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
Aviation
Back in 2006 when Air New Zealand introduced new baggage controls on domestic flights I had quite an email ‘discussion’ on the matter of weight (excerpt below) and passengers. They said the new charges were to control fuel use, efficiency, not gather revenue and I argued they were penalising average
March 31st means it is blog’iversary time again. I find it hard to believe nine years have flown by since that first tentative post. To everyone, everywhere, thanks for visiting, reading and subscribing! Statistics: Last year broke the million visit mark and in spite of reduced posting from me
Autodesk 360
Autodesk have unveiled a new look Autodesk.com and announced their 2014 product updates. The new look Autodesk, hinted at earlier this month, comes with updates to existing products, new applications, revised industry specific Design Suites and Autodesk 360 Cloud Services. Check out the announcement below and details at http:
Techsmith have posted a useful guide on using Snagit 11 with Windows 8. Although it is a desktop app (no RT version yet) you can capture the Start Screen and Modern UI applications with the use of hotkeys. There’s also a guide to adding Snagit to the Start Screen
Cool Hardware
I love that something which began with a pencil scribble on paper and bit of sticky tape could be the solution to mobile power compromises. It is a long way from lab to shop floor but this looks promising. The Graphene-Based Super Capacitor - Next at Microsoft - TechNet Blogs
Google are killing Reader, their RSS feed aggregator: Official Blog: A second spring of cleaning “We launched Google Reader in 2005 in an effort to make it easy for people to discover and keep tabs on their favorite websites. While the product has a loyal following, over the years usage
Auckland
I don’t know why but traffic lights on the Shore seem to have the worst phasing of any in Auckland. You rock up to a light and it goes red, no other traffic in sight, wait, wait, wait, here comes a car, their light goes red… and I get
Since I’ve been a customer I can only remember a couple of changes in Autodesk branding. They recently they announced a new logo so it is goodbye to the old: Hello to the new: Autodesk, autodesk, Autodesk, AUTODESK? I like the new logo but wonder about the uppercase text.
I’ve been using Windows Live Writer to create drafts for this blog for several years. The, recently decommissioned, Mesh/Live Mesh sync service to enabled me to blog from my PC or Netbook. When I fired up Windows Live Writer all the post drafts, images and other resources would
I passed a Speed, sorry I meant Road Safety, Camera van on the way home last night. It was policing an arrow straight 100 km/h limit motorway section on a fine sunny evening. I presume it was set to nab those doing 5–10 km/h over the limit
Film
I was watching a documentary about Facebook which, in part, mentioned how their adverts are targeted: “Going by the ads I see Facebook thinks I want an AMEX card, a new kitchen, a cinema ticket, a Honda and a holiday in Rotorua. That's zero correct.” Then a bit
UPDATE 03/22/2013: I have my replacement Samsung #ATIV keyboard dock and all is good. No more wobbly power connection so far! After a couple of weeks with my Samsung ATIV Smart PC Pro I have returned it. I hope to get it, or another, back but am currently