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Friday, March 23, 2007
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Eternity
Eternity is a very long time, especially towards the end.
- Stephen Hawking
Sunday, March 11, 2007
In defense of PowerPoint
We have had poor talks long before PowerPoint.
"Listeners cannot absorb too much information at once. Talks should be limited to getting across just a few critical points. The goal is to get the listener interested enough to explore the subject in more depth on their own, perhaps by reading, perhaps by conversation. If too much is packed into a talk, the listener becomes overloaded and is apt to remember less than if the talk were better paced with less information. Worse, the listener may simply give up and cease following. Perhaps even worse is that listeners might get interested and pause to pursue some implications mentally, only later to discover that they thereby missed other material."
"Listeners cannot absorb too much information at once. Talks should be limited to getting across just a few critical points. The goal is to get the listener interested enough to explore the subject in more depth on their own, perhaps by reading, perhaps by conversation. If too much is packed into a talk, the listener becomes overloaded and is apt to remember less than if the talk were better paced with less information. Worse, the listener may simply give up and cease following. Perhaps even worse is that listeners might get interested and pause to pursue some implications mentally, only later to discover that they thereby missed other material."
Friday, March 09, 2007
How I blog
In that I've just had a blitz on posting, I should probably explain how I tend to do it.
Mostly, I blog once a week, normally on a Thursday or Friday evening. It seems that's the only time I have to get to play (as my wife likes to refer to it) with my computer.
It isn't that this is the only time that I think about posting though. Whenever I get an idea or see something worth commenting on, I'll make a note of it in a text file I keep on my desktop.
Once a week I'll email all those ideas to my home address so that when I get the chance I'll write them up. And if I don't write them up straight away, I'll start a draft and finish them another time.
Why do I blog? That's currently a draft that I'll finish another time.
Mostly, I blog once a week, normally on a Thursday or Friday evening. It seems that's the only time I have to get to play (as my wife likes to refer to it) with my computer.
It isn't that this is the only time that I think about posting though. Whenever I get an idea or see something worth commenting on, I'll make a note of it in a text file I keep on my desktop.
Once a week I'll email all those ideas to my home address so that when I get the chance I'll write them up. And if I don't write them up straight away, I'll start a draft and finish them another time.
Why do I blog? That's currently a draft that I'll finish another time.
