Often I’ll read a blog post, or article, and think that’s special/cool/handy/not to be forgotten. But the fact is there are zillions of blogs, gazillions of posts and while a search engine can probably find it again it’s often hard to narrow down the
This, the first track from First Circle, is one of my Favourite Pat Metheny Group tracks. It’s also a brilliant way to disrupt the demo of any new AV technology. I haven’t seen it performed live, even though I own every Pat Metheny Group DVD but think it’
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I finally, third attempt, got to the “Auckland Skeptics in the pub” meet-up and it was great. About 30-40 people attended. A screening of “Here Be Dragons” was followed by a skeptics quiz and conversion over drinks & pizza. I met some interesting people, including some avid South Park fans,
RSS Bandit, my favourite Feed Reader, has had an update. Apart from adding support for the Facebook news feed this release is mostly bug fixes and background work in preparation for a new Windows 7 version with a Fluent UI. It is well worth the, free, download. I’ve tried
A few days ago Gregory Arkin celebrated post #800 on Revit 3D.com and included a visitor map (below left). It prompted a comment from this Kiwi blogger: “Hey, I have a problem with that map! Can you guess why?”. Today he totally redeemed himself with this post and accompanying
Design and Art
This is off topic but I thought worth sharing. Looking at the image (right) of Ferrari World, Yas Island, Abu Dhabi it seems a bit “computer render” but this is a photograph. The shrine to all things Ferrari was recently closed in and certainly stood out in the coverage from
Click through for an awesome post from David Byrne about the work of C. R. Licklider. David Byrne Journal: 10.24.09: Internet Antichrist “The Internet, the World Wide Web, as much of a boon as it has been, has left an awful lot of wreckage in its wake, beyond
They may have some 777 & 787’s on order for the long haul but it seems Air New Zealand are happier flying Airbus closer to home. Air NZ's fleet updated in billion dollar spend-up | The National Business Review - New Zealand Air New Zealand has selected Airbus
I must credit Franco Folini, from the NOVEDGE - Rhino News Digest, with finding this delightful Kiwi Invention. In spite of having visited Dunedin several times, and cycling around it a fair bit, I have never seen an Anti Gravity Cruiser. Perhaps I didn’t look up often enough! Click
I was checking some changes on my blog this evening and the Autodesk Exchange sidebar component caught my eye. It says Shaan Hurley, but I think its Travis? * This will probably only make sense to a few CAD bloggers, who were in San Francisco last February, and some guy called
Hardly Oscar material but chasing/avaoiding a puppy while filming isn’t that easy. Is there an iPhone SteadyCam app? Alfie fetching, sort of, a slipper bigger than him Playing chase including through the holes between the couch
