Auckland
German Unity Day
The German flag was flying alongside the New Zealand flag on the Auckland Harbour Bridge today. I wondered why but guess it’s because 03 October is German Unity Day
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Current Affairs
Royal Idiot
Prince Andrew thinks security is only for the peasants… Andy climax as Prince refuses security check - National - theage.com.au “As a VIP and a royal, Prince Andrew was met by airport officials at a special gate at Melbourne Airport on Wednesday. But when told he needed to pass a
Science
E=mc² turns 100
Brian Greene (The Elegant Universe) celebrates the 100th birthday of Einstein’s famous equation E=mc² with an article that explains, elegantly, the history and what it means for you, and the universe. That famous equation and you - Editorials & Commentary - International Herald Tribune “His genius was not in the
GPS and Mapping
Garmin GPS for cycling
Garmin goes cycling with an Edge - RobiNZ Personal Blog
Cycling
Garmin goes cycling with an Edge
While the Garmin GPS’s can be used for cycling, my Legend does many km’s on the handlebar mount, they now have a model aimed specifically at cycling. In addition to the usual GPS things like position, speed they can also measure things like heart rate & cadence then
CAD and BIM General
Google Earth + SketchUp = Cool!
Back in August after playing with Google Earth I wrote; “BIM + Global Database + Bandwidth = The Future, Today. A BIM project that extended to a site, or maybe suburban layout, can now be placed in context. Anyone with a broadband net connection can have the world on their desktop today. Your
ActiveWords
AutoCAD Fields as ActiveWords
An awesome use for ActiveWords is creating AutoCAD Fields within text objects. AutoCAD Fields are "live text" which show properties like date, filename etc but are actually entered as text strings. E.G.: If you want AutoCAD to show the filename for the current file. You launch the
The Warehouse Group Ltd
The Warehouse Logo, a new look
As part of a refresh of stores, marketing and branding the 23 year old company logo has been updated to a more contemporary design. Some like it, some don’t – what do you think? Out with the old; In with the new; CAD Images on this blog using The Warehouse
Current Affairs
RadioLive offering RSS News Room feed
Subscribe to Radio Live news in your RSS Reader. RadioLive News Room Feed URL: http://news.talkback.co.nz/SyndicationService.asmx/GetRss
Music
Van Morrison's Contractual Obligation Album
This is great… WFMU's Beware of the Blog: Van Morrison's Contractual Obligation Album In order to fulfill his obligation to his early solo label Bang Records,Van Morrison sat down in 1967 or so and cranked out 31 songs on the spot, on topics ranging from
MindManager
MindManager Extensions from Mindjet Labs
Looking for some cool MindManager add-ins? Mindjet have a special section of the new website devoted to extensions for MindManager. Over the past two years in the Business Solutions Group at Mindjet, we have experimented with MindManager X5 and 6 to see what innovative ways MindManager could be used
Web/Tech
Office XML File Formats open up
The next Microsoft Office (12) is going to use XML as it’s default file format. The old binary .doc, .xls and .ppt file formats will be replaced with new file technology based on XML and zip compression. Brian Jones backgrounds the history of Office file formats and why this