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
NOTE 2010-10-02: This partial article was lurking unpublished in my drafts folder. I have posted it, backdated to when it was written, for reference now the AutoCAD WS application is live. If nothing else will show how the app & service have evolved Butterfly is a preview of
Although his run ended with retirement (engine damage) it was great to see Albert Llovera in the Fiat Abarth Grande Punto this weekend. Last time I remember seeing a Fiat competing was back the late 1970s (Fulvio Baxxhelli & Francesco Rossetti won Rally NZ in a Fiat Abarth 131 in
Our Retail Design application subscriptions are actually funded from an IT budget. Its owner just happened to be near my desk as I was dealing with the 2011 license file today. It’s amazing that writing quite a large cheque results in the delivery in a few lines of text
Recently the April issue of Autocar (NZ) appeared in my mailbox. I was initially perplexed as I don’t subscribe to it but then noticed a (printed) sticker with the words “incorporating Driver”. I have subscribed to Driver since issue one so that was the connection. A few weeks earlier
Google’s blog recently announced that Unitec, my old tech (then known as Carrington Technical Institute), deployed Google Apps to its students across four campuses. When I was there in the mid-eighties there was no Google, let alone web applications, and a few thousand students shared one campus. The
Ok, Windows I understand… But no Office 13 is just daft. Maybe Autodesk didn’t have much luck with AutoCAD 13 and Corel went from CorelDRAW 12 to X3 but is there really a need to preserve stupid superstition in the logical world of IT? I wonder if there will
AutoCAD
If you’ve still* got AutoCAD 2010 or AutoCAD LT 2010 installed Update 2 is available for download. As usual read the Readme and test anything crucial. You’ll find the the details and download links on Shaan’s post: AutoCAD 2010 and AutoCAD LT 2010 Update 2 Released for
Hanoi traffic is amazing
Vectortuts+ has some brilliant CorelDRAW tutorials. The latest, by Dimas Angga Permana, has step by step instructions to produce the watch seen below. How To Create a Steel Wristwatch in Corel Draw | Vectortuts+ PS: In response to a comment on the Vectortuts+ post this links to, some (like me) do
A wet night in New Orleans, originally uploaded by RobiNZ. Imagine waking up, jet lagged after a long flight, and flicking on the TV to see Glen Beck (who I had never seen before) running a panel "rant" about the "Apocalypse" and "The Rapture"
Route 66 in a Fiat isn’t new but I haven’t blogged about it before, think I did Tweet at the time. It is here for my future reference as I’d love to do a road trip in the US one day. We got the Multipla in New
A recent TypePad update included Category Feeds. It’s an item from my wish list that has been a long time coming. They were possible before but required template editing and avoiding that sort of hassle is the reason I use TypePad! Now it’s just a tick to enable
