Frog Up or Down

Have you had chance to play with my.sketchup.com lately, I should if I were you, its suddenly becoming a very useful tool. I have left it alone for a month or two, and today I thought lets have a peep and see whats been added, well to my surprise, most of the major tools are there and working well. First is section plane, and scene settings, these work well and the dialog box for playing the scenes is so easy to set. Next is save, now if like me you use Chrome, then you might have to addmy.sketchup.com to the advanced privacy setting to allow it to communicate, but as its a named site ythis is the only one that it will allow. Views works well and all the usual are there, so are styles, and to my mind are easier to use than the stand alone program. Layers are also there and again I find them easy to use and set. The two main menu pallets are simple to use, but not movable, but they work well and as so small they fold away without taking up to much Realestate. As for up...

On the 4th Jan 2017, I left Southampton, on the P & O ship Oceana , for a 35 night cruise to the Caribbean and the USA on what promised to be a really great start to my 65 year. I will turn 65 in October so by my calculations I should have, by now, been created, and will be forming, I would liked to have talked to my mom, and asked her, when she knew she was pregnant, but unfortunately she has dementia and that memory is lost. I had brought with me most of my travelling computing equipment, my MacBook Pro, iPhone, and my Kindle, with the first 6 days after out initial stop in Spain, at sea, I have planned to complete a little work, and start writing a little. The ships WiFi showed up on my Mac, and I logged in, it has been some time since our last cruise, but it looked the same, £12 for 24 hours, fine by me I thought, I will dib into this and let my system catch up, 15 min should be enough to send stored emails, pick up waiting mail, and let Apple save the photos on lin...

In about five weeks, or on the 20th June 2016, all the region CIAT CPD officers will meet in City Road, London, to discuss CPD. As yet I have seen no agenda, but you know me, thats not going to stop me making a list of things I want to talk about, from manufacturers presentations, to real study time, to reading lists, to note taking to building up some sort of personal archive of information. to just an electronic record system. I also want to discus the way BIM seems to be taking hold of CAD, not that thats a bad thing, just the way the "CAD" bit is being dropped and I hear only I am going to BIM this up, not CAD or draw it up. Yet BIM surely should be on the list as it will and is affecting the way we draw, and also with it huge potential for data rules base, or internal / external algorithms, and how it will be shared via IFC. Evernote, or anything similar, is there anything!, should surely be discussed, as the personal archive I mentioned before. Is there a place...

When I first got a computer, it was a commodore 64 , with, little or no memory , no internal disk, just floppy disks with 64K and the idea of a megabyte of memory, a thing of beauty and wonder, The Mac Plus came out and it had a 1mb of memory, truly outstanding. We then saw leaps and bounds over the years, till my latest Mac boasting 1Tb (  Terabyte ), of dish space, and 16 Gb of memory it now seems this is not the end, as machines become so much faster, and memory cheaper, we are going to see an increase in memory and now storage, as cloud space becomes the next big leap in computing, I currently have about 1TB of online storage shared between Dropbox and Google Drive . This article is not about the fast pace, but the buzz words we now are staring to use, : Terabyte,Petabyte,Exabyte,Zettabyte,Yottabyte Notice megabyte is no longer listed, the list starts at Terabyte, for a full list try the Wiki site I