Traffic Light Thoughts
While sitting at the lights this morning I watch three workmen – big guys complete with fluoro vests – unloading tools and a few bags of pre-mix concrete to repair a footpath… from a Toyota Prius !...
Comedy
Earl is coming back to live in New Zealand. That means organising all manner of things, including a mobile phone. His experience with Vodaphone is not encouraging… A Networked World: A Broken Sy...
The Warehouse Group Ltd
Commerce Commission says no... Supermarkets' Warehouse bids denied - Stuff.co.nz BREAKING NEWS: Supermarket rivals Woolworths and Foodstuffs have been knocked back by the regulators in their pla...
Cool Software
I’ve upgraded to Office 2007 Pro and have been adjusting to the “Office Fluent User Interface”, sometimes known as “the Ribbon”. For decades every application interface has had those comforting...
Sports
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...
MindManager
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...
TypePad
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...
Office
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...
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...
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...
CAD and BIM General
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...
AutoCAD
I just noticed Shaan Hurley has posted a bunch of historic AutoCAD Autodesk images to his Flickr pages.
