Category: miscellaneous

  • Microsoft weighs in

    Didn’t know Eddie was blogging, but it seems he noticed our little news yesterday.  I agree Eddie, we have come along way.

  • Really good parody web site

    This is one of the funniest parody web sites I have seen in a long time. Get a First Life: A One Page Satire of Second Life Inkheart movies

  • Finally a way to justify my procrastination

    As an engineer (by degree anyway) this was all I needed: a formula to project what I will procrastinate on! Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Why Do Today What You Can Put Off Until Tomorrow — A 10-year study of procrastination provides insights into–and a formula for–human motivation

  • A faster way to get to work

    Many of you may know that I moved last year a bit farther away from my office last year so we could get the farm we had been looking for.  I have about a 100 mile round trip commute each day.  The nice thing about it is that I am traveling against traffic each way…

  • Bad experience with BatteryGeek

    UPDATE: Not sure if this is a demonstration of the power of a blog or not, but I just got an email from the BatteryGeek guys that my new battery is on its way.  I’ll provide another update when it comes.  Hopefully this one will work better than the last. I posted in the fall…

  • Next year's Christmas list

    Is it too early to add some requests for next year’s Christmas list?  If not, I want one: ThrustPac – Empower Yourself True Colors full

  • Google making more 3D Connections

    This today from Official Google Blog: Super models wanted.  In a move that should surprise no one, Google has cast an open call for 3D models to be submitted by users of their Sketch-up product, acquired last year, to be posted to their Google Earth service. While they still have a lot of features missing,…

  • I'm number 12!

    .!. Wow, I’m the number 12 CAD blog…I didn’t even know I was a CAD blog ;-). Just to be perfectly clear again, calling this a CAD blog (or a PLM blog, etc.) is a bit of a misnomer.  This is a personal blog: I write about things that are interesting to me.  Since I…

  • It's that time again – sales kickoff!

    I find myself in Dallas again for my first trip of the new year.  I obviously had too long of a layoff from traveling as I forgot both my dress socks and my black belt (I normally despise hotel gift shops, but in this case they were a godsend). Our global sales kickoff started today…