MadTV — Drunk Powerpoint Presentation (Somewhat NSFW)
Wired Presentations — Sometimes a Mistake Pays Off
All is well until a guy in the first row said, “my notes didn’t match what you were discussing.†Someone from the back chimed it, “Mine don’t match either.†Yep, Jeff had been bitten by Murphy’s Law.
It seems that I pulled a chapter from the course management system while the other developer had been working on a different chapter in our common work area
Pivotal Public Speaking — Funny Presentation Training – how many errors can you find?
This is a video produced by a presentation training company as an example of how NOT to make a PowerPoint presentation.
PPTools — Keep the session alive (prevent screensaver, logout problems, mouse jiggler)
Occasionally we get questions about how to keep the screensaver from kicking in, usually from people whose corporate IT people have locked down the computer to the point where they can’t change the screen saver settings themselves. In other cases, the computer may log them out after a period of inactivity.
Blue Room technical forum — Fire alarms vs. haze…
Hit a minor issue at the place I’m currently working at today, as I managed to evacuate the entire school when demonstrating the haze machine… I’m fully aware of the cap over the sensor or isolating the particular part of the building that the haze machine is being used in to solve this problem, but the school (despite a huge amount of persuasion from me) don’t want to do either of those, as they are concerned for the risk implications.
Nothing To Do With Arbroath —Missing cat appears on BBC1’s Question Time
A cat owner only realised her ginger Tom was missing when a friend rang to say she had just seen him – live on television. Tango appeared on screen on BBC1’s Question Time as David Dimbleby, politicians and pundits discussed topics as diverse as the wearing of burkhas, the situation in Iran and MP’s expenses.
