I don’t usually repost a full blog post but the one you see below is rather important to the future of this blog! Six Apart (Typepad’s owner) are “joining forces” with “media” (advertising company) VideoEgg. Mergers can bring good or bad. I hope this means a better TypePad
I thought thecadgeek had turned (90º) green and moved to Wellington but it was just Twitter Avatar confusion with Stuff Tech in New Zealand. Donnie is getting married and launching his first book in the near future. Congratulations and Best Wishes for both momentous events!
AutoCAD
NOTE 2010-10-02: This partial article was lurking unpublished in my drafts folder. I have posted it, backdated to when it was written, for reference now the AutoCAD WS application is live. If nothing else will show how the app & service have evolved Butterfly is a preview of a cloud
UPDATE 2010-04-20: Back to full speed broadband. How did we ever do anything with dial-up! Thank you to @VodafoneNZ for the 3G data (part of my iPhone plan) that kept me sane/going through the slowdown! This was tweeted but I’ll capture it here: @TelecomNZ Instead of "You&
Now just to hope Vodafone data coverage reaches the stages!
Be sure to register for a webcast with Autodesk CEO Carl Bass and Senior VP Amar Hanspal coming up this week. Last year I had the privilege of seeing a similar event live (a webcast without the web!) and the effort that goes into production was amazing. This year I’
Web/Tech
Read that Microsoft have removed Bing iPhone from the app store outside the US. No big loss because it never worked. Are they serious about search on platforms other than Windows?
Below are two photos of the Milford Sound Rd heading from Homer Tunnel to Milford Sound. The first was taken just before a thrilling 800m to 0m (sea level) 8km mountain bike descent, part of the Adventure South Milford Wilderness trip. I have also done this in the car (fun
The Warehouse Group Ltd
I wonder if Stephen knew I’ll need to download GB of cad software in the future? Pacific Fibre – It Had to Happen at diversity.net.nz “Anyone that follows the New Zealand domestic web space will have noticed a crescendo about international bandwidth…” “Announced this morning is Pacific Fibre,
Windows
I had a weird Internet Explorer problem the other night. It would load some sites fine but others connected, then got no further than this message: “Website found. Waiting for reply”. The Waiting eventually timed out with a connection timeout error. It wasn’t the connection (other sites worked), the
Web/Tech
I must be getting old… Remember when AutoCAD came on a few floppy disks? Then a handful of CDs, or a DVD? I just finished building CAD application deployments that would require about 26,624 floppy disks. Admittedly it was AutoCAD Architecture/MEP, Revit Arch/MEP and 3DS Max (plus
Come on Microsoft, it's been months now!
