Alfie, on YouTube
Hardly Oscar material but chasing/avaoiding a puppy while filming isn’t that easy. Is there an iPhone SteadyCam app? Alfie fetching, sort of, a slipper bigger than him Playing chase including through the holes between the couch
Robin Capper
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
Ferrari World, Abu Dhabi
Jack's post has nice images but this is a video tour. Would be a fine place to stop off on the way to the real factory… Yas Island | Ferrari World | Abu Dhabi “Opening in 2010, Ferrari World Abu Dhabi is set to be the world’s largest indoor
Upgrade from 32-bit Windows Vista/XP to 64-bit Windows 7
In a few easy steps: Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows: Windows 7 Upgrade Scenarios: Scenario 2: Upgrade from 32-bit Windows Vista/XP to 64-bit Windows 7 While there were once valid reasons for skipping 64-bit versions of Windows, those reasons have disappeared over the past
PSU BIM Project Execution Planning Guide
The Computer Integrated Construction Research Program at Pennsylvania State University (phew!) have produced a comprehensive guide to implementing any scale BIM project. I found it last week, thanks to James Vandezande, and showed it at the last Revit User Group Auckland meeting. The “total lifecycle” aspect of the guide interests
Yas Island Ferrari World Abu Dhabi (video tour)
Would be a fine place to stop off on the way to the real factory… Yas Island | Ferrari World | Abu Dhabi “Opening in 2010, Ferrari World Abu Dhabi is set to be the world’s largest indoor theme park, sitting under a roof designed in the style of a classic
Cool Software
Kiva, a treat, no trick
Lots of little loans can make a big difference. Congratulations Kiva! Kiva.org: Kiva Lenders surpass $100,000,000! Around 2pm today (Happy Halloween for those in the U.S.), Kiva hit a major milestone: It's a wonderful accomplishment involving 584,189 Kiva Lenders in our first 4
iPhone
Autodesk University 2009 Preparation 1.03 – 45 Long Distance Travel Tips
Dragos has 44 great tips for long distance travel but I’d add one more to reduce the need; 45. Don’t live in New Zealand, just about everywhere is a long haul trip from here! Dragos’s first tip is. 1. Make A Standard Packing List and refine it
Comedy
A possible “In Plain English” TVNZ 7 line-up
TVNZ 7 have a theme for their November schedule "In plain English" as publicised by New Zealand Finance Minister Bill English. I wonder if it includes: * Minimise your tax liability with a trust in plain English * Maximizing your rental income in plain English * LAQCs in plain English * Public
QotD: Premonition...
Have you ever had a premonition? Did you heed it? Submitted by aynge. No, otherwise I would have answered this question the day before it appeared.
Skeptic
Veronica’s Agel questions, answered
My ”Is the “Agel phenomenon" a scam?” post from Friday, 13 April 2007* still gets a few comments. Today Veronica asked a number of questions which I have decided answer in this post as formatting will make it easier to follow: Hey Robin, just wondering: * Have you ever tried
Notice of Revit User Group Manawatu November (& inaugural) Meeting
If you are a Revit user in the Manawatu region there is now a user group for you! Next Meeting presented by: Scott Sellars & Chris Croton 5.30pm, Wednesday 4th November 2009 @ The Brewers Apprentice, cnr Church & Linton St, Palmerston North Please join us for the inaugural launch
CAD and BIM General
Paul Romer on Cities 2.0 and economic growth in a finite world
It is amusing that Peter Day’s podcast introduction mentions a chance encounter. It’s only a result of chance that I heard the interview and thanks to an unlikely encounter that I knew the interviewee. I turned on the radio this afternoon and heard the last minute of “Peter