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There’s a uniquely betrayed feeling you get when you lose work because your computer has crashed. I’m in the middle of developing a flash tutorial animation for my client(yes, I do do real work) to explain to their customers how the moderately complex security system protecting their data works. I was working on some tricky […]

2001 02 15 tom Comments (0)

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2001 02 15 tom Comments (0)

Some books I’ve finished recently: Shadow of the Hegemon, by Orson Scott Card. Newest book in the Bean series, a follow-on to Card’s earlier success Ender’s Game and its sequels. Good fun sci-fi, not too heavy. An entertaining way to waste some quality time. 3 out of 5. Thirtynothing, by Lisa Jewell. A fun, romantic […]

2001 02 15 tom Comments (0)

I think I may have a slightly addictive personality, which came out Monday night when I was working on a small presentation for Tuesday. The assignment was to create a 5-7 minute presentation. Now I *know* that some presentations can take 10 minutes to cover a single, high value Powerpoint page, but I still spent […]

2001 02 14 tom Comments (0)

Oh, Dad would like me to provide a link to his web site. I’ll probably build a links tab for this site, but for now, here’s Professor John Leslie. Oh, and in case you were wondering what the “link” links after every post were, they’re actually links to that post in the archive files. If […]

2001 02 12 tom Comments (0)

Monday morning, and I’m back in Toronto attending a class on how to make presentations. They’re videotaping us so we can see just how excruciating our personal mannerisms are. Whee… The course is being held in our office in the wilds of Etobicoke (that’s Ih-toe-bih-coh for out-of-towners) which is difficult to get to by public […]

2001 02 12 tom Comments (0)

The airport was open. Unfortunately, Colorado Springs’ airport was closed. An incredibly thick fog had moved in and when we got to Denver we found that all flights onward were cancelled. After about an hour of annoying delays, we set off in buses and eventually I got to bed at the resort here at 11:45 […]

2001 02 07 tom Comments (0)

I’m on my way off to Colorado in about an hour. There’s a blizzard outside, and I hope the airport is still open or it’s going to be a really long day. The decision point for the week is whether or not I should pursue a project that’s come up in the U.S. working with […]

2001 02 06 tom Comments (0)

Ok. Life got busy in a hurry last week and over the weekend. The course ended up very well. Thursday night we went for dinner at 302 West in Geneva, IL, which was excellent although quite expensive: US $65 per person. Friday the course teams presented their final results to the “steering committee” (their peers) […]

2001 02 05 tom Comments (0)

The class is going really well. They’ve formed into teams who are working well together, and we’re interspersing the heads-down goal-based scenario work with some puzzles and inter-team challenges. Competitive problem-solving really appeals to Technology managers. Today’s going a bit slowly for me, as my responsibilities are mainly just keeping the one team I’m coaching […]

2001 01 30 tom Comments (0)