RobiNZ CAD Blog

March 2025 - 21st Anniversary!

March 31st means it is blog’iversary time. Twenty-One years since that first tentative post. I really appreciate the connections blogging, and more recently Mastodon, Bluesky, 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 really value, in terms of wanting to retain, on my ‘own’ platform. It has been a quiet year for the CAD Blog, but that's OK because I have been mostly retro-blogging on the other one about old cycle trips! To everyone, everywhere, thanks for visiting, reading, and subscribing both here... Read more →

TechSmith Snagit confidential: Coincidence or great marketing?

Either way, nice one Techsmith Snagit, my essential screen capture tool. This arrived in my inbox today: TechSmith Snagit Advert about hiding sensitive information While I was listening to radio news about... Journalist releases texts sent by US Defence Secretary about military operation | Radio NZ | 22 minutes ago Details of airstrikes that would normally be closely guarded secrets were also discussed in the chat... (Text and Audio) Read more →