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Charlie Rose with Bill Gates, more than just Microsoft

I found this converstation, from December 2008, with a post-Microsoft Bill Gates well worth viewing. While it starts with well trodden Microsoft related topics (inc Vista Google) the latter sections o... Read more →

TypePad changes & BlogJet settings

Last week odd characters like ‘ and …started appearing in my blog posts instead of punctuation marks like ' and ... I suspect it's due to some change in the publish process as I've been migrated to... Read more →

Windows Live Writer, nice price but not for me

If you are serious about blogging an off-line editor is an essential tool. TypePad have a good on-line editor but I rarely use it as it’s still slow cumbersome in comparison to a local editor. As a... Read more →

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... Read more →

This is a Test?

I’m not sure why I read Civil3d blogs when I don’t use it but you never know what gem’s you may find. Take this disturbing test post by James Wedding who was trying Microsoft Live Writer. This post wa... Read more →

BlogJet update soon...

Dimtry has posted some preview videos showing a new version of BlogJet which must be due within a month. BlogJet is a weblog client for Windows that allows you to compose and manage blog posts without... Read more →

Blogging Tools & Process

I read a couple of posts, at Notes, links and conversation & What Is New, asking how people create and manage blog content. I thought I’d share how I use a combination of tools for this. Revision 26–02–2006: Added map to the extended post First get an idea for a post! Posts start out in many ways but some, like this one, are inspired by other blogs. Often people ask how & where I find stuff on the net but the truth is thanks to RSS it finds me. RSS Bandit is the tool that lets me monitor literally hundreds... Read more →

BlogJet Upgrade - Version 1.6

While I was away at AU Dmitry released an upgrade to BlogJet. It’s the off-line Blog editor I’ve been using to author every post seen here, and the other blog, since I purchased it back in January 2005. I’ve been using the new BlogJet “Lime” v1.6 (why is the code name Lime?) through December and have found some refinements which make life even easier… BlogJet works with all leading weblog services allowing posts to be composed “off-line” in a WYSIWYG interface similar to a word processor. Images, hyper-links and other post features are easily created locally ready to post. If... Read more →

2005 Blogging Highlights

Seems like the time of year to do a Blog related review of the year so here goes… Best Discovery: ActiveWords, it’s awesome software. If you haven’t tried it, go and get your 60 day free trial right now. I held out for a whole 12 days before purchasing and now would not use a PC without it. Thanks to Hobie at Mindjet for introducing me to it. Best Blog Event: It’s not a blog specific event but meeting many fellow CAD Bloggers and Readers(!) at Autodesk University was a highlight. Best Comment: On my most commented and most visited... Read more →

"Real World" DWF Resolution Findings

Prompted by Shaan's post on DWF precision I’ve been testing to see what impact increasing the DPI has in “real world” conditions. So far I’ve found ramping the DPI up to fairly huge values does increase the DWF file size, but not as much as I expected, and seems to have only a slight impact on plot file sizes. We draw on A1 sheet at 1mm = 1 AutoCAD unit typically with a 1:200 viewport. For a real world comparison I created a DWF from a store layout at various resolutions then measured a known length in Autodesk Composer aiming... Read more →