Wild Oats sets new standards in Sydney Hobart
Wild Oats beat Alfa Romeo setting a new record for the Sydney Hobart of 1 day, 18 hours and 10 minutes. Alfa Romeo race report - Alfa Romeo Maxi Yacht. Alfa Romeo race report - Alfa Romeo Maxi Yacht
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Santa's Helpers - Amazon
Behind the scenes at an Amazon distribution centre. Filling Amazon's Tall Orders - businessweek.com See how the world's largest online retailer ensures that gifts get delivered on one of the busiest shopping -- and shipping -- days of the year Via Full Metal Blog
US Automakers changing interior design...
After visiting Florida, I can understand why they are doing this....
Cool Software
Meet a nice Bandit - RSS Bandit Upgrade
I came home from AU to find a bandit waiting. Not a problem as it was only a new version of the RSS Feed Reader – RSS Bandit. It has a cool new logo and updated smiley face Bandit icon. There are some nice new features: I think the best is
AutoCAD
AutoCAD DWG into Google Earth
Beau Turner shows how to transform 3D DWG files into Google Earth using ExtractKML, a tool from the Avatech Solutions DEV team. Awesome! Will render for food...: DWG and Google Earth. Will render for food...: DWG and Google Earth
Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2005.. Google Earth Feed
This is neat. Watch the 2005 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race in Google Earth, with yacht positions and standings updated every ten minutes. Great way to track the race as Kiwi supermaxi’s Alfa Romeo and Konica Minolta battle for line honours. Getting it working If not installed already, download
Alfa Romeo, the yacht, to take on Europe
It starts as a favourite in today’s Sydney Hobart but the new racing supermaxi, NZL 80 Alfa Romeo, will also be seen in competing in European events in 2006 thanks to sponsorship from Alfa Romeo (Fiat Auto). Alfa Romeo to sponsor Neville Crichton's supermaxi yacht - italiaspeed.
Bentley
Bentley who?
Randall Newton comments on Why Bentley Seems Invisible to AutoCAD Users. It’s an interesting view of a company I know little about. Is that because I’m an AutoCAD/ADT user? Bentley Systems sheds its low profile (Philadelphia Business Journal) Via AEC news.com
500 reasons to like January 2007
The new “80% Trepiuno” Fiat 500 arrives Montezemolo on the Fiat 500 and Stilo - debut in January 2007 - Eurocarblog Luca di Montezemolo - New Fiat 500 model will arrive in record time - www.italiaspeed.com
Comedy
Santa on Google Earth
Follow Mr S. Claus on his delivery trip around the world… Official Google Blog: This just in.... I love Google Earth and have been planning a big trip with it… S. Claus Official Google Blog: This just in...
Weblogs
A week for a day but what about a backup? - TypePad Outage Compensation
TypePad will be crediting all active members with one free week of service to compensate for their recent problems. That’s nice, thank you, but I’d also like to see a way for users to easily backup their entire account content/structure to a local file. No matter how
It's tough being popular...
Networks are wonderful until they stop working as many discovered when a recent network outage caused major disruption . No I’m not referring to TypePad’s recent problems. On one of the busiest shopping days of the year, the Friday before Christmas, the main EFTPOS network in New Zealand collapsed