What is this thing at Piha?
I found it on Google Earth but have no idea what it is. A large, apparently, concrete structure in the middle of nowhere at Piha. Last time I went to Piha I drove up Rayner road but there wasn't anyth...
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Rodney Hide on John Key, is he just another Michael Cullen?
Rodney Hide (unless someone has hacked the Act Blog) on John Key. Are they really going to work together? The way Rodney puts it a Key/Clark coalition seems more feasible... John Key's Econom...
CAD advertised on the radio, is this a first for New Zealand?
I've never heard a New Zealand Autodesk reseller use radio advertising until today. Radio Live had a CADPro advert for AutoCAD Inventor. It got my attention but I wonder what their audience, it's a ta...
AutoCAD Architecture
Can a "." require 1GB of memory? - AutoCAD Architecture 2008
The Problem: Open a old project with AutoCAD Architecture 2008 (ACA). Create a new view, attempt to place it on a sheet, Crash! The Investigation: My usual approach with problem files is to t...
Skepticblog
A new blog with a contributions from; Brian Dunning, Kirsten Sanford, Mark Edward, Michael Shermer, Phil Plait, Ryan Johnson, Steven Novella, Yau-Man Chan Subscribed! Skepticblog It is a serious group skeptically-themed science blog, and represents a collaboration across many of the biggest institutions of organized skepticism. From the outset we
Weblogs
Interesting blogs I discovered recently...
Although not new, they are to me; The CADsmart Blog - The CAD BIM Skills software company on CAD, BIM. Rockmaster's CAD Resources - Jason Foster - What it says, and more! [n]Codon - Bojana...
Sensible comment on the bailout
Michael Shermer sums up how I feel about the sub-prime loan debacle;
Weblogs
TypePad is 5, but this blog isn't!
TypePad , my blog host, is celebrating it's 5th birthday however this blog is a bit younger. When I wrote that first post back in March 2004 I didn't know where it would lead. I certainly didn't think...
Caution, work in progress
I t's n o t yo u r e y e s. The line leading, spacing, has gone wonky. Working on a fix
Caution, work in progress
I t's n o t yo u r e y e s. The line leading, spacing, on the website has gone wonky. Working on a fix. UPDATE 2008-10-23: The wonderful folks at TypePad Support fixed it!
The "new" Autodesk discussion groups are worse than awful
Steve is right, but showing great restraint just using the word "awful". The new improved Autodesk Discussion Groups might be new but they certainly aren't improved. In place of the old system - one o...
Living and Blogging with Live Mesh
For the last few months I've been using the Tech Preview of Microsoft Live Mesh to help create this blog. What is Live Mesh? I'll leave the detailed technical explanation to others who do it bet...