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
This page has resources related to the whole Fluent / Ribbon user interface thing that happened from 2007 to 2009,10,11,12… The posts: General UI Related posts: * The Story of the a Ribbon – Links to the full story from Microsoft’s Office UI team. * Is the Office 2007 Ribbon
This is a bit embarrassing: Cleaning up my draft blog folder I found this post, written back in September, but for some reason unpublished! Wind your mind back to 09/2009 as you read… Jack Yan announces candidacy for Mayor of Wellington I can’t say this was a surprise
Pohutukawa, originally uploaded by RobiNZ. But you have to imagine the cicada soundtrack
CAD and BIM General
It’s hard to avoid BIM, even when you’re on holiday. I must admit the prime motivation for visiting the Maritime Museum was a recently opened exhibit: Blue Water Black Magic - A Tribute to Sir Peter Blake It features the 1995 America’s Cup-winning boat NZL32 – Black Magic
I only did one and it’s on the other blog!
At about this time I do a Blog related review of the year so here goes… Best Blog Discovery: Twitter. Really! It’s not going to kill blogging as just enhances it. Although initially skeptical I have found Twitter slotted into my on-line life in a way no other
Comedy
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Comedy
It’s been there all the time but I just noticed the FSM on the wall behind Moss. Cool to see his noodley touch in this classic comedy. It’s currently in never-ending repeat mode on U.K. TV but rewards repeat viewing so I don’t mind! www.
Autodesk University
Regulars here will know I like the map format for visualising information relationships. Thus, it is interesting to see this summary of my Twitter activity and relationships. The static image below was captured not long after Autodesk University thus the #AU2009 tag featuring! It doesn’t convey the dynamics of
Kiva
Happy Holidays, thanks for visiting & clicking!
Autodesk University
The Revit 2010 user interface changes provoked some pretty strong reaction and, in turn, reactions to the reaction. Although not alone in his opinion Phil Read, on his Arch | Tech blog, was one of the leaders in the anti-ribbon campaign. He even created a T Shirt featuring the “secret”
if you are not in the US, use the recently released iPhone Bing search application and type any search term, even bing, the results are always the same and far from overwhelming. If you try a voice search bing will crash before reaching the “We did not find…” dialog. The
