The time has come to shutdown...
I’m not going to participate in the March 24th Shutdown Day as I’m going further and having a Shutdown Week! I will be cycling in the South Island with Adventure South . The blue dashed line on the...
Weblogs
Design and Art
Lucire 22 Cover - Design tuning by blog?
I got to know Jack Yan via his media appearances, his blog, his prolific commenting on my “ other blog ” and email but we’ve never actually met. One of his many roles is publisher of the Kiwi based gl...
A Kiwi who blogs for a living...
Back in January I posted in response to Franco Folini’s post: “Don't Quit Your Day Job to Start a CAD Blog” If you’re considering doing that this interview with Richard MacManus, a professional Kiw...
Category Management for new 2008 names
I’ve revised some of my blog categories (indexes) to reflect some recent name changes: Architectural Desktop changes to AutoCAD Architecture Revit changes to Revit Architecture Building Sy...
Is it 2037? - Are TIME mixed up about time
Einstein was right, Time is relative! It’s nearly 2008 for Autodesk and a TIME news feed is sending stories from 2037 to my RSS reader? Winter Storm Blasts Ohio Valley Published: on Saturday,...
Web/Tech
Web 2.0, HTML, XML, Mashup? - What's that all about?
I’ve read many discussions about “Web 2.0” and what it can enable but to be honest it never really clicked until I saw this. A brilliant video explains and demonstrates it all in about 4 minutes. W...
Last weeks Top 10 - Jan 29 – Feb 04
The Top Gear Stig http://rcd.typepad.com/personal/2005/05/the_top_gear_st.html 440 +5% FIAT http://rcd.typepad.com/personal/fiat/index.html 59 +34% Automobile http://rcd.typepad.com/personal/...
Last weeks Top 10 - Jan 29 – Feb 04
I’ve read that some find these lists of use (?) so here are the Top 10 Page visits: Monday, Jan 29 – Sunday, Feb 04 http://rcd.typepad.com/rcd/ 208 +0% AutoCAD http://rcd.typepad.com/rcd/auto...
A new BlogJet and a Coding Robot?
Apart from when I’m travelling, computer-less, every post seen on this blog since January 2005 has been composed with BlogJet - an off-line composition tool. BlogJet 2 has just been released but I’ve...
Blogging helps people help people - Whale Rider, a Blog and a helpful Author
I received an email, via the blog, from Swedish Television regarding a subtitles they are preparing for the film Whale Rider . They queried the meaning of a couple of Maori words – one I thought wa...
5 things "Memebuster"
Meme: An idea which mutates, is inherited like a gene and spreads like a virus I think it’s funny the “ 5 CAD things… ” meme*, which started with this post , is spreading across the CAD Blogosph...
5 [CAD] Things You Didn't Know About Me
Rick Stavanja (of http://cadwire.net ) tagged me for the Bloggers “ 5 Things You Didn't Know About Me ” meme. I’d already been tagged but as that appeared on my personal blog I decided to do another “...