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
Kiwi based "personal factory" Ponoko now have a San Francisco manufacturing centre meaning your creations can be made, shipped, to US customers without crossing the Pacific. Ponoko takes the make/sell hassle out of getting your designs to your customers by providing web based manufacturing, costing and shopping
AutoCAD
This is my agenda for the Autodesk Solutions Day 2009 tomorrow. It starts out so neat but I know how it will end up. If you see someone scrawling illegible notes on a Tablet PC say hello!
I love cars but, I must admit, not any GM made. I don't always agree with Michael Moore but think his plan for GM's revival knocks anything the tired GM Executive presented to Obama for six. General M...
Chrysler get Fiat power train & small car technology, Fiat get Chrysler's US distribution network and maybe US plants which I can see the sense of having. You have to wonder if any more deals are in the offer to replace the lost Opel bid and give Fiat
After 13 years 3 months & 9 days the mighty Uno 45s has gone. It has travelled 247,000km, 192,000 in my hands, but is unlikely to do many more. A recent WOF signalled rust that was un-economic to repair so the time had come to part. However,
1,683 days ago I joined the Autodesk beta portal MyFeedback.com. Today MyFeedback goes off-line forever, to be replaced by a new community on a new platform: http://beta.autodesk.com I was just...
AutoCAD
I had an AutoCAD license borrowed while upgrading the server to a new license file. Handing it back proved to be a problem because the lic had gone. A quick trip to the Autodesk Discussion Group revea...
Last week I presented to the Revit User Group Auckland about "ribbonisation". It was a background to the development of the Fluent User Interface, otherwise known as "the ribbon", based on several presentations I have seen over the years. I suspect it was possibly the only
This Autodesk press release reminded me of attending a conference in Korea back in 2006 . At that stage it was more about BIM and the new Songdo City , currently in construction. The next logical ste...
This AP article has a really good summary of Sergio Marchionne's rise to the top and how he turned around Fiat Auto. Recommended reading, I didn't realise he pushed the new Bravo, especially for Chrysler management... Fiat CEO willing to take the wheel at Chrysler While
This AP article has a really good summary of Sergio Marchionne's rise to the top and how he turned around Fiat Auto. Recommended reading, I didn't realise he pushed the new Bravo, especially for Chrysler management... Fiat CEO willing to take the wheel at Chrysler While
They lost my support today, Stupid Auckland Harbour Bridge protest goes ahead - RobiNZ Personal Blog
