A Kiwi, but not a flightless bird or brown fuzzy skin green centred fruit. Humanist, Skeptic, Cyclist, Car Enthusiast, Westie Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa New Zealand | he/him
A casual start to the year and a new venue for this meeting. Grab a beer & hear AU Speakers (Roy AU China, Simon AU Vegas), first time attendee (Michelle) and RobiNZ blogger’s view of Autodesk University 2010. Details & RSVP via Meetup: RUGAKL February Meeting - Autodesk University 2010
I work with both ACA & Revit (project dependent) and it’s interesting to find features in one that could help with the other. Most Revit projects I’ve seen have some sort of sheet & working view structure. Working views are permanent/temporary views for model editing to avoid
Observations from today’s bike ride. An Aston Martin DBS looks & sounds rather nice (seen near Kohi) but a Maserati GranTurismo S 4.7 looks* & sounds a whole lot better (seen at the Te Atatu Off-ramp). * Even though, or maybe because, it was Matt Black!
How a little and big little car demonstrates technological evolution. Applied Abstractions: FIAT 500 and Structural deepening One aspect of technology evolution, according to W. Brian Arthur's excellent The Nature of Technology, is structural deepening: How basic technology adds features over time…
AutoCAD Mac
Found a surprise in my Inbox tonight. It’s not new, was announced in the US in September 2010, but AutoCAD for Mac has arrived in New Zealand and the West Island! Get more info, or grab a 30 Day trial, at: http://south-apac.autodesk.com/autocadformac
Found via SkepticBros.com, where you can get your Placebo Band, posted here so I can find it [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1Q3jZw4FGs&w=640&h=390]
A mate has documented, in blog form, his Fathers flying career which spanned Sunderland/PBY Catalina flying boats to DC8 jets (including survey flights for the Coral Route). The blog has many diary extracts and photos from a time when aviation in NZ & the Pacific evolved from an adventure
Their personalised number plate was: ISS 1 I thought of International Space Station, and my visit to KSC after Autodesk University Orlando 2005 (below), but maybe it meant something else?
Sometimes a Google vanity search is not a good idea… Salisbury woman charged with extortion - WGMD.COM Last Friday Salisbury Police arrested 46 year old Robin Capper on an outstanding warrant. Capper is charged with threatening an elderly man that unless he gave her money she would report to police
This may be from the Department of obvious but just in case I’m the only one who hasn’t noticed… IE9 allows you to drag a site URL to the taskbar creating an pinned icon (right). Clicking that launches IE with open at URL while right click will give
While using another machine, via remote desktop, to publish & print I noticed a small edit was required. It involved applying a space style to a polyline (in an old floor plan) and that didn’t go so well. The same conversion on the actual machine worked fine.
During an idle moment, waiting for something, a noise drew my gaze toward the sky. It came through the solid cloud cover and I strained to identify the source. I had a good idea but wondered how you’d explain it to someone who didn’t, who knew nothing of
