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The latest version of google SketchUp has been released, and is super awesome.
For those of you that don’t know what SketchUp is this is the marketing blurb from the website

“Google SketchUp 6 is a free, easy-to-learn 3D modeling tool that enables you to explore the world in 3D. With just a few simple tools, you can create 3D models of houses, sheds, decks, home additions, woodworking projects – even space ships. And once you’ve built your models, you can place them in Google Earth, post them to the 3D Warehouse. “

In a nutshell it allows any average joe to become a super 3D designer easily. One of the new features of the latest version is that it has 3D text built in, which allows you create your own 3D words.

My attempt at the blogname above :)

via [Ogle Earth]

Came across this story on National Geographic where a Python ate a pregnant sheep.

Check the story out here

Gotta be hungry for that…eeeew (pun intended)

Well last year I officially sucked at blogging. Perhaps the year got a bit away with me. So this year, I really am going to make a concerted effort at blogging more.

as you can see there is a newish look today, and while I play a bit more with the new Blogger (out of Beta), I’m going to try and make it look all pretty.

A new addition on the right is MyBlogLog, which is really a big networking site connecting bloggers around the world.
You can check my profile out at http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/marcforrest/

Also have added my picasa album link on the right for some pictures from the silly season.

More to come soon !!!

This past weekend there was very good article in the Sunday Times, taking a look inside how Cash Heists in South Africa take place.

Check the article out here

Exactly 295 days after my mom passed away last year in November, we said goodbye to my Dad on the 12th of September. He had been in hospital for a month, and had been diagnosed with cancer. They removed a growth from his colon, but it had had spread to his lungs & liver. He came out of hospital to my house on the Monday, and passed away peacefully on the Tuesday.

We had become quite close in the last couple of months, and it hurts to know that I don’t have either of my parents left, but I am greatful they are together now, wherever they may be.

Goodbye dad, thanks for all you did for us, we gonna miss you ;(