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Since Windows ran into such major security problems because of the internet, I was thinking which is the best solution to stay safe. For me personally, as I arrived to figure that millions of other people earn a living out of Windows — making the patch, anti-virus, ad-ware, patch again brouhaha an important social and economical infrastructure. Imagine what if hoi polloi would run all OS X Macs, no more virii, no more exploits (the brutal mass spreading kind of). This perspective would be sinister for the millions of clerks busy with combating the digital pests. Sort of bifidus probiotic beneficial bacteria for the health of our society’s (abstract) colon, etc.

But the point is not about why I switched all my work to Linux. It’s how I’m returning to Windows… No, I’ll never dare connect my Windows box to the net, no way.

It happened early this weekend when i stumbled into a new Google release, dunno if it’s a Beta or not, and honestly, don’t care about these ‘beta’ tags anyway — so far as above the tag it reads Google.

This time Google acquired a 3D graphics company named SketchUp. And Saturday I was downloading the FREE version of Google SketchUp 3D CAD for the masses.

Have been working with quite a bunch of graphical tools, 2D and 3D alike, and I can tell that something so simple to use and yet so powerful I never encountered, over some 15+ years of graphical design. It’s amazing what Google can do to serotonin levels. The grief — as somehow expected — is that there’s no Google SketchUp release for Linux, yet.

So I gave it a try on the Windows box sitting there in a corner, somehow idle for years. And wow, I called my daughter, kid #1, she played and played, then my other daughter, kid #2, grew curious about this new app. Well, all through the weekend (and May Day, the old pagan celeb) kids were building houses and farms and you name it. Chris (kid #1) even burnt the SketchUp on a CD to share with her colleagues at school. She was talking with them and they asked for a copy.

Thanks Heavens it’s free software! You can download Google SketchUp from here or purchase the on-steroids version Pro5 from here. BTW, you may also populate Google Earth with your SketchUp constructions — or just share or store 3D models, have a look here on how to do that: Google 3D Warehouse, Search, share and store 3D models.
What else can I say? Oh yeah: when can I have the Linux version??!!

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