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
Cool Hardware
The world's largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380, is on its long-awaited maiden flight. www.Airbus.com ~ Seeing is believing has video, photos and reports from the flightdeck. BBC NEWS | Business | A380 takes off for maiden flight and its a successful first flight! BBC NEWS | The European
Aviation
The world's largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380, is on its long-awaited maiden flight. Will this aircraft have the same impact on the aviation world as the Boeing 747? The 747 was a “bet the company” risk for Boeing that paid off and gave them dominance of
Automobile
Holden V8 Supercars will be sponsored by Buick for the Shanghai race. Buick racing? - Autoblog - www.autoblog.com
Automobile
Ouch, Want to buy a cheap Monaro, GTO… Train full of 2005 GTOs derails - Autoblog - www.autoblog.com
Web/Tech
Lots of finance to manage! Kiwi wins a top job at Microsoft | BUSINESS | NEWS | tvnz.co.nz “Chris Liddell was chief executive at Carter Holt Harvey before he moved to the United States…” “Liddell's job at Microsoft, where he will also be chief financial officer, will involve accounting,
Automobile
Massive effort from the entire team, stunning drive from Michael, Ferrari is back in the race! Alonso showed he can cope with immense pressure and had a well deserved win. Not sure I like the new 2005 F1 rules & qualifying but if they mean races like this then perhaps
ANZAC
ANZAC Day, 25 April, is the anniversary of the landings that began the Australia and New Zealand Army Corp Gallipoli campaign in World War One. This does not commemorate a victory or even the worst battle in terms of loss of life. More New Zealanders were lost in battles on
AutoCAD
A new version of the free Autodesk DWF Viewer is available. The main enhancements in Autodesk DWF Viewer 6.0 are Print Preview, revised Navigator palettes, menus, and tool-bars and an option to hide/show Composer Mark-up status colour coding. I like the new “always available” layer palette
MindManager
Mindjet have posted a map containing RSS feeds to MindManager & related blogs including, much to my surprise, this one! If you don’t MindManager to view this you can download the 21 day trial version or free viewer from the Mindjet site. Mindjet recommends: Blogs on Information Visualization and
Design and Art
Boeing are planning to develop principles and technology created by North Sails for 3DL yacht sails to "spin" composite aircraft fuselage sections for the 7E7 aircraft. While composite aircraft fuselage are used for military (small, largely hand made and very expensive) and use of components in passenger aircraft
CAD and BIM General
Richard Binning attended a Conference on BIM organised by the College of Architecture, Georgia Tech and The LaiserinLetter and is using MindManager to document it. He’s posted a sneak preview and suggests keeping an eye on his “Beside the Cursor...“ blog for more. Beside the Cursor...: BIM (conference on
Aviation
RobiNZ CAD Blog: Boeing to use 3DL Sail technology to "spin" composite aircraft fuselages
