25 April, 2008 (13:46) | Slide Design | By: Mike
I’ve recently finished reading Envisioning Information and it’s a book I highly recommend no matter how you’re presenting information. Now, as far as presentations are concerned, the most valuable chapter is that discussing color. There is a lot of the book that advocates creating easy to read, yet condense tables and other displays of information. [...]
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22 April, 2008 (21:27) | Grab Bag | By: Mike
I got this in my email today. It was funny enough that I had to share… For those of you who hunt deer, want to pet deer, or anything in between….this is too funny! Names have been removed to protect the stupid! This is an actual letter from someone who writes, and farms. I had [...]
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15 April, 2008 (20:20) | Thought Crimes | By: Mike
Well, this ought to give the Microsoft cultists seizures. According to Piper Jaffray’s chief Apple analyst, the Mac’s market share in the consumer space is now at 21% in the US and 10% world-wide. Almost every day, I’m surrounded by people who consider using any non-Microsoft product is heresy. Much to their chagrin, I was [...]
Tags: Apple, Computers, Microsoft, Windows
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9 April, 2008 (22:23) | Thought Crimes | By: Mike
Proving yet again that our senator, Jay Rockefeller has no shame, he told the Charleston Gazette, “McCain was a fighter pilot, who dropped laser-guided missiles from 35,000 feet. He was long gone when they hit. What happened when they [the missiles] get to the ground? He doesn’t know. You have to care about the lives [...]
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9 April, 2008 (21:37) | Thought Crimes | By: Mike
It’s been no secret that Obama is one of the most left-wing members of the Senate. However, just how far left wasn’t as clear before as it is now. In fact, he’s not that far removed from Robert Mugabe. Apparently, Obama framed his value system around those of his communist father’s. PrestoPundit dug into Obama’s [...]
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4 April, 2008 (16:32) | Grab Bag | By: Mike
With the Spitzer scandal, you’ve got to figure that something like this was going to crop up (click the image to see how much you’re worth): Powered By Best Vibrators (I originally found this at www.coalitionoftheswilling.net)
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4 April, 2008 (08:26) | Slide Design | By: Mike
One of my areas of personal improvement of late has been in the area of improving the way I give presentations. This was spurred on by being fed up with having to endure presentations such as the one below (go to the original at pcweenies.com). This happens all too often and [...]
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2 April, 2008 (00:57) | Thought Crimes | By: Mike
Now April Fools is behind us, let me just say I feel dirty after that “Switching” post.
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1 April, 2008 (02:50) | Thought Crimes | By: Mike
I’ve been doing a fair bit of thinking lately, and perhaps my previous post about Windows users was a bit hasty. You see, Windows does have 90% of the market. That must mean they’re doing something right. There’s no way they would have gotten that market share without being the best platform. Well, the [...]
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