Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave
10/20/30 Rule of Powerpoint
Guy Kawasaki writes about his 10/20/30 Rule of Powerpoint: It’s quite simple: a PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points.
Consolations
Just finished The Consolations of Philosophy, and while it took me a while to read a 250-odd page paperback, it was enjoyable stuff throughout. De Botton picks 6 philosophers and 6 predicaments, one for each philosopher to console us. It’s…
WordPress 2.0 Announcement
The WordPress blog has finally announced the release of version 2.0, or ‘Duke’. The post presents a nice list of new features for users: Completely Redesigned Backend — The first thing you’ll notice when you login to your blog is…
The Consolations of Philosophy
Am currently three-quarters of the way through Alain de Botton’s The Consolations of Philosophy. It’s good stuff so far. It dicusses a particular aspect of six philosophers’ work: Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. Having looked up a couple…
Ben in Sand
Written by the man himself!
Librivox, Performancing problem
Librivox is an interesting project, a kind of audio Gutenberg, running on a mixture of WordPress and phpBB. Volunteers collaborate on recording mp3s of classic, out-of-copyright texts. As with all these things, the quality must be variable, but it is…
WordPress 2.0 Upgrade
very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency [x] Well, I have upgraded to WordPress 2.0 and it was as seamless as always, no problems whatsoever. Will now get in touch with Rick and Chilli about getting theirs sorted…
Businessman wins e-mail spam case
Interesting story from the BBC: Businessman wins e-mail spam caseA businessman has won what is believed to be the first victory of its kind by claiming damages from a company which sent him e-mail spam. Nigel Roberts, who lives in…
Links 27/12/05
Office Weblog: Meme of the day: Outlook 12 and RSS OH MY GOD…! – Trent End Talk on Boxing Day’s game: Forest 4 Donny 0! Festivus has been mentioned to me a few times over the last few days… Terminated…