The Mighty Uno

But I need the big SUV/Ute/Truck for today's rough suburban roads...

The USA becomes a fascist state

Trump’s new order on domestic terrorism really means fascism has arrived in the USA.

All the Ben's music

Ben Tangle's "All Of Our Chances" Single out today

Hello Ghost!

This is RobiNZ Blogs, the new home for my (formerly TypePad hosted) blogs and my future blogging.

Farewell TypePad, thanks for the memories

4,748 posts, ~2.1 million views, so many memories

ClassicItalia & Hobson Bay wandering

Went for a walk between the cars & lunch

Mark Hadlow's GOMIL is a triumph

One man, one bike, one stage, spinning thought provoking humour

On the move, TypePad shutting down

My blog(s) will be on the move as TypePad, who've hosted them since the first post in March 2004, is closing down. For me this is just a hobby, is going to be quite a disruption for any commercial users. I can't complain given TypePad

Character amnesia and the death of handwriting?

Have you forgotten how to write? I pretty much have, cursive lower case anyway! When I did my Product Design Diploma, for three years, it was a requirement that all submissions (not just drawings) were printed. I pretty much converted to upper case printing for all my writing and never

The true 'The Penguin Lessons' movie story

The Lives Less Ordinary podcast has true story that inspired the delightful movie 'The Penguin Lessons' with Steve Coogan & Jonathan Pryce. Spoilers if you haven't seen it already but knowing won't reduce your enjoyment if do. I loved this movie, both for itself

Sports hydration, my cycling drink mix vindicated!

Loved this episode of Sliced Bread: Do drinks and powders with electrolytes help to hydrate you better? from BBC Radio 4. Greg Foote speaks to Graeme Close, Professor of Human Physiology and Head of the Research Institute for Sports and Exercise Sciences at Liverpool John Moores University, and after a

Slow opening Revit Autodesk Construction Cloud Structural files? Of course it was the storage disk sector size!

Get a nice new certified CAD mobile workstation, put a trusted, much used, deployment of Autodesk AEC Collection Apps (AutoCAD, Civil 3D, Revit, Navisworks etc) on it and all appears fine until... * Go to open a small (26mb) Revit structural project file from Autodesk Construction Cloud and it takes 30-35