by ezs | Jan 6, 2006 | Books, evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
I rejoined Audible a few months ago.
I first tried it out about three years ago when I got my first iPod (wow! three years!) and found it – somewhat clunky. Audible support was patchy on my old iPod, the software didn’t work too well – and the content was somewhat sparse.
Things have changed dramatically in the last couple of years. I am now listening to several books a month; mainly on plane journeys, also on my commute into the office.
I am currently listening to Michael Palins “Around the World in Eighty Days” – I first read this at University many years ago (1992!). Turns out the whole book is now available online.
by ezs | Jan 5, 2006 | evilzenscientist, fun stuff, Uncategorized
We’re down to less than two days worth of coffee beans!
We buy coffee in bulk from a friend.
Not like this:
but in cases of two 7kg drums. Like the ones your favourite espresso store has.
I’ll take a picture when we get a delivery. Hopefully tomorrow.
by ezs | Jan 3, 2006 | Evangelism, evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
Following on from my earlier post on presentations – here’s a great site that I culled from Guy Kawasakis blog – presentationzen.com.
There are so many good tips in there – it’s a pleasure to just dive in and look at some of the ideas.
I don’t want to “name and shame” people who give death by PowerPoint – but I will try and adopt some of these ideas in my own work.
by ezs | Jan 2, 2006 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
I finally threw away hardware that was part of my old test lab – I’ve not had use for this for a long time:
WAN and network emulation:
2x Cisco Catalyst 4500
Fitted with ISDN, FDDI, Ethernet and Serial (X25)
Cross platform testing:
Sun Sparc Enterprise 2
Dual Sparc, 512MB RAM, mirrored 4GB SCSI!
Wow – that was old and crufty.
I also threw out and shredded a lot of old documentation and notes from the late 90s and early 00s.
by ezs | Jan 1, 2006 | blogging, Evangelism, evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
Guy Kawasaki (author of such titles as “Selling the Dream” – another must read book) has a new blog.
One of his first posts really rings true – about the use (and abuse) of PowerPoint.
I am trying to evangelize the 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint. It’s quite simple: a PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points.
Nice. I hope I try to keep to this rule during 2006. I’ve certainly been trimming my slideware dramatically in the last year; talk and interaction (traditional “conversations”) are much more effective than the Dilbert-esque death by PowerPoint.
Guy is a renowned technology evangelist – I’ll be following his blog with interest.
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