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Bertone Sold, Bertone Saved?
I’ve long had a fondness for Bertone : the Italian Design Studio Coachbuilder. I’m not sure when I discovered who designed those brilliant cars from the 70’s like the Lamborghini Urraco , Lancia Strat...
2007 GottaBeMobile Awards - HP win Tablet PC of the year!
Tablet PC site GottaBeMobile have announced their picks for 2007. The winners include the HP 2710p Tablet PC . We recently got one of these at work and I’ll post a full review once I’ve spent a bit...
James Randi about Richard Feynman
James Randi tells how he confounded Richard Feynman , just brilliant. Links with this one where Richard Feynman explains confusion
Michael Pollan - In Defense of Food
This is nutrition advice I can relate too! No need for Agel in this regime… Science Friday Archives: Michael Pollan - In Defense of Food In this segment, Ira talks with author Michael Pollan abou...
New Zealand
US-NZ petrol pump price comparison - it's still too cheap
TUMEKE! point out that, in terms of %’age increase, we are better off than the US in regards the increase in petrol costs. That may be true but I think petrol is still very cheap . Every time it go...
Learning Inventor LT
I’ve finally had a chance to install the free Inventor LT Preview . While I’ll do the tutorials, and learn the proper way, I couldn’t resist jumping in and creating a simple model. I’m a complete I...
Reminds me of Pat Metheny
The Central Otago landscape on the " Otago Traverse Cycle " reminded me of "Pat Metheny Country". The sort of images you see on his album covers appeared everywhere you look. This scene captures some...
Using Outlook Categories to manage my email
Late last year I also stumbled on the email sorting technique mentioned in the OfficeRocker’s post. I started using Categories on emails related to my Autodesk University trip and changed my Inbox to...
Film
Blu-Ray or HD DVD?
I’m not in the market for a player yet but watching this format battle seems like a repeat viewing of the VHS/Beta war. Seems the New York Times isn't sure either as today it says; Did Warner Br...
MapInfo
MapInfo - Of course there's a blog
Just before Christmas I had some training on a new, to me, application. MapInfo is used for GIS/Demogrpahcs and I wondered if there was any blogs about it and, of course, there is! MapInfo Newsr...
William McDonough's "Tower of tomorrow"
Autodesk University AEC Keynote speaker William McDonough was commissioned by Fortune Magazine to design a “Tower of tomorrow” . It’s nice to see his ideas applied to a multi-story city building....