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Snow Leopard has just been delivered by TNT Air Express... work will have to wait a bit longer today... :)

Ah well, my Endovenous Laser Ablation surgery was postponed today so I'll just have to wait a tad longer to have my blood boiled from the inside of my leg surface vein...

Yes I know Mac have an inbuilt screen capture utility but I have really missed SnagIt since going to a Mac based system but good news it at hand... happy days are here again :) Snagit for Mac is Coming!

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Well the wait is almost over with only a few days until Snow Leopard starts to ship on August 28, 2009.

Autodesk University 2009 is opened for registration... If you haven't registered yet you'd best hurry up and do so as the good classes and host hotel accommodation is on a first-come first-served basis. This years' Autodesk University is on December 1-3 2009 at the Mandalay Bay Hotel, Las Vegas. See you there @ AU2009 :)

Somewhat old news now but new to me... I stumbled on this whilst searching the Autodesk site... A utodesk announced in late July that AutoCAD, Revit platform products, Inventor and 3ds Max will now be supported on Windows XP & Vista running under Bootcamp on Apple Macs. This is great news, especially for customers including myself who have been running this environment for some time without official support (one proviso is English Language products only). You can view the applicable products at the link above :)

Wow, its been 3 months to the day since lobbing in hospital with severe cellulitus and subsequent finding out about my diabetes and high blood pressure. At the beginning of this year I was approx 150 kgs (330 pounds) give or take a few kilos... never really knew for sure... I decided then it was time to shed some weight. Landing in hospital in May, I was down to 137.5 kg (300 pounds) but unfortunately I had a raging infection in my leg, blood sugar levels exceeding 15 mmol/l (270 mg/dl) and a blood pressure of 198/116. A few days later after a fasting blood test, blood sugars were taken as 10.6 mmol/l (approx 190 mg/dl) and BP had dropped to about 160/110. Now 3 months later, I'm weighing at 121.6kg (268 pounds) with still a ways to go... ideally around 90kg (198 pounds) will probably look the best even though that is still considered overweight for my height/age.. so we'll just have to wait n' see. My average daily blood glucose reading is about 6-ish (approx 100)...