Automobile
Cars I've Owned, Driven, Rented List Updated
I’ve re-posted my Cars I've Owned, Driven, Rented list in it’s original MindManager Map format.
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
Autodesk University
Autodesk University 2006 Class Spreadsheet
With almost 500 courses and 37 sessions running at the same time sometimes the toughest part about going to AU is deciding what to miss, you can’t be everywhere! In previous years my approach was to copy/paste the course schedule into a spreadsheet and use it’s filtering
Comedy
A packed beach in Summer
Don’t you hate it when the weather is great, you go to the beach but so does everyone else… China New Zealand Via A Welsh View
Formula 1
Bizarre Goodman & Coulthard interview - Hungaroring Q3
There was a bizarre post-qualifying interview at Hungaroring. It’s not in quotes, as is from my memory, but went something like: ITV's Louise Goodman interviewing David Coulthard about missing Q3 asked: How the cold [Hungaroring weather] is affecting you. He replied: It makes it more pleasant
Fiat
I doubt Kimi will drive for Ferrari in '07
I was just watched the post race press conference from Germany again while clearing out the recorder. I didn’t notice while watching live, it was about 01:30am local time, what Michael Schumacher said and Kimi’s reaction. Michael, with a beaming smile, patting Massa on the shoulder: “he’
Cool Hardware
What takes...
70,000 litres of paint 358 single bottle bombs 33 sextuple air cluster bombs 22 Triple hung cluster bombs 268 mortars 33 Triple Mortars 22 Double mortars 358 meters of weld 330 meters of steel pipe 57 km of copper wire 1 High-rise Apartment Block 1 Website 1 Blog
Television
No more Sony Plasma Televisions
Sony bail out of Plasma, so it’s all direct or projection LCD from now on for “Colour like.no.other” Sony to halt PDP-TV production - www.digitimes.com Sony to halt PDP-TV production - www.digitimes.com via www.engadget.com via www.engadget.com
Politics
Goodbye to my Chinese readers
I’m not sure if I had any Chinese readers via RSS but it appears their govt will ensure I don’t. Micro Persuasion: China Blocks FeedBurner RSS Feeds Micro Persuasion: China Blocks FeedBurner RSS Feeds FeedBurner, which powers hundreds of thousands of blog, podcast and mainstream news feeds (including
CAD and BIM General
Tablet PCs in the survey field
Interesting article on Tablet PCs enabling information rich field work. Mapping the Future of Field Geology - ScienceMatters @ Berkeley In 1818, William "Strata" Smith ushered in the modern practice of field geology with his publication of the first hand-painted, color geological map of England and Wales. Two centuries
Automobile
Cars I've Owned, Driven, Rented
Inspired by Jack Yan's much more exciting list...but with comments & memories. Like my own version of CAR Magazines:The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (GBU). Explore the map (below) by expanding/collapsing the branches, clicking the link icons will show the wikipedia post for that
Automobile
Fiat Grande Punto - The Good, The Bad, or the Ugly?
CAR deliver their verdict which is… Well, you can see it’s not ugly! Fiat Grande Punto Verdict - GBU CAR Online Fiat Grande Punto Verdict - GBU CAR Online CAR Magazine - The World's Most Authoritative Motoring Magazine CAR Magazine - The World's Most Authoritative Motoring Magazine CAR Magazine
Automobile
CAR Magazine (U.K.) get serious about the Internet?
I’ve long been a reader of CAR Magazine U.K. It’s still probably the best car magazine but has always had a patchy, weak Internet presence. It appears that may change as they have re-launched their site with some bold claims. I’ll be watching to see