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
Its important to keep your software up to date. That annoying thing that’s been bugging you may have already been fixed! If you have a problem which generates a Customer Error Report dialog send it in, with as much detail as possible, as they are used to track and
CVT Punto meets Jazz. Fita Punto and Honda Jazz - Little belters 07 December 2004 The Punto and Jazz are both recently facelifted small cars with big car aspirations. Dave Moore puts each models' CVT-equipped versions head to head…. Link: STUFF : MOTORING
BlogJet
I had the same experience but reported via email. Great Product, great service Blogjet - Great Response: In a previous post here I mentioned all the reasons why I love using Blogjet as a front end to TypePad. It makes my life so much easier and straight forward. TypePad by itself
New Zealand
The space shuttle Endeavour's 5 year mission to map planet Earth is over. New Zealand and Australia were the last datasets released this week. The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) obtained elevation data on a near-global scale to generate the most (80%) complete high-resolution digital topographic
AutoCAD
In 1983 John Walker drew The Solar System to scale in AutoCAD-86. It was a demonstration of AutoCAD’s floating point database resolution and I remember being shown it when I was at Tech. Everyone was amazed at the precision as they zoomed from Pluto’s orbit down to
Cool Hardware
Terri has just got a Sony VAIO U for Christmas. See her, and Ricks Aibo’s, first impressions! I didn't get one for Christmas but its first on the “H'mmm Essential Toys” List! Terri's Tales, Tech & Travel: VAIO U750P and AIBO VAIO U750P
Cool Software
On a similar theme… AIBO/Dog Attack Movie Experiment: Can a dog tell the difference? Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris is an offshoot of the successful Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Tokyo. Both laboratories were created by Sony to perform basic research in computer science and related fields. Via comment
Cool Hardware
Is this why JK is on the run?
Design and Art
This site is well worth a look. Although its advertising there are great images. An RSS Feed lets you know when new ones are posted. Mid Century art with new century distribution. EphemeraNow > The Museum of Mid-Century Advertising Art and Illustration A family-friendly Web site dedicated to
GPS and Mapping
TUMONZ has another update to support High Resolution Photos of Auckland. Unfortunately only Auckland City boundary (they commissioned the photo’s) so don’t cover the Waitakere City where I live If you have TUMONZ the 2005 Tide Data is available. It’s probably been there for a while but
Cycling
Elvis died 27 years ago, aged 42. If not would he have spent his 70th birthday Lawn Bowling? Strange combination you might think? I was cycling today and went through Tui Glen Park. Its an old holiday camp/park by the river that is being re-developed into a public
GPS and Mapping
If you own Garmin's MapSource there is a new update available to version 6.5. Details of all the changes are listed on the download page but some are: * Updated the default document format to the new GDB version 2 format. * Added the capability to import GPX documents
