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Month: November 2006

Giving a Presentation? Lose the Laser Pointer

Posted on November 29, 2006 by bkjones

You heard me. Put down the laser pointer and slowly step away. There are two things that a lot of presenters do that just drive me nuts: Reading the slides to me. I can read. I don’t need you to do it for me. And, if every single word you want to say fits on…

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Yet another LinuxLaboratory overhaul in the works.

Posted on November 17, 2006 by bkjones

Well, it’s that time again. Time to suck it up and come to terms with yet another “conent management solution” that doesn’t fit the bill as far as Linuxlaboratory.org is concerned. The latest system is MediaWiki, and it’s not working out. There’s about a million things built into MediaWiki that I don’t use, and then…

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Cory Doctorow’s toorcon speech

Posted on November 14, 2006 by bkjones

I just wanted to point out this Cory Doctorow blog entry which points to his speech at toorcon. This isn’t brand new (post is from Oct 6, 2006), but I only just found it, and figured others may not have seen it yet. Link directly to the video here. The short story is that it…

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When Geek Conversations Go Bad

Posted on November 9, 2006 by bkjones

There’s this annoying trend in the geek culture that I can’t help but comment on, if for no other reason than to let people know about geek culture here in the early 21st century. The trend is this: At any given point in time, a group of geeks can be talking about just about anything…

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My LUG/IP Presentation: The Road to Geek Authorship

Posted on November 9, 2006 by bkjones

A few months ago, Tom Limoncelli (noted author and, now, a member of the Google team) spoke at our LUG about topics from his newest book, “Time Management for System Administrators”. It was a great talk, and it’s a pretty darn good book as well.  Anyway, the point here is that, after the talk, there…

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