Fuddland
It’s the day of my talk. Eek. I hate doing this sort of thing. Still, it’ll all be over in about five hours, and at least I get a nice free lunch out of it. There’s actually two of us speaking today — I think I’m on second, which I prefer. I’m just slightly nervous because I know certain members of the audience are working on rival methods to solving the same sort of problems that my work concerns, and I’m not entirely convinced that theirs aren’t better. Not that I’d ever admit that publically. Except in a public weblog. Err.
I’m going to find a dark room to hide in.
Update: I uploaded my talk to the laptop I’ll be using to connect to the data projector, and found it only had PowerPoint 2000 — I’d written my talk using PowerPoint 2002. All the nice transitions I’d carefully chosen the wizard put in didn’t work, and my animations wouldn’t play. After cursing the University for being so cheap and not upgrading to the latest version of Office, I thought for a second, and was relieved to find Microsoft have made a free PowerPoint 2003 [and lower] viewer.
Before you think I’m praising Microsoft too much, I’d like to point out that PowerPoint 2002’s “Pack and Go” feature — which creates a standalone version of your presentation to play on any Windows PC — has not been updated to use the 2003 viewer; it still uses the older version, with a warning:
Some PowerPoint 2000 and 2002 features are not supported by the viewer.
Is it too much to ask it uses the latest PowerPoint viewer?
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Comments
Clair | 2004 / 02 / 19 – 12:50
Remind me what you are actually doing? Am feeling nosy.
And no, I’m not procratinating.
Clair | 2004 / 02 / 19 – 12:51
Or even procrastinating. One day I’ll learn to proof read BEFORE pressing the send button.
David | 2004 / 02 / 19 – 13:25
No need to feel nosy, it’s a matter of public record what I’m doing. :)
Re #2: I dunno, you provide a preview feature which performs rudimentary spellchecking… :P
Now get on with your essay!
Jann | 2004 / 02 / 19 – 13:39
Have you read Diamond Geezer’s little observation on Powerpoints?
Make sure you tell us how it all goes…
David | 2004 / 02 / 19 – 13:56
Re #4: Thanks for the link, that’s pretty funny. I admit I’ve fallen foul of the semi-swishy graphics trap, but that’s purely to make up for the lack of content.
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