I was interested to see Shaan Hurley reporting the Ribbon usage figures from the Customer Involvement Program (CIP). Shaan’s figures show Ribbon non-users at 46%, my poll results show it as 71%. Why the discrepancy? Is somebody telling fibs? I don’t think so.
First, blog nauseam poll respondents represent a biased sample, comprising people who are [...]

Looking at the comments, it seems not everyone is happy with the Matt Stein interview. If so, I’m sorry you feel that way about the piece. In my own defence, I would point out the following:

I like to think my work at Cadalyst represents a balanced viewpoint. I pride myself on being fair. Whether Autodesk [...]

No, I don’t mean it’s a deeply emotional experience, however true that may be for certain CAD geeks (who will remain nameless to protect the dorky). What I mean is that it’s moving in the fourth dimension, and possibly the other three too. This will be no news for several hundred of you, but it [...]

I see Lynn Allen has written a post explaining how to restore the “classic” interface. I commend Lynn for doing this in response to the requests she’s been receiving. It must be pretty painful for some people at Autodesk to see their Technical Evangelist showing people how to turn off AutoCAD 2009’s Big New Feature, [...]

I noticed in Ralph Grabowski’s latest upFront.eZine that Autodesk has announced that 100 developers have 200 add-ons working with its 2009 series of software. I hope I’m not supposed to be impressed by those numbers. I remember when Autodesk boasted about having over 3500 third-party developers. What happened to the other 3400-odd? This is a [...]

If you saw my post or Shaan Hurley’s post about this utility and grabbed it on or before 27 April, please go and grab it again. It’s been updated to fix a couple of bugs.

If you’re an AutoCAD 2008 user you probably already know what the title refers to. If not, you probably don’t need to know. If your drawings are afflicted, I suggest you hop over to Between the Lines, grab the scale list cleanup utility and start cleaning up. Although I’ve found that this utility works very [...]

I generally dislike blogs that just regurgitate contents from elsewhere, so I’m going against the grain here to repost something from Shaan Hurley’s Between the Lines blog.
Shaan has been a bit quiet over the past few weeks, but has recently made up for this with a vengeance. A flurry of new posts has pushed this [...]

I was intrigued to see Autodesk personality and fellow blogger Shaan Hurley posting a photo with his long-standing facial fuzz removed. Shaan may be moving in the opposite direction to myself (I’m getting hairier with age), but personally I don’t think he has gone far enough. I would like to see Shaan sporting a chrome [...]

In a recent blog post, Roopinder Tara included this throw-away comment:
Pure bloggers don’t do advertising, so no worry about advertising pressure — the secret and unstated fear of us all in the trade press.
I respect Roopinder, but this kind of “pure blogger” label irritates me. I have an ad on my blog for geeky T-shirts, [...]

Heres more pedantism of a grammatarian nature for you’re pleasure:
Apostrophe Abuse
The Grammar Vandal
Apostrophism
Enjoy!

As a “grammar Nazi”, I must say I “love” this “blog”.
http://quotation-marks.blogspot.com/

A belated thank you to Kiwi Robin Capper for his welcome to the CAD blog world. Here’s a snap I took of Robin at Autodesk University 2006:

Similarly, thanks to Lynn Allen for linking to my post about her famous Cell Phone Story. Here she is, also at AU 2006, presenting me with a signed copy [...]

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 navel gazing to put up with as I have my say on the matter.
As a traditional magazine journalist (Cadalyst, 1995 - present) and now as [...]

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 compelled to return the favour.

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 here are a few mentions I found:
http://autodesk.blogs.com/between_the_lines/2008/02/the-2009-produc.html
http://lynn.blogs.com/lynn_allens_blog/2008/02/autocad-2009-is.html
http://lynn.blogs.com/lynn_allens_blog/2008/02/the-autocad-200.html
http://heidihewett.blogs.com/my_weblog/2008/02/the-word-is-out.html
http://heidihewett.blogs.com/my_weblog/2008/02/autocad-2009-a.html
http://discussion.autodesk.com/thread.jspa?threadID=643193
http://discussion.autodesk.com/thread.jspa?threadID=643871
http://mistressofthedorkness.blogspot.com/2008/02/some-autocad-2009-thoughts.html
http://rcd.typepad.com/rcd/2008/02/time-flies-its.html
http://rkmcswain.blogspot.com/2008/02/autocad-2009-in-2-minutes.html
http://worldcadaccess.typepad.com/blog/2008/02/autodesk-worl-1.html
http://worldcadaccess.typepad.com/blog/2008/02/autocad-2009.html
http://www.theswamp.org/index.php?PHPSESSID=31k5jnveooq0qn8ecci6i72o34&topic=21356.0
http://forums.cadalyst.com/showthread.php?t=5808
http://thecadgeek.com/blog/2008/02/13/introduction-to-the-autocad-2009-ribbon/
http://cadit.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/02/autocad-2009–.html
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