GPS and Mapping
Brent's New Zealand Street Maps for Garmin GPS are now available via his new site. I use them with my Garmin Legend and Mapsource software but they also come with a DOS loader if you don’t have Mapsource. Until Brent made these available Garmin Worldmap was the
Current Affairs
STUFF : BUSINESS - STORY : Tindall has $100m for innovation 25 June 2004 By ROELAND VAN DEN BERGH Retailing guru Stephen Tindall has put his money where his mouth is, investing $100 million of his own money in new innovative companies...
Music
Here Comes The Caviar!!!!!!!!! TWO SHOWS ONLY.. Sunday 18 and Monday 19 July at Bar Bodega Wellington New Zealand. Strictly limited tickets available from 22 June. Tickets from Ticketek and Real Groovy Show starts at 8.30pm..........possible Christchurch and Queenstown shows to be announced soon depending on committments here
Sports
Ellen MacArthur, skipper of the new 75-foot trimaran B&Q, is currently attempting to set a new west-east solo transatlantic record from Ambrose Light off New York to the Lizard Point off the south-west coast of England. The current record stands at just 7 days, 2 hours, 34 minutes,
Is this why BMW weren't impressed when it was suggested F1 go back to V8's. Spend who knows how much on a V10 for the M's so you can market "V10 Engine as seen in F1" and then... Brain-cramping amounts of info
Go for it I think, but then I'm biased. Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger: Microsoft sponsors Formula One race team and starts internal debates
Schumacher was 0.013 seconds behind Barrichello when they crossed the line after the safety car avoiding a penalty. The computer timing said he wasn't for a brief moment as explained below: The FIA explains Indianapolis timing glitch Via Grand Prix Passion
AutoCAD Architecture
I’ve been playing with ADT’s Napkin Sketch feature in an attempt to get more of a “freehand” look for space planning. The intent was to remove the “cast in stone” computer look that space plans have when used out of the box. I think concepts need to look
Web/Tech
Kiwi version of the Microsoft default background. Full resolution (1024 x 768) version at the Microsoft NZ link below. New Zealand Windows XP Bliss Desktop Background
Cool Hardware
If PDA's are under attack from Smart phones will “Handtop PC's” threaten existing Notebooks and Tablets? If you can get away with working on a small format high-resolution screen when mobile why carry a large one around like you do with a Notebook? If you can
CAD and BIM General
An industry survey has picked CAD as one of the "10 Electronic Technologies That Changed Construction". I wonder if in 10 years time BIM (or whatever they call it then) will have made it to that list. Its trying to combine & harness many of the technologies that
Interesting New York Times article on the Information Technology used by Formula One Teams and the influence computer power now has in racing & design. Computers Chase the Checkered Flag | N.Y. Times
