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Ralph Lauren – genuinely dumb or trying to be clever?

8 October 2009 at 2:50 pm » Comments (0)

One of the blogs I read regularly is Photoshop Disasters, which recently posted a picture of a Ralph Lauren ad. In common with many fashion photos, this showed a skinny ...more »

A touch of Tehran taints the AUGI Special Election

23 June 2009 at 2:28 pm » Comments (6)

Most of you reading this blog are fortunate enough to live in democracies, and can only look on with sympathy at those who are denied the right to choose who ...more »

The 12-month cycle and shipping software with known bugs

15 June 2009 at 1:49 pm » Comments (9)

In a recent blog post, Deelip Menezes appears to be shocked by the very idea that a particular CAD company (no, not Autodesk) would ship software that contains known bugs. ...more »

Autodesk’s Revit rebellion reaction

26 May 2009 at 1:33 pm » Comments (11)

It's time to examine how Autodesk has reacted to the widespread criticism of Revit 2010. Is Autodesk listening? To be more specific, is Autodesk's Revit team listening? The Good It has been ...more »

AUGI World’s missing column

21 May 2009 at 4:54 pm » Comments (1)

Despite living in troubled times, AUGI is managing to keep its AUGI World publication going, at least in electronic form. The printed edition, which was previously available only in North ...more »

Autodesk messes up Raster Design 2010 licensing

20 April 2009 at 4:40 pm » Comments (10)

I was horrified to learn (in this Autodesk Discussion Group thread) that Autodesk has changed the rules as far as the way Raster Design licenses are handled. It's quite possible ...more »

Death to robo-responses!

5 March 2009 at 2:57 pm » Comments (3)

The responses to Carol Bartz's blog post are an interesting read, and not just because of the astonishing amount of attention being paid to her language. One person pointed out ...more »

I’m supporting the New Zealand blackout

17 February 2009 at 4:07 pm » Comments (4)

Thanks to Robin Capper for bringing this to my attention. http://creativefreedom.org.nz/blackout.html Disclosure: I'm a software developer, artist (of sorts), copyright owner and part of a company that sells software to allow copyright ...more »

What a crock!

17 November 2008 at 9:57 pm » Comments (8)

Just when I thought it wasn't possible for my Autodesk discussion group experience to get any worse, it has. Much worse. I stated before that in the 15 November update, some ...more »

Autodesk discussion group maintenance failure

17 November 2008 at 12:51 pm » Comments (9)

I must admit that I wasn't really expecting the November 15 Autodesk discussion group maintenance effort to come up with the goods and make everything all better again. However, it ...more »

Autodesk discussion groups – signs of life?

30 October 2008 at 10:58 am » Comments (0)

After an extraordinarily long period of total silence about the dreadful state of the appallingly-updated Autodesk discussion groups, it seems that the sleeping monster has raised an eyelid. Although it ...more »

The three Fs of customer service

29 October 2008 at 8:57 pm » Comments (4)

I had another interesting customer service experience at the weekend. We had booked an electrician well in advance to service our air conditioner and change a bunch of light fittings. ...more »

The Autodesk discussion groups are awful

21 October 2008 at 2:38 pm » Comments (3)

Yes, the Autodesk discussion groups are still awful. In other breaking news, the Pacific Ocean continues to be wet. I seldom visit them any more, but I just hopped on to ...more »

Why I won’t buy another Canon all-in-one printer

21 October 2008 at 1:10 pm » Comments (7)

Last year, I bought a Canon MP830 printer/scanner/copier/fax/tea maker/whatever for my home office. I chose this particular device because it had all the features I was after, including CD printing, ...more »

Slight improvement in discussion group search

8 October 2008 at 5:55 pm » Comments (2)

While almost all of the problems with the Autodesk discussion groups remain, there are some signs of movement in one area at least. The search facility, which until recently refused ...more »

Here’s a couple I didn’t mention earlier

3 October 2008 at 4:15 pm » Comments (0)

The Autodesk discussion group editor inserts spaces into URLs longer than a certain size (about 70 characters, it seems). It will insert spaces in one place for the URL that ...more »

Discussion group search – partial workaround

3 October 2008 at 11:54 am » Comments (3)

The Autodesk discussion group search facility is still impersonating an industrial suction pump in a puddle. It sucks very hard and produces little useful output. In addition to the problems ...more »

How not to do a web update

1 October 2008 at 3:44 pm » Comments (4)

If you're a major company and your various web-based services have evolved over time, you may have a proliferation of user IDs and some other issues to tidy up. You may ...more »

Autodesk discussion group links – feedback and bookmarks

26 September 2008 at 12:36 pm » Comments (1)

The Autodesk discussion groups are currently working. They are also still irresponsibly displaying people's email addresses as visible user names. If you've posted to the discussion groups in the past, ...more »

More Autodesk discussion group angst

24 September 2008 at 4:14 pm » Comments (3)

When you start using the new AutoCAD discussion groups, in addition to the broken search facility, you will have other issues to deal with. There's a new editor with lots ...more »
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