CAD and BIM General
I’ve been interested in Nanotechnology since reading Eric Drexler’s “Engines of Creation” years ago. Tonight I found the Foresight Nanotech Institute Blog – Nanodot – which was launched in 2000! Nanodot Blog Home page: http://foresight.org/nanodot/ Nanodot RSS Feed: http://new.foresight.org/nanodot/wp-rss2.php Foresight
Web/Tech
So if you Google yourself and get no results, do you exist? View from the Isle - If I Google you, would I find you?
Weblogs
TypePad is getting a revamp to allow easier management of comments & trackbacks. As this blog is both hosted on and created with TypePad I’m looking forward to seeing the new features. At the same time BlogJet, my favourite off-line post composition software, is also getting an update.
Weblogs
TypePad is getting a revamp to allow easier management of comments & trackbacks. As this blog is both hosted on and created with TypePad I’m looking forward to seeing the new features. At the same time BlogJet, my favourite off-line post composition software, is also getting an update.
Web/Tech
If you had to tell someone how disk drives will be improved using Perpendicular Recording Technology which avoids the superparamagnetic effect it could be really boring or it could be like this: View the animation “Get Perpendicular” (Macromedia Flash + Sound Required) You’ll learn about Perpendicular Recording and highly effective
Current Affairs
In a post on “A Networked World” Earl comments on how Australia is drying up. A few days later the Sydney Morning Herald report even tougher water restrictions. The problem seems to be uneven distribution, rather than lack of water, since at the same time in New Zealand the poor
Design
Want to design a house I’ll be helping pay for… (in addition to my own of course). Design Competition For State Housing ~ Housing New Zealand Corporation DESIGN COMPETITION FOR STATE HOUSING – HOUSING NEW ZEALANDERS 100 YEARS ON State houses have been an important - and often iconic - backdrop to our
Politics
Haven’t they been waiting long enough? BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Howard urges Aboriginal patience Australia's Prime Minister John Howard has warned the process of combating disadvantage within the country's Aboriginal community could take years…
Current Affairs
Peter Faris QC has an excellent analysis of the Schapelle Corby case. Nobody other than Schapelle really knows if she was guilty. If not guilty she is extremely unlucky. Its possible that the chain of events claimed by her defence team occurred (see point 45 in Peter’s post) but
Automobile
An interview and biography of the original Top Gear “Stig”* (black helmet version); CRASH EXTRA news - Perry McCarthy on life as ‘The Stig!’ Crash.net took the chance to catch up with Perry recently, to talk about life as the ‘Stig’ and find out just how easy it is trying
Web/Tech
Ever wondered where those computer “sounds” you hear, some daily, came from? [blog.forret.com]: Genesis of some famous sounds Mac Startup Sound: Windows Startup Sound: 1995 Intel Inside Sound THX Sound
Sports
The New Zealand super-maxi yacht Maximus took the lead in the Rolex Transatlantic Challenge when the schooner Mari-Cha IV had to stop for 12 hours to repair damage... [Full story at www.sfgate.com]
