Personal
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Over the weekend I had some more fun with the ray-tracing application I'm writing for my BerkeleyX homework. This time, though, I ended up using AutoCAD to do some debugging (which was an interesting twist). The big problem with debugging an app such as a ray-tracer is that it's hard to picture a complex 3D […]
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As mentioned in this previous post – in-between bouts of preparation for AU2013 and my other work responsibilities – I've been spending time following an edX class on computer graphics. It's been really beneficial: I've shored up some of the basics I'd missed out on studying formally at university and it was a great continuation […]
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To celebrate this year's Halloween, we went along to Instructables (like several million other people – this is the site's big ticket event of the year, apparently) and found a really fun project to make, Halloween chocolate skulls. Living in Switzerland is great, but sometimes I miss the ready availability of various products that we […]
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I recently sailed past my 18-year anniversary at Autodesk. Part of me finds this scary – in this world of post-millennial job-hopping – but then I really enjoy what I do. Long may it last. The company has grown a great deal since I joined (I had to look it up, but it seems that […]
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Well, that was indeed fun. For my first afternoon in Great Malvern visiting one of my favourite Autodesk customers – the Morgan Motor Company – I took a 1/2 day Morgan 3 Wheeler familiarization course. The course was run by a company called 3 Wheel Drive (what a great name 🙂 and involved focused, hands-on […]
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I had a fun Saturday morning, a couple of weeks ago. An old school-friend of my wife's is a partner in a temporary art tattoo business (which hopefully means a business that sells temporary art tattoos rather than a temporary business that sells art tattoos ;-), and they were looking for bald models to help […]
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Another year has come and gone. I managed to miss the 7-year anniversary of "Through the Interface": it's only this morning that I thought to look back and check the day of the first post, and – sure enough – it was June 19, 2006. I have it in my head that it's around late […]
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I've now finished my recent trio of long-haul trips: the San Francisco Bay Area in late April, Singapore in mid-May and Boston in early June. So I can take a breather for a few weeks (maybe even months), at least: I have no firm travel plans until AU, although no doubt something will come up […]
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This isn't new news – it was announced a few weeks ago at NetSuite's SuiteWorld 2013 event – but I thought I'd mention it here mainly because of a personal connection of mine. The announcement was regarding a broad strategic alliance between Autodesk and NetSuite, as well as a specific technology integration between PLM 360 […]
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I'm currently in Boston for an internal technical summit where I'll be presenting sessions on Kinect Fusion and Leap Motion (which will the sessions I've submitted - and will hopefully get accepted - for AU 2013). I arrived a day early and rented a bicycle from the hotel, taking the opportunity to cycle through the […]