I started a tradition last year of assessing the amount of email traffic I had read and created at work over the past year. I’ve always rotated my email at the end of the year to archive the previous year’s significant and insignificant messages… but last year was the first time I’d really taken stock […]
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Just stumbled on a great site for improving the professionalism of your presentations: Presentation Zen
I’m still reading through it, but it has some great examples of both good and bad presentations and slide design. I’m always looking for ways to improve in this area, so I’m certain to return to Presentation Zen often.
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I’ve been working an alternative work schedule the past few months: Tuesday - Saturday. Working Saturday allows me to catch up on all the important things that aren’t really urgent during the week.
Occasionally, I also work on urgent things that have spilled over from the previous week if the workload becomes too daunting. However, […]
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As a software developer, I’ve always been drawn to self-contained programs. Self contained programs can run without needing to be “installed.” I realize there are times when this approach is not feasible, but it seems much more elegant when a program can be truly self-contained.
I’ve started to see several programs call themselves “Portable” lately. Generally, […]
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I’m picking up blogging again. We’ll have to see how it goes!
In order to really test out the layout and themes I’ve downloaded, I need a longer post. This post is really not talking about anything at all… just filling up space. That said, I think it is a very interesting post […]
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Every once in a while I get the urge to do some programming. These days my programming seems to be limited to PHP/MySQL web pages, but once in a while I like to write a quick windows utility to keep my skills up.
I’m thinking of writing an XMLRPC Blog client that takes advantage of […]
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