Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…
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Home Project Update
I find myself 2 days ahead of schedule for my around the house/farm project list. The fence is installed, the stalls are roughed in and the new light is up on the barn. I even got it wired in and it worked with the first flip of the switch (anyone who took elements of electrical…
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There's more than just me
While I appreciate the link, I don’t want anyone to think that I am a blogger for UGS. Yes, I do work at UGS and yes I do blog about things that I find interesting in the course of my work at UGS, but this is my blog (not UGS’s) and I say what I…
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Holiday
.!. Yesterday was my last official day at work for the year. Yes, I am one of those people that didn’t take their vacation through the year and since we have a “use it or lose it policy” at UGS, I am using it. So the posts may be light in the next few weeks…
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Google opens another front on the (secret) war with Microsoft
While they still don’t admit they are targeting Office (although I was using Google spreadsheets yesterday and it was a great experience), Google unleashed their latest salvo on Microsoft, this time targeting developers. This is an interesting play right in the backyard of Microsoft = developers. Google Web Toolkit – Build AJAX apps in the…
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Ralph noticed…did you?
.!. WorldCAD Access: IBM Expands Presence in PLM
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Data exchange
There’s something more to this than I can put into words right now. The idea of posting data sets for all to use is amazingly interesting to me. I guess all those years of regression analysis in Quattro Pro while in engineering school are coming back to haunt me. Whatever it is, the idea of…
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3DMojo – taking more swipes at PLM marketing
.!. Well a few weeks ago it the guys over at 3DMojo had a problem with “express”. Now they have a problem with “turnkey “. While I’ll give them that the use of the word turnkey is definitely a flash to the past, I’m not so sure I agree with the key part of their…
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This is good to hear
Especially from the heart of what many see as the opposite of a manufacturing based economy (no, not the IFTF…Silicon valley): The book starts with one vast insight about the nature of technology. This is it: manufacturing isn’t boring. Figuring out how to produce thousands or millions of units of complicated, high-performance components requires as…
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My personal army
This in via Boing Boing today. An interesting application of build to order concepts. Imagine this taken one step further: users could upload body, clothing and weapon designs and Vicale could manufacture them. If a user thought they had done something really cool, they could open up a shop on Vicale and sell their action…