Science

Total Lunar Eclipse - Wow!

This has nothing to do with CAD but thought you might enjoy. The total Lunar Eclipse tonight was an amazing sight. These photos aren’t the greatest resolution but capture the colors. My little Canon i...

SnagIt + MindManager 7.0 = Happiness!

One of the best accessories for SnagIt is the “ MindManager Output ”. Sadly this was broken when I upgraded to MindManager 7 . Yesterday I attended the Revit Tech Conference and today I was transcribi...

Yahoo!Xtra Bubble: XtraMail thought it was spam!

I was a little mystified why I missed the Yahoo!Xtra Bubble announcements apart from the mail disruption notice seen in this earlier post . A visit to a relations place in the weekend had me setting u...

QotD: Some Sunny Sunday

Where is your favourite place to be on a sunny Sunday afternoon? Submitted by Rev Stan. On a bicycle!

Science

Can you resist hippopotomonstrosesquipedalianism?

I bet you can’t resist clicking through to see what it’s about, I couldn’t. I see your hippopotomonstrosesquipedalianism and raise you a ribulosebisphosphatecarboxylaseoxygenase - The Loom

Revit Architecture

See you at the Auckland Revit Technology Conference 2007?

The Revit Technology Conference is coming to Auckland on Monday (27/08). If any readers are attending say hello to the fellow in the Warehouse ( blue store development ) shirt! Revit Technology C...

Automobile

Ford <strike>Verve</strike> Fiesta?

Car have a post on the Ford Verve (Fiesta?) Concept. Remember when the Grande Punto arrived it seemed pretty stylish for a supermini. Appears the next Fiesta will shed it’s current drab looks and tack...

XtraBubble Mail Trouble...

Last week several hundred thousand subscribers, including me, got an email from the ISP Xtra which said: From: Xtra Sent: Wednesday, 15 August 2007 16:36 To: Xtra Customers Subject: Service Anno...

CAD and BIM General

Robert Green on NOVEDGE blog

Franco has a great interview with CAD Management guru Robert Green. If you are heading to AU 2007 be sure to check out Robert’s CAD Management sessions. I did them in 2005/6 and found them really valu...

AutoCAD

Blogging LT - Erik and Kate's AutoCAD LT Blog

After AutoSketch, AutoCAD LT was the second CAD package I owned. Although it’s regarded as “ the little brother ” you can do some pretty cool work with it. It’s not supposed to do 3D but was fine f...

Xtra Bubble bursts...

Xtra, my ISP, broke loads of it’s subscribers email this weekend while implementing a “ new enhanced servic e”. Stuff like that can happen with upgrades, especially when it’s a complex system with...

25 years of AutoCAD?

AutoCAD is turning 25! Crikey, I must getting old as remember most of it!