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Want your own “Love the Ribbon”?

Due to popular demand, ok a couple of comments after posting this, these are available at RobiNZ Blog Store. Any profits from these sales will go to RobiNZ Blog Kiva Micro Fund Lending Team. NOTE: As I don’t have rights to reproduce a real product ribbon the CafePress image has a brand less generic ribbon in the arrow portion. See what this is all about on my The Love the Ribbon page Read more →

#AU2009 - I love the ribbon shirt, the Use2009UI=1 revenge

The Revit 2010 user interface changes provoked some pretty strong reaction and, in turn, reactions to the reaction. Although not alone in his opinion Phil Read, on his Arch | Tech blog, was one of the leaders in the anti-ribbon campaign. He even created a T Shirt featuring the “secret” command to revert to the old “classic” UI The (over)reaction came in the form of his classes at AU being dropped which was something I opposed on my blog and more directly. I wasn’t alone in that and eventually sanity prevailed. Phil appeared at AU2009 with a session on “Insanely... Read more →

I’m a hard to use PC?

Instructions from a website to set desktop background?* To set web image as desktop background; Instructions for PC Click on a link to open the full size version of the image. It will open in a new window. Right click on the full size image, choose ‘Set as Wallpaper’ or ‘Set as Background’. Instructions for Mac Click on a link to open the full size version of the image. It will open in a new window. Holding Ctrl and clicking the image simultaneously, choose ‘Download Image to Disk’. Save the image to your hard drive, preferably in Library | Desktop... Read more →

Old Anti Gravity Cruisers of New Zealand

I must credit Franco Folini, from the NOVEDGE - Rhino News Digest, with finding this delightful Kiwi Invention. In spite of having visited Dunedin several times, and cycling around it a fair bit, I have never seen an Anti Gravity Cruiser. Perhaps I didn’t look up often enough! Click through for more of Chris Ebbert’s delightful work modelled in Rhino. Who said Kiwis can't fly! Old Anti Gravity Cruisers of New Zealand - a set on Flickr The Kiwis have been using anti gravity since the 19th century, thanks to its accidental discovery through Invercargill farmer Gary Wilson in 1863... Read more →

Autodesk Exchanged? I think it’s Travis! *

I was checking some changes on my blog this evening and the Autodesk Exchange sidebar component caught my eye. It says Shaan Hurley, but I think its Travis? * This will probably only make sense to a few CAD bloggers, who were in San Francisco last February, and some guy called Travis who was attending another conference. UPDATE 2009-11-05 from Twitter: RT @thecadgeek: @robincapper: @haubert @AU_Online Here's a blog post of mine that mentions the Travis story http://bit.ly/4wbkXc Read more →

Apple think Aussies are that stupid?

One of these is the logo for an Australian supermarket fresh produce range. The other is for a computer company which mostly seems to make music players and phones and is named after a fruit**. Can you tell the difference? Apple seem to think Australians will be confused by this… Australia's Woolworths, Apple in logo dispute - Yahoo! News * Note: The logos reproduced above remain the property of their respective owners. I have faith you’ll know who owns which. ** I’m not sure FTC rules apply here but just to be sure better declare… My new iPhone was not... Read more →

The ultimate CAD/BIM accessory, a Fiat 500 Mouse!

It looks great, should handle ok but I wonder about the wing mirrors being a bit 'pointy" on your hand. What could be better than Revit AutoCAD Architecture 2010, running on a PC with Windows 7 64 and... Read more →

My new car, was $617,000, now only...

Oops, this was mean't for the other blog... Read more →

Engineering Evolution

Off topic but I had to share; Via; Life on the Wicked Stage Read more →

Awake?

This made me laugh. I don't worry, I just blog... Awake Cartoon | Savage Chickens - Cartoons on Sticky Notes by Doug Savage Click fot the full toon Read more →