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• Follow me!

  2009 Nov 13

  Chirp, chirp… While I was figuring out how to make best use of all things Web 2.0, I found that Twitter is a great way for me to broadcast quick news items related to my blog’s topics (AEC-CAD, timber engineering, design and web stuff). So whenever something is too short for a blog post but [...]

• Wood Design Award 2008-09 book is available

  2009 Nov 12

  Just after I posted about the current wood awards, the Canadian Wood Council came out with a book showcasing winners from the 2008-09 season. These books are always a beautiful reference and source for many inspirations. If you want to get one, follow this link. I have also been told that students get a 40% reduction on [...]

• Awards, awards! The 2009 Wood Awards season is here

  2009 Nov 09

  Awarded Admittedly, award ceremonies come around at all times during the year, but two of the recent and notable awards for wood building and architecture were the UK Wood Design Awards (October 2009) and the Ontario Wood Awards (November 2009, also written up here). Of all the amazing buildings (and furniture) that have received an award, the [...]

• Fall Harvest

  2009 Oct 12

  Today we drove a bit around our area. As you can see it’s fall in New England… You can see more of my photograhy on flickr or on my photo page. Post tags: Design, Design, life, photography, travel Related posts Playing with birds in the cloud (0) Oh, the newbies… (0) no4card – UMass honors Andrew Card (0) Everything is Data (0) Autodesk [...]

• Web-Based Application trials from Autodesk – A Great Idea!

  2009 Oct 07

  And the good ideas keep on coming! As just announced by Autodesk Labs in their post Project Twitch Range Expanded: can YOU connect?, Autodesk extended the range of their application tryout platform “Twitch” beyond the originally stated 1000 mile radius. Now user connection capability is just limited by a network latency cutoff. And as [...]