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The end of March means it is blog’iversary time again. Eleven years since my first tentative post. If anyone is to blame, and thank, for all this it is Shaan Hurley. I read his Between the Lines AutoCAD blog before I really knew what a blog was. It prompted
I’ve updated my blogs to a new responsive layout using a beta TypePad Responsive Theme Builder. Responsive Design lets the site to resize and reflow to a variety of screen sizes (below right). The old template just cropped the view and added scroll bars (below left). Responsive TypePad TypePad
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I remember making that first Kiva loan and didn’t think that seven years later would have made over 500 loans (many reinvested). What I find amazing, given the tough circumstances of many borrowers, is less than 1% default. Thanks to RobiNZ blog readers and advertisers. Seven years ago today,
This wasn’t my idea but I think it is a good one! AutoCAD Blogger Council member Melanie came up with the idea of tweeting the day in the life of a CAD Dork. You can find the others with the #CADdork tag on Twitter and Facebook. I was going
Another year has flown by and it is 2015. Time to look back at 2014 from a bloggy (not just CAD) perspective: Best Blog Event: It was great to meet fellow AutoCAD bloggers in March for an introduction to AutoCAD 2015 and a look behind the scenes of how it
Recently I’ve had different Facebook Friends post about; * Cyber bullying * Their Parent dying Facebook’s algorithms decided these posts were not important to me and hid them in the Newsfeed ‘Top Stories’ mode (which I gather is the default). It seems more ‘popular’ (from the same people) or ‘liked’
Amazing visualisation of Kiva Loans Intercontinental Ballistic Microfinance from Kiva on Vimeo.
March 31st means it is blog’iversary time again. I find it hard to believe a decade has passed by since that first tentative post. It was rather special to spend a few days last week with the Shaan Hurley (on the left wearing a cap below), who inspired me
Watching the launch web presentation, live
Kiva
TypePad was briefly off-line this week but was pretty much fixed by the time I saw this tweet: We really appreciate our bloggers - through this frustrating downtime you have been gracious, witty, and tenacious. Thank you very much!March 5, 2014 They were subject to a distributed denial of
While not CAD related thought this post by Dare might be of interest. Have you noticed adverts showing up that relate to other sites and wondered how that happens? How Facebook Knows What You Looked at on Amazon - www.25hoursaday.com As part of my day job at Microsoft, I&
The video shows what Kiva microloans are about and some of the proceeds* from this blog are allocated to a Kiva Lending Team. 2013 was a big year for Kiva and closed with a significant milestone for the blog team. Thanks for your support 10,000 times over. [youtube=://www.