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This month’s RUGAKL meeting has a new location. Join us at The Paddington for a look at Revit 2013 New Features and a review of the recent RTC Au conference. Full Details and RSVP at: June Meeting - New Features & RTC Australasia wrap up – RUGAKL MeetUp When: From
AutoCAD
Not sure how I missed it but I’ve been busy catching up with the awesome StarTalk podcast back catalogue. It is where, to quote their own tagline: “Science, pop culture & comedy collide on StarTalk w/ astrophysicist & Hayden Planetarium director Neil deGrasse Tyson, comic co-hosts, celebrities & scientists.
Not the clearest, a bit of halo and at the limit of IXUS zoom, but you get the idea.
This post, republished below the break, first appeared as a guest post on Shaan Hurley’s Between The Lines ~ Autodesk Blog. Shaan was visiting remote regions in Africa and enlisted some guest bloggers to fill the time he was off-line and save him from getting eaten by wild animals. That
Great to see the revamped Bruce McLaren Trust website back on-line with impressive new site. An amazing historic resource and lots of information on the Trust’s activities. Bruce McLaren Trust - www.bruce-mclaren.com In July 1990 a small memorial trust had been formed to honour Bruce. Upon its
There’s a handy App to manage your installed Autodesk Exchange Apps! You can check app status, install updates, access help, uninstall and rate them from one dialog. Get Autodesk Exchange App Manager free from the Autodesk Exchange website. UPDATE 2012-06-3: Must add, this is currently for AutoCAD 2013 (inc
Never thought of antique TV game shows as source of economic inflation comparison. I grazed into a TVNZ Heartland repeat of an early 80s "It's in the Bag". A contestant turned down $800 and took the bag. She won: - Zip Appliance Package: Toaster, Jug &
Automobile
I think I stole the title from an old Citroën 2CV advert: “All the car you actually need”? The Tata Nano hasn’t quite hit the sales predictions but cheap doesn’t have to mean bad, simple is clever. As I said when it launched, this little car really embodies
I looked up knowing a Boeing 787 Dreamliner was somewhere in New Zealand. I even knew earlier in the day @dannews had been fortunate enough to fly to Christchurch in it. Immediately above a sleek twin engine jet was passing over glinting in the sunset. It's hard to
Very clever Fiat brilliantly punks VW on Google Street View | Technically Incorrect - CNET News Fiat workers notice a Street View car filming in their area. So one staff member decides to drive right up to the door of VW's nearby headquarters and park a Fiat 500 there…
SnagIt
I can’t imagine working without Snagit but faced that horror last night. How I broke it I had CAD application publishing (digital print to DWF file) and was editing some captures while it was working. The computer was occasionally a bit slow as the publishing consumed chunks of processor
When I heard Lawrence Krauss, author of A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing , was giving a lecture at The University of Auckland I had to be there. I’ve always regretted missing Richard Feynman’s 1979 Douglas Robb Memorial Lectures. I was 13 and although
