Frog Up or Down

  Architectural Drawings - Security of information Will CAD and security survive   Introduction The information embeded into any Architectural drawing is sometimes a security problem for all of the construction team, including the client if it was ever released to the wrong people. In days before CAD, drawing were printed, folded and sent via post to who ever needed them, along with a distribution list, often many drawings were printed, I know this because as a junior in a practice in 1970, I spent hours on a maching printing folding and organising the distribution. In this article we look at the transition of architectural drawings from paper to digital created an IP and integrity crisis that can only be solved by adopting the Golden Thread of Information. and beyond. This article is intended to create a thread for your Knowledge base research, I have included a link to my conversation with Google Gemini, my prefered AI. There is a lot going on, and the more I read, the more ...

Leica disto EDM Reading, I read a lot, no I read continuously, from daily papers to the weekend papers and their glossy magazines, I read book like they are going out of fashion! both in good old paper format! but so often these days, in electronic version! mostly from amazon! although I have tried Apple I read flicker, Zite, and almost any news feed for my subject list, and many I transfer to evernote! again building up my personal knowledge base. I scour old book shops for books, picking up such classics as old construction manuals, and the classic AJ metric handbook. I even scan in old trade magazines, just in case I want to refer to them. My repository is Evernote, and for the most part it's very easy to retrieve, yet what happens to my personal archive should I ever fall out with Evernote! that's a question I so often think of, but as yet have no answer to, so I continue to load up information. My driving goal is the research I do, on a variety of subjects, I us...

In December 2016 I compared Google keep to my then, usual data repository, Evernote , and microsoft's one note plus apples notes. Since then, some three month have passed and I have kept up a duel usage with just Evernote and keep. The other two just lack  in there use with me, apples product is a good note keeper but lacks some how in comparison. And one note, well t just would not sync with my iPad and iPhone . So it was keep and Evernote. Evernote is huge, I have so much tucked away in it, but finding it was sometimes a chore, it searches just to well, and I could never remember how to limit the search engine enough to weed out all but what I wanted to see. Keep is well simpler, easier to search, but what gained my attention was the simple way it now integrates with Google Dock as a side panel, allowing such an easy way to drag all or a portion into the doc. I will stay with Evernote, I have so much tucked away, but in the Lastweek, I find myself using keep more and mor...