I have been privileged to make the acquaintance of Breda McCague. A close friend and colleague suggested I get in touch with her, and being the force of nature she is, she advised me to seek new experiences and new connections. So, I did exactly that. Thanks, Breda! Having known Thom Tremblay for many years, […]
To all of you, I do hope Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year were good for you. I am writing this post in Adelaide, South Australia. We have just spent our first Christmas with our grandkids, and our Aussie side of our family. We decided to take a month out and try to relax a bit, […]
In this blog post, I want to get across some thoughts and opinions on how wisdom and experience really do count for something, and how valuable those qualities are in a world becoming obsessed with AI. We ALL have value. I have been teaching AutoCAD since the year 2000. Twenty -five years (yep, 25) teaching […]
I always write a post to follow up on my attendance at Autodesk University (AU). This post is a bit different. It includes AU2025, but also some other stuff too. I hope you don’t mind and enjoy the diverse content! I took a week off after AU. This was my first ‘official’ week off after […]
My Star Wars Lego Dark Falcon (a derivative of the Millenium Falcon) has pride of place in The Workshop (my office) on its Wicked Bricks display stand. As those of you know me well, I love my Lego, and I am a big Star Wars fan. Well, as of now, I am a big HP […]
Not Just CAD I did start this as a LinkedIn post, but then realised that it needed to be more than that, so here goes…. Not Just CAD (affectionately known as NJC) is building slowly in the background. Its origins were formed way back in the Blogger.com days, when I started a very simple blog […]
Some might say that being a member of the Autodesk Expert Elite (EE) program involves answering and solving user questions in the Autodesk forums and wearing an EE-branded jacket at conferences such as Autodesk University (AU). Nope. It is WAY more than that. As an EE, you are an ambassador for Autodesk. You are an […]
After 37 years of using AutoCAD (yes, I’m showing my age, LOL), I still get that childlike excitement when a new AutoCAD release comes out. Even when I had to do network deployments of 25 workstations or more, finding out what was new and how it could improve AutoCAD workflows was always fun. As I […]
2024 was not a good year for me. For those of you who don’t know, my father was involved in a severe car crash in November 2023 while I was at AU2023 in Las Vegas, just before I taught an AutoCAD class that was inspired by his ‘shipshape’ philosophy towards everything in life. In my […]
A good friend, colleague, and mentor of mine recently commented in an email thread that with all the focus on technology, many fail to realise that it is the people who are our most important asset. I could not agree more. With all the AI, machine learning, and automation out there, we still need real […]