Google’s blog recently announced that Unitec, my old tech (then known as Carrington Technical Institute), deployed Google Apps to its students across four campuses. When I was there in the mid-eighties there was no Google, let alone web applications, and a few thousand students shared one campus. The
Ok, Windows I understand… But no Office 13 is just daft. Maybe Autodesk didn’t have much luck with AutoCAD 13 and Corel went from CorelDRAW 12 to X3 but is there really a need to preserve stupid superstition in the logical world of IT? I wonder if there will
If you’ve still* got AutoCAD 2010 or AutoCAD LT 2010 installed Update 2 is available for download. As usual read the Readme and test anything crucial. You’ll find the the details and download links on Shaan’s post: AutoCAD 2010 and AutoCAD LT 2010 Update 2 Released for
Hanoi traffic is amazing
Vectortuts+ has some brilliant CorelDRAW tutorials. The latest, by Dimas Angga Permana, has step by step instructions to produce the watch seen below. How To Create a Steel Wristwatch in Corel Draw | Vectortuts+ PS: In response to a comment on the Vectortuts+ post this links to, some (like me) do
A wet night in New Orleans, originally uploaded by RobiNZ. Imagine waking up, jet lagged after a long flight, and flicking on the TV to see Glen Beck (who I had never seen before) running a panel "rant" about the "Apocalypse" and "The Rapture"
Route 66 in a Fiat isn’t new but I haven’t blogged about it before, think I did Tweet at the time. It is here for my future reference as I’d love to do a road trip in the US one day. We got the Multipla in New
A recent TypePad update included Category Feeds. It’s an item from my wish list that has been a long time coming. They were possible before but required template editing and avoiding that sort of hassle is the reason I use TypePad! Now it’s just a tick to enable
Revit User Group Wellington have a new Blog & YouTube Channel. Details at: * Blog - http://rugwell.wordpress.com/ * YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/user/mtypnz April Meeting Details: Wed 28 April 2010, Productspec HQ, 14 Holland St, 5.30 – 7.30pm * Introductions Matt will introduce the presenters and our event
Today is ANZAC Day which commemorates the New Zealanders killed in war and honours returned servicemen and women. It’s always a time to reflect, just one of the millions was my Mums Grandfather who died on the battlefield in the last few months of World War One (which ended
It was a temporary glitch but had me humming...
I usually* don’t moderate comments but do review them and delete obvious spam. TypePad filters most of that (see below) before it reaches the blog but occasionally spam (seemingly human generated) gets through. They can seem valid, often reference the post they appear on, making it a marginal call.
