PowerPoint: less is more

I had a Very Important Presentation that went off well today. I spoke for 5 minutes and used 7 PowerPoint slides. I hate PowerPoint mainly because it is so often abused by those who think that a presentation is PowerPoint. And so here's a vid for those of you who lay on the PowerPoint a little thickly.



and for the laughs

Stupid Nokia

I'm trying to buy a 3G phone. I generally like Nokias. However Nokia's website is so very very irritating. Why the stupid flash menus and animations. Just design an easy navigable website. I ended up having to go to CNET to get any decipherable info.

So with regard to 3G, which is best?

• 6680
• N95
• E61
• 6233

Anyone got a notion?

Take back the blog

I'm a little late to the party but I'm here at last. Take back the blog is about supporting the rights of women to blog without fear of harassment, intimidation, stalking and violence. Online harassment of women has happened time and time and time again. Check this out for additional posts and stories.

Chris Clarke has a great post about online behaviour at Pandagon. He's been experimenting with female handles as research for his article. Definitely recommended reading

Within five minutes of logging on I had sexually abusive IMs popping up from men I didn’t know. Didn’t matter which room I was in: general chat, politics, classical music. I kept up the experiment for I think four days, a couple hours a day, sometimes chatting with people about non-sexual topics, sometimes just lurking.

Online stalking happens. It's not a myth. Wrap it up now people.

EDIT: Check out the front page of the Washington Post. Thanks to Jinja for the heads up.

Filing

Why is it impossible for a geek to invent a logical content management system? All the tech I've seen is for internet publishing. There has to be something better than

Folder -> subfolder 1a -> subfolder 2 -> subfolder 3 -> ad nauseum

I like the open source content management systems that are out there but I need tweaks. Maybe there's a whole corner of the net dealing with all the sort of programme I'm after but I ain't seen it.

When will there be the equivalent of Del.icio.us for file organisation? Sometimes I wonder why people buy software when the best stuff is open source. Unfortunately open source follows the most coveted stuff.

I just want a logical filing system.

Archiving and record keeping

The Director of the Documentation Centre of Cambodia (DC-Cam) has written this interesting article on the necessity of archiving and safe guarding historical records.

DC-Cam mostly gathers information about the Khmer Rouge, genocide, survivors and works with the Khmer Rouge Tribunal.

They also welcome volunteers!

HELP - computer literate people out there

My IT guy just quit on me and left an unfinished website written in Macromedia and and CSS which may be the same thing for all I know.

Does anybody want to help me out by taking on unpaid work and finish the site? It's almost complete according to what he said. The job is relatively urgent and so if you don't have time - please don't offer!

Thanks! I'm on skype if you have questions