Every now and then I find out something about windows as a user that I did not know about such as the existence of the the command line defragger.
Well, everyone knows that the backspace key in IE is the same as pressing the "Back" button but my latest killer key combo discovery is ALT+Right arrow key which is the same as pressing the "Forward" button. When I found out about it a few weeks ago, I did not think I would ever use it but it turns out that I use it all the time, hence this blog entry :)
Sunday, November 20, 2005
What the bleep do we know!?
At the last minute, I booked myself a seat to see Fred Alan Wolf give a 3 hour talk at the University of Queensland here in Brisbane yesterday. He has a very charismatic, yoda-like appearance and has written a gammut of interesting books. He was also in the movie What the bleep do we know!?. That's quite a resume!
The title of the talk was "The Spiritual Universe - How Quantum Physics Proves the Existence of the Soul". He started out by spending about an hour asking a series of questions like "who am I?", "why am I here?", "what is the soul?" and "what happens after death?". He could easily have condensed this hour into a half hour and entered the nitty gritty of answering the questions much quicker and thus spend more time going into more detailed answers. His lecture style is okay and reminded me of some of my uni lecturers (naturally) but he does have an engaging style none the less. Making friends with the audience by spending time before he commenced e.g. shaking hands randomly with them was great to see.
What detracted from his presentation was the plethora of badly put together slides in his deck with animations and sound bites. His presentation relies on hundreds of slides which generally lack actual content. In fact, I found the content to be only interesting when he was not reading from the slides and actually addressing the audience with his real persona. The presentation is really a narrated slide deck....it is not a lecture as you might think!
The fact is, he is smart enough and engaging enough to not need any props whatsoever but he clearly hasn't realised this fact or been told. This fact was made really obvious at the end when we were given the chance of q+a and it was clear to see that he knows a thing or two about some of the most interesting and important subjects one could ever discuss. My advice to him would be to reduce the slide deck to what is actually needed and employ a media company to make the content look slick and professional.
The other thing is I wish Fred was a good friend of mine so we could hang out and chew the fat over quantum mechanics ;)
The title of the talk was "The Spiritual Universe - How Quantum Physics Proves the Existence of the Soul". He started out by spending about an hour asking a series of questions like "who am I?", "why am I here?", "what is the soul?" and "what happens after death?". He could easily have condensed this hour into a half hour and entered the nitty gritty of answering the questions much quicker and thus spend more time going into more detailed answers. His lecture style is okay and reminded me of some of my uni lecturers (naturally) but he does have an engaging style none the less. Making friends with the audience by spending time before he commenced e.g. shaking hands randomly with them was great to see.
What detracted from his presentation was the plethora of badly put together slides in his deck with animations and sound bites. His presentation relies on hundreds of slides which generally lack actual content. In fact, I found the content to be only interesting when he was not reading from the slides and actually addressing the audience with his real persona. The presentation is really a narrated slide deck....it is not a lecture as you might think!
The fact is, he is smart enough and engaging enough to not need any props whatsoever but he clearly hasn't realised this fact or been told. This fact was made really obvious at the end when we were given the chance of q+a and it was clear to see that he knows a thing or two about some of the most interesting and important subjects one could ever discuss. My advice to him would be to reduce the slide deck to what is actually needed and employ a media company to make the content look slick and professional.
The other thing is I wish Fred was a good friend of mine so we could hang out and chew the fat over quantum mechanics ;)
Thursday, November 10, 2005
Virtual property market booming
Once the machines rise and enslave most of us blue pill, non zion humans, we'll be right into this
Calculating Load
I was just reading Ian's latest blog entry on profiling and noticed that he recommended some whitepapers by Craig Andera ...the one on load balancing is very useful, kudos to Craig:"Calculating load"
Sunday, November 06, 2005
C# <==> VB.NET converter web tool
Reading Aaron Skonnard's blog connected me with this awesome C# <==> VB.NET converter web tool
Wednesday, November 02, 2005
Skinning XP
I was recently watching an ASP.NET 2.0 webcast by the awesome Fritz Onion when I noticed (or thought I noticed) that his desktop looked a little different. After digging round a bit I found I found a tool that allows you to change the look and feel of Windows XP quite radically and it's called Windows Blinds. I've currently got mine set to the longhorn slate (the dark grey). This particular skin is not in the default bits so it came from here. The tool is free to a certain extent by the way.
Tuesday, November 01, 2005
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