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Purple as instructed
Colour selection by David Farrier, colour blend (of purple and red) and hair styling the wonderful work of Sue and the team at Sudan Hairdressing
Vale Rich Sales (Salesoft CAD Solutions)
A quiet genius
Not all CEO's can be Carl Bass
i was listening to this, podcast link below, and the recent news of tech CEO pilgrimages to Florida to meet with the incoming... Conversation with Carl Bass - Former CEO of Autodesk and Maker of All Things Awesome | Manufacturing Spaces By Pete Oxenham This week Carl joins us to share
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upFront.eZine CAD industry legend Ralph Grabowski retires
The final upFront.eZine #1.138 This email, the final upFront.eZine #1,138, marks a significant event in the history of the CAD industry and media. I don't remember when I first read Ralph Grabowski's eZine but it long pre-dates meeting him in 2003. He
The art of Gifford Jackson
I was browsing the Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT) site, saw a poster for a Boeing Above and Beyond Exhibition while cycling today, and stumbled upon an exhibition of one of my mid-1980s UNITEC (was then Carrington Technical Institute) Product Design Diploma Tutor’s work. Gifford Jackson taught us
Bravo Carl Bass
Not all CEOs can be Carl Bass, bravo for saying this (screenshot below) (about Donald Trump)
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RIP AutoCAT
Back in 2005, while I was "kitten-sitting", my Aunts Birman kitten discovered AutoCAD . Sadly, Carlos was struck by a car last weekend and, after a brave fight to survive, died yesterday. RIP AutoCAT....
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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...
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Shutdown Week ends, back from "the Maniototo"
Shutdown week is over. It was a brilliant week of cycling in the South Island, mainly an area known as “the Maniototo" . It’s a remote part of Central Otago which is hardly crowded itself – covering a...
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Shaken, not stirred! - Auckland just had a little earthquake
Was having a late’ish dinner and thought that’s odd, felt like the house moved back forth slowly several times… and it had! There was a Ricter 3.7 – depth 6km quake about 20:30, a bit later one of Ric...
It's easy to be an expert
This is a little off topic, but was prompted by a recent CAD event. Sometimes you look at amazing work and think I could never do that. The thing is, you probably can as there is often only one difference between you and the expert and it’s never too
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Surviving Geek Dinners - A guide for non-geeks
To be a non-geek at geek dinner must make for a long evening. Maryam offers some advice to ease the pain. The all geek dinner is fairly rare for me, apart from Autodesk University, but being a geek can earn dinner invitations. My usual response: “Dinner would be great, so