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
Automobile
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,
AutoCAD
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...
AutoCAD
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
CAD and BIM General
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
Automobile
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
Auckland
I'm an Aucklander, I'm a cyclist, I'd use a Harbour Bridge cycle path if there was one. I signed up to the Get Across Campaign and got their invitation to this protest. I didn't participate because I thought the action, to block
If you'd asked me to describe Sunday Live, Radio Live's Sunday morning show, I'd have borrowed the description they used on their own web-page: A stimulating mix of interviews with the week's news makers, feature guests, reviewers and commentators. Great Sunday
My fave Kiwi artist: Greg Johnson Band to play San Juan Capistrano Arts Series Sat June 6, details at www.musicatthelibrary.com
ActiveWords
This ActiveWord will query the new Wolfram|Alpha Computational Knowledge Engine. Execute the ActiveWord and this dialog appears, enter the search term, ActiveWords will launch your browser with the query entered in Wolfram|Alpha. It's early days for my use but so far just the city & date
