triumph

One man, one bike, one stage, spinning thought provoking humour

Hello Ghost!

This is RobiNZ Blogs, a brand-new home for my former TypePad hosted blogs and future blogging. My blog is over twenty-one years old. Its purpose changed over the decades, from the initial focus on CAD (design software) to more about me, but is still the home for my content I

On the move, TypePad shutting down

My blog(s) will be on the move as TypePad, who've hosted them since the first post in March 2004, is closing down. For me this is just a hobby, is going to be quite a disruption for any commercial users. I can't complain given TypePad

Character amnesia and the death of handwriting?

Have you forgotten how to write? I pretty much have, cursive lower case anyway! When I did my Product Design Diploma, for three years, it was a requirement that all submissions (not just drawings) were printed. I pretty much converted to upper case printing for all my writing and never

The true 'The Penguin Lessons' movie story

The Lives Less Ordinary podcast has true story that inspired the delightful movie 'The Penguin Lessons' with Steve Coogan & Jonathan Pryce. Spoilers if you haven't seen it already but knowing won't reduce your enjoyment if do. I loved this movie, both for itself

Sports hydration, my cycling drink mix vindicated!

Loved this episode of Sliced Bread: Do drinks and powders with electrolytes help to hydrate you better? from BBC Radio 4. Greg Foote speaks to Graeme Close, Professor of Human Physiology and Head of the Research Institute for Sports and Exercise Sciences at Liverpool John Moores University, and after a

Slow opening Revit Autodesk Construction Cloud Structural files? Of course it was the storage disk sector size!

Get a nice new certified CAD mobile workstation, put a trusted, much used, deployment of Autodesk AEC Collection Apps (AutoCAD, Civil 3D, Revit, Navisworks etc) on it and all appears fine until... * Go to open a small (26mb) Revit structural project file from Autodesk Construction Cloud and it takes 30-35

I'm with Katie, have no time for cycling snobbery

I thought the 'velominati' was a funny parody of cycling snobbery, then found some take it seriously as 'rules'. I mostly ride solo, in cycle kit but go out of my way to find non-sponsor branded team stuff. The thing that really gets me, and I

Flying Solo or Missing Males?

What started as an article share has also revealed an interesting view of on-line (left) vs 'print' (right) media. I read the 'print', actually digital on-line magazine app view, of today's The Independent' (U.K.) on solo parenting. But when went to share

Greg Johnson Vine Street Stories 30th Anniversary Tour

It was great to see Greg's Vine Street Stories 30th Anniversary Tour, the album live plus more, so good. Also nice of him to sign my first release 30-year-old CD! Although I mostly listen to his 'Tilt Your Interior - The Whole Kit and Caboodle' (box

ANZAC Day, Great-Grandfather Ernest Theodore Bock, my Michael Palin's 'Great-Uncle Harry'

I recently 'read' Michael Palin's 'Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire': Some years ago a stash of family records was handed down to me, among which were photos of an enigmatic young man in army uniform, as well as photos of the