I’m curious. What do you think I think about the Ribbon, particularly in AutoCAD? Do you think I’m a hater, a lover, indifferent, or what? Now, on what evidence do you base that view? Feel free to quote back to me anything I’ve written on this blog or any other public place to support [...]
 19 April 2010, 1:26 pm |  9 comments | Tags: Navel Gazing, Ribbon, User Interface | Category: AutoCAD, Navel Gazing One of the things my blog’s WordPress dashboard shows me is a list of incoming links, i.e. who is pointing to this blog. One line intrigued me: unknown linked here saying, “318 random votes.. http://www.blog.cadnauseam.com/ …” Clicking on the link took me to the Autodesk Discussion Groups, but only as far as this message: [...] 6 April 2010, 10:08 am | 4 comments | Tags: Autodesk, Navel Gazing, Newsgroups | Category: Autodesk, Navel Gazing, Other Sites, Web Stuff According to David Cohn, at yesterday’s blogger event in San Fransisco prior to the 2011 launch, Autodesk provided the following figures: 76,000 man hours spent on Q/A of the new release 6,000 total code reviews of new release 2,000 commands tested 4,600 Beta customers involved in AutoCAD 2011 1.4M lines of old code were [...] 26 March 2010, 5:41 pm | 2 comments | Tags: AutoCAD 2011, Blogging, Navel Gazing, Other Blogs, Uncritical thinking | Category: AutoCAD 2011, Autodesk, Fail, Navel Gazing, Other Blogs, Spin, Thoughts The past few days haven’t been so great for me. Here’s what has happened lately: A family member had an expensive musical instrument case burned when it was placed too close to a stage light. As I was driving home on Monday to escape a major oncoming storm, my car was hit out of [...] My first computer was a Dragon 32, which I think I bought in 1982. With a massive 32 kilobytes of RAM and a proper typewriter keyboard, it was quite advanced for a home computer of the time. The Commodore 64 may have had more RAM, but a lot of it was grabbed by its [...] 14 May 2009, 6:04 pm | 8 comments | Tags: Computing, Hardware, Navel Gazing, Nostalgia, Programming | Category: Hardware, Navel Gazing, Nostalgia This is one of those awful self-indulgent blog posts you hate, so just skip it and read the more interesting stuff a bit further down instead. It is now a year since I started this blog and this is my 200th post. Here are the site statistics for 2008: Here they are for [...] 18 February 2009, 10:17 pm |  One comment | Tags: Navel Gazing | Category: Navel Gazing, Thoughts, Web Stuff As many of you may know, I’ve been writing for Cadalyst since 1995. Yesterday, I read in David Cohn’s summary of the history of Cadalyst that in 1991, Lionel Johnston sold CADalyst to Aster Publishing for $2.2 million. How times have changed! Today, current owner Questex doesn’t think it’s worth keeping alive. I’ve been [...] 17 February 2009, 9:30 am | 6 comments | Tags: Cadalyst, Navel Gazing | Category: Cadalyst, Navel Gazing, Other Sites, Thoughts, Writing 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. [...] 13 June 2008, 4:12 pm | Leave a comment | Tags: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Cadalyst, Interview, Journalism, Matt Stein, Navel Gazing, User Interface | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Comments, Interview, Navel Gazing, Other Blogs 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 [...] 29 February 2008, 2:09 pm | One comment | Tags: Blogging, Freebies, Journalism, Navel Gazing, Ralph Grabowski, Roopinder Tara | Category: Navel Gazing, Other Blogs, Web Stuff |
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Blogging = arrogance?
Here’s a quote from somebody I know:
Blogging is an inherently arrogant concept. It implies that your opinion is worth more than that of other people.
At the risk of offending all my blogging friends, I’m not sure this is an entirely inaccurate viewpoint. Discuss!