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
AutoCAD Architecture
Last week, while talking about standards, I asked the retail design team a question: “What’s the colour, hatch scale and pattern of the space used for a Toy dept in one of our store plans.” T...
Yes I do have a white Uno. Yes it does have a few paint chips, dents and dings but they are the result of 245,000 km commuting, stones, errant supermarket trolleys and the like. This isn’t me!...
Cool Hardware
Have Sony have finally given up with SonicStage? I hope so as their music hardware is great but SonicStage, the software that connected it, was awful . TrustedReviews - Sony Dumps ATRAC Conne...
Science
IBM are manipulating atoms aiming to get a thousand times current storage densities. Imagine your server, on your ipod… IBM Nanotech Breakthroughs Point To Tech's Future Building Blocks: Scientif...
CAD and BIM General
The arrival of conceptual shading, and hardware that could cope, in CAD meant escape from the world of wireframe. This Toyota Corolla takes wireframe out of the monitor into the real world… I ca...
Autodesk University
Apart about this time of year, from last time , I write a post about Autodesk University which ends with a decision to trek across the globe to the best cad user event there is… Yep, I’ve done it a...
Autodesk University
Seeing Dean Kamen’s presentation, from a Segway but not about them , was a highlight of Autodesk University 2004. This clip gives a glimpse of what he’s about; being remarkable… Dean Kamen pr...
SnagIt
This is brilliant, from SnagIt to TypePad in a click! Versions for WordPress, Live Journal, Movable Type and TypePad at: http://www.techsmith.com/snagit/accessories/blogging.asp via blognation
AutoCAD
In the latest post on NOVEDGE Franco Folini interviews Jimmy Bergmark of JTB World. Like many I first “met” Jimmy via the Autodesk Discussion Groups, his website and blog. He’s a keen contributor a...
Science
This has nothing to do with CAD but thought you might enjoy. The total Lunar Eclipse tonight was an amazing sight. These photos aren’t the greatest resolution but capture the colors. My little Canon i...
One of the best accessories for SnagIt is the “ MindManager Output ”. Sadly this was broken when I upgraded to MindManager 7 . Yesterday I attended the Revit Tech Conference and today I was transcribi...
I was a little mystified why I missed the Yahoo!Xtra Bubble announcements apart from the mail disruption notice seen in this earlier post . A visit to a relations place in the weekend had me setting u...
