Archive for April, 2009

Minor Presentation Annoyances

I spend a lot of time not just giving presentations, but listening to them.  There are a lot of presenters who are better at it than I am, and certainly I’ve been guilty of a presentation gaffe or two.  (Or five, or thirty-six.)  I’m starting to encounter a lot of the same presentation annoyances lately, [...]

Who wants to tell her she’s holding the Blackberry upside down?

So on Friday I received an email from Ultimate Ears telling me my cable shipped.  And sure enough, it was in the mail today.  I’m really glad this came, because now I have my wonderful-sounding headphones back. I’m still a bit frustrated that it took so long for a warranty repair, though.  And I’m also [...]

Ad Size FAIL

300 X 250, I said, dammit!  (Click to enlarge)

I’m Back In Google!

Hurray!  My suspension is over.  Hopefully, I’ll manage to keep ahead of the comment spam.

Flagrant Link Baiting

Okay, so every month or so I do this thing at the office that we call “Fun:Tech.”  (Yes, I know it is a stupid name.  I told the staff we’d change it once someone came up with something better.  No one has.)  At Fun:Tech, someone (usually me) does a quick presentation on some aspect of [...]

Some More Kate Photos

By popular demand…

Do No Evil, My Ass

On March 11, I was informed by Google that this site had been removed from its index.  Here’s the text of what I received: From: Google Subject: Removal from Google’s Index Date: March 11, 2009 To: ‹ Previous | 2 of 2 | Next › Recipient Dear site owner or webmaster of hespos.com, While we [...]