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.
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.
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.
Time to test and upgrade all the blogs methinks.
Looks like a lot of new features – for me (the admin) and for everyone who posts. Nice work chaps.
I’m working on switching my WordPress installation to version 2.0 and updating my theme to something fresh for the New Year.
I’ve found a cool resource for some nice looking themes – wpthemes.info.
Sigh – I’ve been looking for ski boots again – and nothing fits.
I’ve tried rentals before – and I’ve always had a really painful few hours with cold, cramped, uncomfortable toes. I’ve tried buying – and nothing seems to work for me.
If anyone knows of any good Utah based ski boot shops that will fit to strange, large feet and calves – let me know!
WordPress 2.0 is close. Release Candidate 3 is now available.
I’ve installed on a non-live server – and things work ok right now. Some testing needed on the plugins – but fingers crossed.
Looking at the Google Zeitgeist for 2005 and there is one really interesting piece:
Whose News
When news is reported instantaneously, and more people than ever expect to get their news online, which sources do people consult – and for which stories? We took a look at three major news organizations which have come to new prominence for a global Internet audience.
This shows that BBC is outpacing CNN for online news.
As I was in central London I made a special visit to The Stationery Office Bookshop near Holborn.
TSO is a strange beast; formerly HMSO (Her Majestys Stationery Office), now the Office of Public Sector Information – it is the official publishing arm for the UK Government. Everything from Government papers, reports of debates in Parliament to ITIL, Prince and other documents are published.
The TSO bookshop is a veritable hideout of really specialist, non-overlapping information.
I was buying books on ITIL – the IT Infrastructure Library – for my team. Useful and required reading in todays IT world.
Today is Friday. I am back in the UK -and on the train again. This time heading north from London to Leeds on GNER.
On the positive side – it’s a nice fast journey up to Leeds – no hassle of flights, getting to and from the airport and all of the checkin hassle. It’s also a lot lot faster than driving (probably four hours each way – which would hurt). There is also free Wifi on the train (woo!) – which is actually useful (sync of mail and get some research complete).
On the negative side – the value is questionable. While less than flying – it still hurts to pay so much for a flexible ticket.
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