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Traffic Light Thought - The AutoCAD Car?
I thought I saw an AutoCAD car
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Television
The end VHS, bye bye CRT?
Well you can still buy them, just, but Sony’s Winter Catalog shows how quickly times have changed. No mention of VHS and just one page with a few CRT Televisions. They are replaced by LCD screens a...
AutoCAD
The AutoCAD Car?
It’s the boring bit of my morning commute, thankfully only a couple of kilometres, where nose to tail traffic can be impossible to avoid. While inching along, both brain and gear box in neutral, I...
Revit Architecture
Rev'irritations or Stupid questions of the day?
I know one click does the work of many as parametric magic ripples throughout the model but: Any way to get this state of the art application to realise I’m not running 800 x 600 display resolut...
Office
The true cost of Open Source, no roadmap?
In a world where Open Source is often seen to be the future it’s interesting to see the Automobile Association of New Zealand dropping Open Office in favour of Microsoft’s Office. It’s interesting...
Aviation
The 787 - Air NZ's gamble, or Boeing's?
Have Air New Zealand backed a winner? Given it won't be making its maiden test flight until next year I suspect it maybe a little premature to be picking Air New Zealand’s 787 buy as a good deal....
Google doesn't always help...
Searching for Kiwi Revit parking content today led back to a site I knew didn’t have any. The first two results were useless, I didn’t even have to vist the site to know that! The summary from the thi...
Automobile
Fiat 500s on the road
A nice video of 500’s old new, with a few interesting “morph” comparison shot, and review on The Auto Channel.
Auckland
Bikes 'too dangerous' for school?
No wonder the traffic is delightful when the schools are on holiday. I pity the youth of today being driven, or if over 15 driving themselves, to school and missing the freedom, adventure and occasion...
Automobile
RobiNZ CAD Blog: Fiat's "iPod of cars" 500 Powered by Windows
This post on my CAD blog has info about the 500’s Windows Mobile based Navigation Media system RobiNZ CAD Blog: Fiat's "iPod of cars" 500 Powered by Windows Fiat Chief, Sergio Marchionne, was wid...
Fiat's "iPod of cars" 500 Powered by Windows
July 4th 2007 was a significant day as, 50 years after the original, Fiat released the new Fiat 500. Fiat Chief, Sergio Marchionne, was widely quoted "I want Fiat to become the Apple of cars" an...
Rally
Head to Repco for 2007 Rally New Zealand Info
It’s good to see Rally NZ offering merchandise tickets nationwide. It’s great publicity for New Zealand’s largest annual sporting event. ::2007 Rally New Zealand:: - Rally New Zealand goes to th...