Congratulations to Emirates Team New Zealand!
Congratulations to Emirates Team New Zealand for winning the Louis Vuitton Cup ! 5-0 was a brilliant result but in some ways it would have been good if it was closer. Still, we can sympathise with...
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Crazy MindManager Export to web, generated 500mb + content & thousands of files, worked!
This is my last ever MindManager 6 Pro post . It’s sad to say goodbye to a great application but the day had to come. I couldn’t let it go without perhaps the ultimate export to destruction test… I...
Tips for using TypePad & Feedburner
I’ve over the years I’ve people ask how I created a few features which are a combination of TypePad FeedBurner. Reading this post on the TypePad Blog made me do something about sharing it. The other r...
What time is it? Outlook Time!
Have you noticed when working with .pst files Outlook seems to enter another dimension. Why bother with a “x time remaining ” when it has no connection to the time the operation will take, or any cloc...
TIME can't get RSS Feed time right?
You’d think TIME could get the time date right in their RSS feed. Al Gore is podcasting from 2037 according to them! Thought it may be my reader but it’s there in the feed, pubDate Fri, 06 Feb 2037...
New Zealand
"Emirates Team NZ thrash Luna Rossa"
Valencia Sailing pull no punches but… they did! Valencia Sailing: Louis Vuitton Cup - Finals - Day 3: Emirates Team NZ thrash Luna Rossa In this morning preview we asked who was to blame for Lun...
Design and Art
Ponoko, Ideas made real!
I first heard of Ponoko when their “Blog Editor” Stephen Kempton commented on one of my posts. We exchanged a few emails about Ponoko which makes design concepts real providing a new model for manufac...
Shaan's AutoCAD and Autodesk History Images
I just noticed Shaan Hurley has posted a bunch of historic AutoCAD Autodesk images to his Flickr pages.
Windows Live Writer, nice price but not for me
If you are serious about blogging an off-line editor is an essential tool. TypePad have a good on-line editor but I rarely use it as it’s still slow cumbersome in comparison to a local editor. As a...
Autodesk NavisWorks?!
I first read the announcement on Tenlinks and was surprised to see Autodesk are acquiring NavisWorks. I’ve seen a few NavisWorks demos, but had no hands on experience, and saw enough to know it’s a go...
A tribute to Dodderyoldfart - My Favourite Blogging Roadworker
It was a shock to discover that a respected Kiwi Blogger died suddenly last Wednesday.
SOLECISM, n., a deviation from correct idiom or grammar
This struck a chord...