Autodesk Gallery - Design on show
Having seen "The Gallery", on Scott's Labs Blog , I was keen to visit and delighted to find it was the location for the AutoCAD 2010 Backstage Pass Event . When I arrived much of the display area was...
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Traffic Light Thought - The slower they go, the faster they change?
Why does it seem to be: The slower someone goes down the motorway on-ramp, the faster they'll dive for the middle, "fast", lane once on the motorway? Inspired by someone today who did 40km/h...
A nice surprise, from TypePad, today
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A surprise feature on TypePad
It was a pleasant surprise, and honour, to read TypePad's monthly newsletter and find I was the featured blogger! I didn't know until another TypePad'er at work told me this morning. I'd had a late...
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Snagit shows how File Properties should be done
Right Click Properties on an image in the Snagit 9 Captures and you get this dialog It isn't that remarkable apart from one feature . The Location property is a URL that opens the containing fol...
Back from the blackout with a new look
It looks like the New Zealand Internet Blackout protest may have worked . While off-line I made some changes to the design, template and banners on all my blogs. As before the banner images will ch...
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Back from the blackout with a new look
It looks like the New Zealand Internet Blackout protest may have worked . While off-line I made some changes to the design, template and banners on all my blogs. As before the banner images will ch...
Today this site is blacked out in protest #blackout
UPDATE 2009-02-23: Looks like the Blackout Protest, and related submissions, may have worked: Computerworld John Key delays copyright law The government may suspend S92a if no agreement is reach...
Why should I care about the Kiwis in Hopetoun, Western Austrailia?
I'm watching Sunday about Kiwis who chased the "big" money in Western Australia, which has evaporated, and thinking why should I care? They made the decision, they chased the big money in the Nicke...
Traffic Light Thought - Why 2005 A.D.?
Sitting at the lights I gaze at a relatively new, cheap looking, row of apartments. They are the kind you build by standing up a few tilt slabs and filling the gaps between with apartment. What cau...
QotD: I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream!
What's your favorite flavor of ice cream? Not one, a scoop each of Rush Munroe Chocolate and Cappuccino from here
AutoCAD 2010 - It's Parametric!
Parametric* Constraints are not new in CAD but are in AutoCAD 2010. I think their arrival, along with free form modelling, reflects a real change in attitude from Autodesk towards the application that...