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A happy belated Valentine’s Day to you.
Did you mess up? Got the flowers, but you forgot the Reeses – chocolate is required they say. The “chef” at the chain restaurant couldn’t actually deliver the gluten-free pasta your spouse needs?
We get to fail forward. Then again - the poem did rhyme.

“Pomegranates are red not purple
I’m hefty and sturdy like Yertle
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AutoCAD Civil 3D, as model-based software, continues to create new wrinkles that affect how we deal with old AutoCAD management stuff like Layers, Linetypes, Blocks and all the rest. If we try to ignore and treat these fundamental parts in the same old ways, we can make ourselves more work.

A Wrinkle in Time

Simply put – to create, edit, manage, and publish a model is not drawing…

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Twitter IPO was a success in late 2013. Social media, stock price, and market cap hype aside what else the company managed to accomplish in the few short years while getting there is most significant.

While People Were Watching

Twitter Bootstrap CSS became the predominate language of the Style for the web and elsewhere. How CSS does this technically is almost…

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I really enjoyed this YouTube video.

See New Things

Maybe it wouldn't be so funny except this EXACT scene actually happened to me many years ago.
My contracting company was the new "high tech" subcontractor on a job for an old school general.

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Is today is the day you decide enough is enough?

AutoCAD Civil 3D may be the best thing invented since sliced bread for civil engineers, surveyors, public works agencies, etc. However, the daily use of Civil 3D can drive you and your fellow users to distraction.

This Is Entertainment?

The software may cause you to “pull your hair out” or as the infamous Direct TV ads now…

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