Another long weekend is upon us. Time to celebrate…
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Monthly Archive for August, 2007
Ashley finally got Internet access in the Dominican Republic! There are updates on her blog.
Update: She sent pictures, too!
I used to publish links on blogan.net to posts I found particular interesting or useful. Here’s an example.
I quit posting them here because it takes too much time. Instead, I aggregate the few posts I like each day on my linkblog at blogan.tumblr.com.
Go take a look. You can use the RSS link to read my linkblog with your feed reader.
I’m giving a presentation in a couple of days. As typical, I’m using PowerPoint. (Can you give a presentation without using PowerPoint?)
I have a lot of experience with PowerPoint, from both sides of the projector. Some foils are interesting; others are eye charts.
Guy Kawasaki has a 10/20/30 rule of PowerPoint:
- No more than 10 slides
- No more than 20 minutes
- No font smaller than 30 points
I like it! I even created my slides using these rules. Unfortunately, the person managing the presentation didn’t see the wisdom of nine slides having only a word or two each. I guess it makes sense; I think the slides will be given as handouts afterwards.
Which makes me ask: why not use different slides for the presentation and handouts?
For an example of using more than ten slides, watch Dick “master of the clicker” Hardt at OSCON 2005.
Oregon has a clear sky this morning to observe the lunar eclipse. My little Orion StarBlast comes in useful, once again. Unfortunately, I don’t really have anything to record this with. My digital camera’s having problems taking pictures of dark objects in the night sky. 
It’s not even 3:30 am. I don’t think I’m going to stay up another hour to send the end of totality.
Good night, all!
We took a short break from our travels in the middle of my sabbatical. During that time, Ashley dug up the garden and planted flower seeds.
Now that Ashley’s gone on her mission trip, we have something beautiful to remind us of her.
Thanks, Ashley! Every time I see your garden, I think of you!
For eight straight weeks, my inbox was empty. At least, it might as well have been; I wasn’t checking it. I was on sabbatical.
Having been back from sabbatical a few weeks, I’m watching my inbox get clogged with those difficult to answer e-mails, those large tasks, and just some plain junk.
Inbox Zero is a method of handling an inbox so that it never gets very full, in fact, it can be empty.
43 Folders has a series of posts on the concept.
five.sentenc.es advocates limiting e-mails to 5 sentences or less to prevent e-mail overload. Can you do it?
The Logan bed and breakfast now has high-speed Internet with wireless. Life is good!
Lorelle maintains links to cheat sheets on HTML/XHTML, CSS, PHP, SQL, ASCII, and other acronymed topics. Incredibly useful!
HT: WP Bits.
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