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 2004 (AU) was the first I have attended. Given that it requires considerable investment, in money and time, to get there (from New Zealand) it was hard to know if the long trek to AU would really be worth it. Many (including Autodesk) say AU is best the
AutoCAD Architecture
Chris Yanchar has posted some advice to the ADT Newsgroup on using the Sheet Set Manager (SSM) in ADT especially when projects are hosted on network drives. Occasionally while rearranging sheets, with drag&drop, the SSM structure can appear not to change & sometimes the .dst file SSM uses
Las Vegas from a helecopter
Cool Hardware
I recently purchased a set of Bose QuietComfort 2 Noise Cancelling Headphones. I had read about them but got a chance to try them on a recent flight to the US as was sitting near someone who had a set. That brief encounter was enough to convince me to get
Cool Hardware
The Register have a great review of the "Sony Vaio U". I already have the completely irrational desire; logic and commonsense on the window sill ready to fly, I'm trying to find a need for it! Link: Sony Vaio U70P Wi-Fi micro PC | The Register.
Weblogs
Credit to Amazon for setting up a one click donation to the Tsunami Disaster Relief (via the American Red Cross). In addition to a personal donation the little bit of income from this blog (mostly earned via Amazon links) has been donated. If you can help its only a click
Sports
Konica Minolta (formerly Zana) retired from the Sydney Hobart. This is the best account I've found of what happened, Around the World of Sailing - December 28, 2004 Coming the last two hundred miles by bus wasn’t the way we planned it.” These were the wry thoughts of
CAD and BIM General
Another new CAD blog: Link: The Mad Cadder. News and links on Autodesk Products such as AutoCAD, Architectural Desktop, Building Systems and Revit.
I made my regular bike ride stop at Continental Car Services today. It's always worth a look to see the exotic vehicles they have on display as I go past there when heading around the waterfront. Today was surprised to see a Sauber Formula One Car in the
I heard on the radio that the sea level at Milford Sound rose/fell 20cm this morning as the Asian tsunami passed. When you consider its something like 9400 km away it gives some idea of the power. Although far away we can help. If you are in New Zealand
CAD and BIM General
Another new CAD Blog! Link: Cold Fire CAD. "The look in your eyes as you head for the door is a cold fire"
Music
Link: Maritime Crew. The Maritime Crew is currently working hard rehearsing songs for their 4th CD. This is going to be different from their previous CDs in that all of the 17 songs to be recorded are compositions by Captain of the Crew, Rudy Sunde. Rudy started writing sea songs
