Comedy
Goodnight Ronnie
A legend passes, "and it's goodnight from him"
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
Weblogs
Email Subscriptions (powered by FeedBlitz)
I’ve added another way to access this blog. I wondered if anyone would be interested in email delivery, rather than RSS Feeds, but apparently some are. Since Feedburner and FeedBlitz make it easy, it’s done. If you want email delivery submit your address in the Email Subscriptions (powered
Film
Cars Trailer online
Enrico* has posted a link to the trailer (as in film) for Pixar’s latest – Cars. Enrico’s blog » Blog Archive » Cars Trailer online * Enrico is currently a story artist at Pixar Animation Studios. His blog is well worth a visit/subscription for the lovely artwork and photography. At the
Automobile
Honda takes the BAR
Honda return to Formula One in their own right joining Ferrari (Fiat), BMW (Sauber), Toyota, Renault and McLaren (Mercedes) as the Formula One auto manufacturer teams. Add new rules, the old politics, and it looks like 2006 will be an interesting year. BBC SPORT | Motorsport | Formula One | Honda takes full
Science
Dark Chocolate Helps...
Any excuse to eat chocolate? Maybe not this one…. Dark Chocolate Helps...: Study Confirms Ancient Myth Via ScienceDaily Headlines
Auckland
German Unity Day
The German flag was flying alongside the New Zealand flag on the Auckland Harbour Bridge today. I wondered why but guess it’s because 03 October is German Unity Day
Current Affairs
Royal Idiot
Prince Andrew thinks security is only for the peasants… Andy climax as Prince refuses security check - National - theage.com.au “As a VIP and a royal, Prince Andrew was met by airport officials at a special gate at Melbourne Airport on Wednesday. But when told he needed to pass a
Science
E=mc² turns 100
Brian Greene (The Elegant Universe) celebrates the 100th birthday of Einstein’s famous equation E=mc² with an article that explains, elegantly, the history and what it means for you, and the universe. That famous equation and you - Editorials & Commentary - International Herald Tribune “His genius was not in the
GPS and Mapping
Garmin GPS for cycling
Garmin goes cycling with an Edge - RobiNZ Personal Blog
Cycling
Garmin goes cycling with an Edge
While the Garmin GPS’s can be used for cycling, my Legend does many km’s on the handlebar mount, they now have a model aimed specifically at cycling. In addition to the usual GPS things like position, speed they can also measure things like heart rate & cadence then
CAD and BIM General
Google Earth + SketchUp = Cool!
Back in August after playing with Google Earth I wrote; “BIM + Global Database + Bandwidth = The Future, Today. A BIM project that extended to a site, or maybe suburban layout, can now be placed in context. Anyone with a broadband net connection can have the world on their desktop today. Your
ActiveWords
AutoCAD Fields as ActiveWords
An awesome use for ActiveWords is creating AutoCAD Fields within text objects. AutoCAD Fields are "live text" which show properties like date, filename etc but are actually entered as text strings. E.G.: If you want AutoCAD to show the filename for the current file. You launch the