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Welcome to CAD Industry writer Ralph Grabowski to the world of blogs

Welcome aboard the blogging phenominon with WorldCAD Access - Talking about CAD. I would like to think including my blog link in an email before Christmas may have inspired you in some simple way to look at the technology. What will happen to the weekly email ezine UpFront eZine? I surely would not want to lose either option. I look forward to checking your blog by visiting and also with an RSS aggregator when you get around to enabling a... Read more →

Back to work.

Well my holiday vacation is now officially over and it is back to work I go. I had a great holiday and look forward to a great new year of exciting projects. Interesting Link: Raw Photo feeds from the NASA Mars Exploration Rover "Spirit" Panoramic Image from Mars Cheers, -Shaan Read more →

More on 64-bit Processors and AutoCAD

I am posting more on the 64-bit CPUs that are slowly coming to market from both Intel & AMD. I mentioned the AMD Opteron and the increased performance with standard AutoCAD 2004 in my post to this blog on October 25th 2003 "64 bit Computers & AutoCAD". I was hoping that the 64-bit platform would offer a 128-bit double precision floating point allowing for 30-32 digit double extended precision. Unfortunately it does not in either the Intel or AMD processors... Read more →

Mars Exploration Rover Spirit had landed successfully on Mars!

Congratulations NASA! "Controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory clelebrated Saturday night after receiving confirmation that the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit had landed successfully on Mars. Signals from the spacecraft's UHF antenna indicated the spacecraft had rolled to a stop right side up, simplifying the deployment procedures." Link -Shaan Read more →

Today's Geek Lunch in Wine Country

I just got back from todays lunch in Healdsburg located in the wine country of Northern Sonoma County. I met some really great people including Dori Smith co-author of the book Mac OS X Unwired, Robert Scoble of Microsoft and his blog The Scobalizer Blog , Bill Humphries of Apple and a few other very nice people. There was a few hours of great and active conversation on a number of geeky topics and I got to get a picture... Read more →

Blogging and RSS — The "What's It?" and "How To" of Powerful New Web Tools for Educators

Here is a great article on blogging and what it is and how it can be used for education. Blogging and RSS — The "What's It?" and "How To" of Powerful New Web Tools for Educators Click Here Cheers, -Shaan Read more →

Week of Rest Coming to an End....

Autodesk will be back from the annual week of rest on Monday January 5th. It is nice getting a little over a week to do as I want and spend time with the family over the holidays. I have also had the time to do some serious geeky reading and experimentation. Cheers, -Shaan Read more →

Wine Country Geek Lunch in the North Bay Saturday January 3rd

Robert Scoble (a Microsoft evangelist and serious hardcore blogger) is holding an informal lunch here in the North Bay wine country tomorrow. I plan on going as it is always great to meet new people and discuss geeky technology subjects. For those that have not visited Robert's blog "The Scobleizer" it is a very interesting blog of comments and topics and I truly enjoy Robert's openess and discussions about Microsoft and many different technologies. I always find myself reading his... Read more →

First Post of 2004 - Happy New Years Everyone!

Well the West Coast has now rang in the new year. I hope everyone has a safe new years day and a better year than the last. Also please note it will take me the next 9 months to stop writing 2003 in my email and documents... And now some of my new years resolutions... Catch up on my email, I promise. I get almost a hundred a day and try not to get too far behind. Post more product... Read more →