Frog Up or Down

Todays headline might all look strange, but bear with me, its not so bad. True the planet is changing and for many it brings untold problems. But for some manufacturers, its an opportunity for new products, that business needs, and a challenge the planet needs them to take up. The increased activity on several levels that humanity has orchestrated by their rampant need to use fuel and not see the damage it caused, the way we discard rubbish,  the single minded view that the planet can absorb what ever pollutant we emit with no problem. But we now know thats not the case, so many good scientists are proving time and time again we have altered the planet, and no matter what we do , its not and easy, fix , what ever we do will not slow down the change, its going to happen, the planets getting warmer. So  governments will meet, spend millions on debate, make huge promises, and argue as to the best solution. But the real power in all this lies not with governments not with...

I am alway interested in reasons for change, so naturally I picked up on the CIC ( Construction Industry Council ) latest report, A Blueprint for Change. Lots to read, with some interesting Stats, and to be honest, some not so interesting. But the one I found really interesting, and a point I shall be pushing to my students is :  More people are due to retire than are joining the industry at a young age; Plenty of reasons for getting into the industry, even though there's alway news of failing contractors and lack or new clients, I still see a bright future for the young professional.  You can download the report here   you need to go to the bottom of the page to see the download button.

In a previous blog, I wrote about having my CAD program, export pdf files with the correct file name, well this nifty little program for the Mac, seems to be an answer. Called " A Better File Renamer ". it seems to offer all I want as a work around. I still would like the CAD program to allow some form of control, but this clearly does the job. Now I think about it, I have a lot of photos that I might just want to use this on.