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
CAD and BIM General
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
Cool Hardware
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
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
Autodesk University
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
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
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
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
Revit User Group NZ
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
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
Revit User Group NZ
Some Australasian Revit User Group News from RUGSYD and RUGAKL: RUGANZ Umbrella Group Name: You may know that we have been looking to form an Umbrella User Group with the Australia and NZ user groups - However we are stuck on a name! Please help us out by going to the
Auckland Architect Roger Morrison and Gary Page (Salesoft ATC) showed Revit on Mâori Television 411 last Monday. It featured Roger’s impressive use of Revit for residential design. The clip is available on-line but I couldn’t find a way to embed it so click through to their site.
I’ve added the new TypePad Favorite to my blogs. To “Favorite” a post, you will need to sign in using TypePad, Facebook, Twitter, or OpenID and click the button in the post footer. Of course it should be “Favourite” but there isn’t a button for that yet. The
