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Monthly Archives: February 2008

Blogger? Journalist? Whatever!

29 February 2008 at 2:09 pm » Comments (1)

Roopinder Tara has raised an interesting point about how different CAD vendors treat journalists and bloggers. Ralph Grabowski has responded with a "Who cares". Now you have more CAD blogger ...more »

This blog is ugly…

29 February 2008 at 10:42 am » Comments (1)

...if you're using Internet Explorer 7. Thanks to Rick for pointing this out. It looks fine in other browsers, including IE6 and my own preferred browser, Firefox 2. Now I ...more »

Blog comments are now turned on

28 February 2008 at 8:48 pm » Comments (4)

I'm new at this blog stuff, and I got something wrong in the settings. This meant you were allowed to comment as long as you were a registered user, but ...more »

Irony

28 February 2008 at 2:59 pm » Comments (0)

Offered without comment: As far as I can tell, it's genuine. See here: http://www.astrologicalmagazine.com/ more »

Customer Service 2 – Don McMillan

28 February 2008 at 12:56 pm » Comments (1)

My last customer service story was about McDonald's. This one is about Donald Mc., but there the similarity ends. After I returned from Autodesk University 2006, I decided to buy ...more »

AutoCAD on Linux – Video

28 February 2008 at 10:22 am » Comments (10)

Lots of people get excited at the prospect of AutoCAD running under Linux. I'm not one of those people, but for those of you that are, here's a video from ...more »

AutoCAD 2009 – The Prequel Part 4 – More on the Status Bar and Layouts

27 February 2008 at 9:16 pm » Comments (2)

Here are a couple more tricks AutoCAD 2009 has up its Status Bar sleeve, this time to do with layouts. You may love the new Quick View Layouts feature or you ...more »

Thinking of registering a domain name? Just do it!

26 February 2008 at 1:49 pm » Comments (0)

If you are thinking of putting yourself or your company out there with your own domain name (e.g. cadnauseam.com), there are many, many sites out there that allow you to ...more »

Shaan Hurley gets blue

25 February 2008 at 9:28 pm » Comments (0)

Part of an excellent show put on by Autodesk at the end of Autodesk University 2006 was The Blue Man Group. I was so impressed by the show that I ...more »

AutoCAD tip – persuade Open to highlight your drawing

25 February 2008 at 12:03 pm » Comments (1)

In AutoCAD, when you have a drawing open and you go to open another, does Open automatically scroll down and highlight your current drawing? This can be very handy when you're ...more »

AutoCAD 2009 – The Prequel Part 3 – Status Bar Right

24 February 2008 at 9:01 pm » Comments (4)

Having covered the left side of the status bar, let's move onto the other side. Some of it is familiar, but much of it is new or modified. Let's have ...more »

blognauseam.com lives! Plus a web browser tip

23 February 2008 at 8:39 am » Comments (0)

I have registered the domain name blognauseam.com because: a) it will stop anybody else grabbing it; and b) it will make it easier for people to remember the URL if they don't ...more »

Customer Service 1 – McDonald’s

22 February 2008 at 8:07 pm » Comments (0)

I have a few customer service stories to share. Most are about bad service, but one is about very good service indeed. This isn't that story. It's a rant, but ...more »

New blog nauseam feature – AutoCAD tips

21 February 2008 at 5:06 pm » Comments (0)

The top of the blog nauseam page now features a randomly selected AutoCAD tip. There are only a few at the moment, but I will be adding many more as ...more »

Melanie is \m/ too

21 February 2008 at 11:46 am » Comments (3)

I'd like to thank Mistress of the Dorkness Melanie Perry for her kind welcome to the CAD blog world. I appreciate the flattering photo (from Autodesk University 2006) and felt ...more »

Autodesk University 2006 Video

21 February 2008 at 10:41 am » Comments (0)

I didn't make this video and it's old news, but as I contributed some photos and I'm in it, I guess I'm entitled to link to it in my blog ...more »

Lynn Allen’s Famous Cell Phone Story

21 February 2008 at 10:17 am » Comments (7)

Whatever the subject, Autodesk evangelist and fellow Cadalyst writer Lynn Allen always gives a very entertaining and informative presentation. If you attend one and you're lucky, you might get to ...more »

How can I complain about AutoCAD wasting screen space…

20 February 2008 at 7:50 am » Comments (0)

...when this blog layout is wasting so much more of it? OK, I haven't complained about AutoCAD doing that (not here, anyway). Yet. But I will. First, I need to get ...more »

AutoCAD 2009 – The Prequel Part 2 – Status Bar Left

19 February 2008 at 9:16 pm » Comments (0)

Enough of linking to other peoples' observations about AutoCAD 2009, here are some of mine. There is a lot I don't like about AutoCAD 2009, and I will be covering ...more »

AutoCAD 2009 – The Prequel Part 1 – Links

19 February 2008 at 3:57 pm » Comments (1)

AutoCAD 2009 is about a month away, but people with pre-release copies are already allowed to start talking about the product. I intend to do so soon, but for now ...more »
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