Web/Tech
It’s ‘mind-boggling’ thinking you can 38 hours a week, have work-life balance, and be successful?
I read this entirely wrong...
Hello Ghost!
This is RobiNZ Blogs, a brand-new home for my former TypePad hosted blogs and future blogging. My blog is over twenty-one years old. Its purpose changed over the decades, from the initial focus on CAD (design software) to more about me, but is still the home for my content I
On the move, TypePad shutting down
My blog(s) will be on the move as TypePad, who've hosted them since the first post in March 2004, is closing down. For me this is just a hobby, is going to be quite a disruption for any commercial users. I can't complain given TypePad
Character amnesia and the death of handwriting?
Have you forgotten how to write? I pretty much have, cursive lower case anyway! When I did my Product Design Diploma, for three years, it was a requirement that all submissions (not just drawings) were printed. I pretty much converted to upper case printing for all my writing and never
Flying Solo or Missing Males?
What started as an article share has also revealed an interesting view of on-line (left) vs 'print' (right) media. I read the 'print', actually digital on-line magazine app view, of today's The Independent' (U.K.) on solo parenting. But when went to share
Microsoft Copilot: Ai'lies or time Co'fusion?
So I asked Microsoft Copilot: December 11th @ 12:00 PM Pacific US in NZ time? Sure thing! 12:00 PM on December 11th in Pacific Time (PT) converts to 9:00 AM on December 12th in New Zealand Standard Time (NZST). If you need any more conversions or have other
The best GBU mention ever!
Last night I posted this comment (without the image) on a 'The Intercooler' article by Mel Nichols about the history of the iconic Car Magazine Good, Bad, Ugly (GBU) pages: My favourite* GBU line was the 1983 (still have the August issue) 'Sum up' for a
Web/Tech
2023 Blogging Highlights
Happy New Year! Another year has flown by, time to look back from a bloggy/social media (not just CAD blog) perspective at the year: @ a new 'me' on the web Twenty three, and a bit, years after starting a blog I finally got around to getting my
Automobile
A GBU letter to Car Magazine (U.K.)
Sent to the 'letters to Editor' email 2023-12-23: CARMAGAZINE.CO.UK IN A BROWSER THE GOOD: Content, photography looks so good on screen THE BAD: Web layout and user interface. SLOW loading times even on fibre, why do I ever see a spinning load wheel? THE UGLY: Poor
Weblogs
A new home for my blogs, Me Dot Net?
My blog is still on TypePad but now, after nearly twenty years of procrastination, are accessed via www.robincapper.net. The story of how that happened is here... A new home for my blogs, Me Dot Net? - RobiNZ CAD Blog (robincapper.net) Updated 2024-09-01: Something broke and seems TypePad
A new home for my blogs, Me Dot Net?
It must be a procrastination record; start a blog in March 2004 and only now get my own domain? Yes, my typepad.com/rcd blogs are now at www.robincapper.net I must credit this toot from NZ IT Journalist Bill Bennett for prompting me to, finally, do it. His
Time Out NZ 2021-22
Vale to my Samsung Active 2 Smart Watch
Vale to my Samsung Active 2 smart watch which finally died today while I was doing housework. Technically is it still alive... I thought the strap had broken but it was the entire watch face dangling off the case, hanging by a ribbon connector! Has been a great device (does