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The court says no to The Warehouse takeover bid

Today the Court of Appeal upheld the original Commerce Commission decision to block Woolworths Foodstuffs takeover bid. This started way back in 2006 and it’s probably not finished yet… Warehous... Read more →

A Cuil ActiveWord?

Shaan laments the death of spelling and I think I agree. I’m also not sure how good (note I resisted using the word cool here!) the new search engine Cuil is but it’s worth an ActiveWord . This one wi... Read more →

Kiwis like blogging?

One in 13 New Zealanders has a weblog? Some have more… 1 , 2 , 3 . Others have a life Kiwis top of international survey for blogging - NZ Herald Of the 78 per cent of New Zealanders who us... Read more →

Goodbye Randy

Via Joel Orr , I was sad to learn Randy Pausch has died. I was only reading his update page a couple of nights ago so it wasn’t unexpected. Goodbye thanks. See: Advice for a future Engineer, everyo... Read more →

You say AutoCAD Product Update, I say AutoCAD Bug Fix...

Autodesk’s AutoCAD 2009 based service packs, the “big” between release bug fixes, are out. This time they have been re-branded from Service Packs to Product Updates . What’s in a name, apart from c... Read more →

Syd Mead, the world of Blade Runner

I’ve posted previously about Blade Runner which is the second best Science Fiction movie in the history of cinema. Much of that was thanks to the realistic design, the work of Visual Futurist Syd Mead... Read more →

Good old AutoSketch, maybe it has a future?

I recently had the need to delve back into AutoSketch 2.1 (released in October 1995 my last version). It was the first CAD application I owned and, while it’s ancient, runs on the XP Core 2 Duo box fa... Read more →

"Kiwi Guy" Julian Dean, Team Garmin, in le Tour de France

Because of the Kiwi connection, and my favourite GPS , I’ve been following Team Garmin in le Tour de France . It’s been great to see Julian Dean’s brilliant performances, including several top ten sta... Read more →

Autodesk University 2008 Sessions online

The Autodesk University 2008 sessions are on-line so it’s time to start thinking about what you’ll go for when the registration opens. With hundreds of sessions and only a few days to attend them it’s... Read more →

The Sydney Opera House - A BIM legacy

This post was scheduled to go live when I was cycling in Viet Nam. It didn’t happen then but I think the articles it link to are still worth reading. Besides, it’s about one of my favourite buildings... Read more →