One of the very important things that happened just before the Christmas holiday break was that the Director of the Office of Management and Budget issued the Open Government Directive (OGD), which requires all heads […]
Unlike the Arctic where the recent trend in arctic sea ice extent is unmistakable, in the Antarctic the trend has not been clear. For example, there has been evidence of increased sea ice extent, less […]
I just came across an article that discusses how to publish interactive 3D models of machines and equipment to a variety of output devices such as Microsoft Word or the iPhone. The idea is that […]
According to InformationWeek, Forrester,in a report entitled US And Global IT Market Outlook: Q4 2009, is forecasting that global spending on IT hardware and software will grow 8.1% in 2010, after a decline of 8.9 […]
Jackie Ng pointed me to a fascinating session at Autodesk University in December and available online given by Clayton Hotson on the internals of MapGuide and how to visualize data from any FDO supported data […]
In response to the comment from David Jonglez, I did a little research on high speed trains. Here’s a cool video of a French TGV reaching 574.8 km/hr. I love the French engineer rolling up […]
It is reported that the new high speed train between Wuhan and Guangzhou on a dedicated 968-kilometer line has reached up to 394 kilometers per hour. The travel time from Wuhan to Guangzhou has been […]
Autodesk and the Green Building XML (gbXML) Advisory Board are presenting a free webcast titled “Using Green Building XML (gbXML) for Sustainable Building Design” on January 21, 2010 at 10:00 to 11:00 am PST. The […]