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March 2024 - 20th Anniversary!
March 31st means it is blog’iversary time. Twenty years since that first tentative post! I really appreciate the connections blogging, and more recently Mastodon, Substack, Discord, & Facebook, has enabled. While the other platforms have taken over much of the day-to-day activity, I still prefer having the content I
Adventure South | The Old Ghost Road Trip 2024
Cycling The Old Ghost Road, Upper Buller Gorge, with Adventure South: About: * The Old Ghost Road Great Ride (nzcycletrail.com) * The Old Ghost Road Mountain Bike Adventure (adventuresouth.co.nz) Ride Posts [WIP!]: * Port Hills Shakedown Ride * Craigieburn Trails Ride * Old Ghost Road Day 1 | Lyell to Ghost Lake Hut
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My best car from the 1990s?
Guess, or click the link to see, which one I picked... Surprised they say ~6 left in the U.K., probably that many still in NZ? One, albeit the later 2001 year 155, in my garage. The best cars from the 1990s, but which is your favourite? - Autocar With
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2023 Blogging Highlights
Happy New Year! Another year has flown by, time to look back from a bloggy/social media (not just CAD blog) perspective at the year: @ a new 'me' on the web Twenty three, and a bit, years after starting a blog I finally got around to getting my
A GBU letter to Car Magazine (U.K.)
Sent to the 'letters to Editor' email 2023-12-23: CARMAGAZINE.CO.UK IN A BROWSER THE GOOD: Content, photography looks so good on screen THE BAD: Web layout and user interface. SLOW loading times even on fibre, why do I ever see a spinning load wheel? THE UGLY: Poor
A form I'll never fill out... UOA Body Bequest Section Two
Part of my 'doing things I should have done long ago' was actually organising donating whatever collection of atoms I comprise of at the end for a useful purpose. I'm not religious so consider once dead the container I formerly occupied is just that. Now the
CAD and car design at Renault
Patrick le Quément, Renault Design, on how he fostered the use of CAD at Renault... Of Mouse and Men – Driven To Write Amongst the traditional activities to be found in any design department there was one oddity which drew my immediate attention when I perused the organigramme — it was named
Curing 'phantom screen touches' on an old Surface Book?
My Surface Book 2 is old, well out of any warranty, but still performs really well for my own needs. It's a home machine but can still run CAD, Revit, even (just) Microsoft Flight Sim, well enough to not consider a replacement. It was a little tight for
Tern BYB P8 Bike in a box, the Tern Airporter Slim ready for the world
The BYB in my Tern BYB P8 folding bike mode name stands for 'Bring Your Bike'. The wonderful thing about a folding bike is taking it, anywhere. When I saw the Tern Airporter Slim case, on their site, the idea of an easily flyable bike really appealed. It
Breaking pinned taskbar shortcuts out of Taskbar Overflow Menu jail
If, like me, you pin a lot of commonly used shortcuts to the Windows 11 Taskbar it will eventually put excess ones into a ...Overflow Menu. How do shortcuts you want end up in there? If an application is updated it will be added to the end of your pinned
The Lancia Delta, Big Car YouTube and me!
Big Car recently released his comprehensive video on the history of the Lancia Delta and I was happy to give a small hand to the production. As a Patreon supporter, I saw an early cut of it and recognised some concept design images he'd used. Back in the