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
I usually hear Paul Thurrott on Windows Weekly podcast but this week he was in New Zealand for TechEd. This local podcast with Paul, & Aussie Microsoft MVP Alan Burchillis, is worth a listen for Aussie/Kiwis interested in the new wave of products & services from Microsoft. NZ Tech
AutoCAD 2013/AutoCAD LT 2013 SP1 has been reposted, with a further fix, as Service Pack 1.1 This Service Pack can be applied to AutoCAD 2013 installed as a standalone application as well as AutoCAD 2013 installed from the some Autodesk Design Suites (including Autodesk Building Design Suite 2013)
A while ago I decided it was time for a blog redesign. After considering lots of options, including radical change based on entirely new templates and a fun diversion, I have settled on some simple tweaks: * Simplified Font: “Lucida Grande” Verdana replaces Arial — and no italics except for quoted text
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFW5fgypGtY&w=640&h=360] via Boeing's 787 Dreamliner gets assembled quickly for Air India | @scoopit sco.lt/7W34xl — Joao Greno Brogueira (@topcadexperts) September 8, 2012 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Interesting to see the 787 uses conventional looking
Design and Art
I recently learnt of this event which may be of interest to my Au/Kiwi AEC readers. The event is open to both Australian and New Zealand architects and particularly topical given the rebuild work generated by recent natural disasters. I just love the poster obviously inspired by Napier'
Today Autodesk announced a new addition to the Revit Platform: Revit LT. LT from a Spark? Remember Autodesk Labs Project Spark? An experimental simplified Revit aimed at individual users wanting to migrate from 2D drafting to Building Information Modelling. I tried Spark and found the feature set pretty complete for
I’m one tourist who sits, hopefully not grumpy, at work clutching a coffee mug remembering cycling the Golden Gate. I love the image and imagery in the words on Rowans blog, click through... The Golden Gate « Rowan Simpson This is my take on that iconic structure
Just as well the cars in front of me were slow off the line. The traffic light I was looking at was VERY GREEN , which meant the one the black VW Passat went through, crossing our path, was VERY RED.
Yay, Google Maps now has cycling directions for New Zealand and Map Maker tools so we can add updates. Below you can see Google Maps suggested route from my suburb to the city. It routes cycles to the North Western Motorway (or freeway for US readers) in preference to a
See the details behind the current bioluminescent theme here
Shopping for a laptop (not for me!) recently it was good to see 64 bit OS installed on all but entry level products. Given that level of acceptance in the consumer space I find it surprising to find some dedicated CAD workstations are still running the 32 bit flavour of
A very Skeptical Month! Skeptember - Auckland Skeptics in the Pub (Auckland) – Details and RSVP at Meetup Join us for Skeptember where there will be drinks, discussion and fun. Our speaker this month Associate Professor Andrew Shelling from the University of Auckland. He will be here to talk to us
