12:13 am - Giving Presentations
It should be a prerequisite for anyone whose job involves public speaking to be strapped to a chair and forced to watch at least fifteen straight hours of Steve Jobs keynotes.
Apart from coming out the other side saying "boom" all the time and mispronouncing "Jagwyre", the recipient of such training would hopefully understand the effectiveness of utter minimalism in designing a PowerPoint presentation.
( A long digression about giving presentations.... )
I didn't really mean for this to become such a detailed study of presentation techniques, but I guess I see so many of them that I'm quite sensitive to the issues. Now, if any of my colleagues read this, I had better make my next talk perfect!
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12:04 pm - iTunes Book Store
There are lots of great books out there, and I own a lot of great books, but I can't search paper and I want my library both at home and at work all the time. Think about iTunes - 2096 tracks, 11.1 days of music, all perfectly indexed, instantly findable and always with me as long as I have my iPod or my PowerBook.
About the best thing we have right now is O'Reilly Safari. Notice, however, that the leading internet book access site uses almost exactly the business model that the market has rejected for online music access - subscription. There is a version of Safari - Safari Max - that lets you download a certain number of chapters per month (10 chapters for $20 at the basic level) but, for the most part it's online-reading and subscription.
The Pragmatic Programmers have a nice procedure for doing personalised PDF downloads of their books. I've bought from them in the past and would do so again.
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