Today's brush with technology came from a completely unexpected source. My wife and I are having an addition put on the house. A friend of mine is helping us build it and instead of hiring an architect - he paid $50.00 for Super Home Suite, a simple but functional drafting program. We just spent four hours (in which I was supposed to be getting my assignment for Project Management in gear) puttering around designing our extension. It has a 3-D rotating view mode with a helicopter cursor that we played with like kids in an arcade. I was particularly impressed that you could look in a window from outside and see what had been designed in the room. For example, you can look right into the downstairs tub from the upstairs guestroom. Looks like we'll need those curtains after all.

Oh and it also makes blueprints. Whatever.