ANZAC Day 2014
Ernest Theodore Bock 1881-1918
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Auckland
Traffic Light Thought - Auckland City revenue gathering on a holiday?
Grafton Bridge a transit lane today (Easter Monday)? Didn’t get me, I was on a bicycle, but a bit mean on visitors who might not notice this empty bridge was closed to cars as on a busy week day.
Windows Phone 8.1 transparent tiles
Like the new photo background and transparent tiles on Windows Phone 8.1. Currently reminding me of cycling in Vietnam. An extreme close up of a rice paddy.
10th Anniversary, a decade of blogging!
March 31st means it is blog’iversary time again. I find it hard to believe a decade has passed by since that first tentative post. It was rather special to spend a few days last week with the Shaan Hurley (on the left wearing a cap below), who inspired me
AutoCAD Blogger Day 2014
Watching the launch web presentation, live
AutoCAD
Welcome to AutoCAD 2015 - AutoCAD Blogger Day
Autodesk invited bloggers from around the world to meet with AutoCAD product managers, specialists, AutoCAD team members and a gold beta user for a deep dive into the new AutoCAD 2015 release. I’d seen the beta before this trip but was interested to learn what had driven the changes
AutoCAD
San Francisco bound for some bloggy fun - AutoCAD Blogger Day
Allowing some extra—and it turned out not needed—travel time for traffic, unavoidable road works and the slick check in process at Auckland Airport means I’m through security looking at a departure board which says ‘Relax’. Time to blog! I’ve been invited to an AutoCAD Blogger day
Revit User Group Auckland March Meetup announcement
Second RUGAKL Meetup of the year but I’m going to miss it. Join fellow Reviteers as I wing my way to lovely San Francisco for a week of blog related activities, sightseeing and some hilly cycling! Please join us from 5.30pm 6:00pm : Welcome and Introduction 6:05pm
Remarkable Adventures International Cycling
Adventure South have launched a new website for their international tours. I really like the design but felt compelled to add a few annotations of my own. NZ & Vietnam done, Tibet/Nepal next in September 2014! Remarkable Adventures - www.remarkableadventures.co.nz Welcome to Adventure South’s Remarkable
Kiva
The joy of a hosted blog
TypePad was briefly off-line this week but was pretty much fixed by the time I saw this tweet: We really appreciate our bloggers - through this frustrating downtime you have been gracious, witty, and tenacious. Thank you very much!March 5, 2014 They were subject to a distributed denial of
Traffic Light Thoughts
Traffic Light Thought – Your ironic?
It was written, in white vinyl lettering, on the back window of a black Commodore Ute: “Sometimes your the windshield, sometimes your the bug.” Sometimes you’re not quoting The Bug correctly.
How Facebook Knows What You Looked at on Amazon
While not CAD related thought this post by Dare might be of interest. Have you noticed adverts showing up that relate to other sites and wondered how that happens? How Facebook Knows What You Looked at on Amazon - www.25hoursaday.com As part of my day job at Microsoft,