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The cadpilot.com site is back up.

Why the Cadpilot site went down in the first place is a technological mystery lost in the Shards of the Cloud.
Why it remained down for exactly 21 days almost to the exact minute is as lost as King Solomon’s Mines or Malaysian Airlines flight 350. Many great minds on multiple continents beat their heads on their keyboards trying to fix it.…

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Folks, when I say “skybox” I’m not talking about the deluxe stadium seating reserved for the corporate classes here. Or am I?

Here Civil 3D land we talk about smaller, faster, and more capable survey data gathering using Autodesk Recap 360, MAV (micro air vehicle) or UAS (unmanned aerial systems) technology et al, in the larger Internet of Things you simply can’t ignore…

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A lunar eclipse and the requisite Red Moon happen in Passover and Easter week this year. Lord knows, it’s a repeatable event.

We’ll have Red Moons four times in the next two years. Each lunar eclipse happens in conjunction with either Passover or the Feast of Tabernacles.

In the GB (green blue) filtered State of California the signs…

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Recently, Shaan Hurley of Autodesk, posted a tweet to a real cool Autodesk YouTube marketing video on Autodesk Recap 360, GoPro camera, and Autodesk Revit. The recording demonstrated the use digital GoPro camera pics shot from a DJI Phantom quadcopter UAS to rapidly…

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“A Company hires people to do things.
A Company hires people to manage things.
Smart People pay people who manage to do the important well.”

This Twitter tweet-sized tidbit from the Human Gravity on the substance of work is worthy of a short post of its own.

It has a ring to it.

As the author I allow you the right to replace “Company” with anything from this…

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