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
Excessive use of colour, formatting * bullets * bullets 1. numered lists 2. numered lists in posts from now on is due to playing with TypePad's new "Rich Text" message editor. It now has a "Compose Post" (WYSIWYG view) and the existing Edit HTML (code view)
After they fled from F1 Ford staying in WRC for four years was a surprise . The shock is that both Peugeot and Citroen will withdraw at the end of 2005. I thought it odd that both PSA companies had WRC teams competing fiercely but the answer always given was that
Jarre
In October Jean-Michel Jarre performed the first outdoor concert in the world to be entirely in 5.1 Dolby surround. This article has some interesting background on the event staged in Beijing's Forbidden City. Article - Jean-Michel Jarre In Beijing French Electro and Chinese Tradition in Dolby
Automobile
I was interested to see that Ferrari briefly considered rebuilding Michael Schumacher’s car after the Saturday practice accident at the Brazilian Grand Prix. In the end due to damage they used the spare car, incurring a 10-place engine change penalty, but I’ve got some idea of the
AutoCAD Architecture
Chris Yanchar's Between The Walls - Architectural Desktop Blog has a new address. Its now at: http://adt_blog.typepad.com/ The RSS Feed is: http://adt_blog.typepad.com/between_the_walls/index.rdf
Weblogs
Not many compared to some but to see 25,000 hits attained was cool: Total number of hits: 25090 Average per day: 125.45 Today: 426 In the last hour: 2 This week: 1068
Web/Tech
Dare Obasanjo (RSS Bandit) has an interesting comparison between Google Desktop Search and what to expect from WinFS. Some are saying "Google Desktop is WinFS but available today” however his article details the fundamental difference between text/index searching and what WinFS will offer. The comment "Tools like
Autodesk University
Dr. Lynn Allen has another video on-line for Autodesk University attendees. Do you have AUOS? Get a diagnosis from "Dr. Lynn Allen" (Windows Media Player) The first in this series was: How to Avoid "AUOS" (Autodesk University Overwhelm Syndrome) (Windows Media Player)
Cool Hardware
An airliner or ship is easily powered by turbine engines but imagine your Laptop, PDA, cell phone or house running on tiny chip sized turbine generators. Maybe fuel cells aren't the future! Technology Review: Power on a Chip Batteries are heavy and inconvenient. Their successors could be tiny
Design and Art
This is very cool. Paddington Development Corporation has just unveiled, or rather unrolled, a startling new pedestrian bridge. Full story on Newspad - the website for Paddington, Bayswater, Hyde Park and Maida Vale. via A Welsh View
Cool Hardware
The whole Tablet PC thing has me perplexed and an article from JKOnTheRun has pointed out why. I like the concept of a Tablet PC and they seem to work OK (from what I’ve seen). I have times when pen & paper just frustrate the hell out of me
Metheny
Looking at my music favourites you notice Pat Metheny (solo & group) appears more than a few times. Great news is that another release is coming soon to add to the collection. The new record by the Pat Metheny Group is called “The Way Up” and will be released in
