I’ve become a PowerPoint fan for a couple of reasons. First, I’ve gotten fairly proficient with PowerPoint, so I can put together presentations quickly and my slides carry greater impact. Also, the PowerPoint team has added features that I believe help me deliver presentations more effectively.
This describes one of those features: the new ‘Zoom’ functionality.
I’ve known for a long time now that teaching makes me a better database administrator and performance tuner. But I’ve had a hard time figuring out why.
I love writing presentations. I like outlining them, I like writing the demos, putting the slides together. I even like reconsidering everything, backing up, scrapping it, and starting from a new approach!
But I hate writing abstracts. It’s just tough to capture your vision in the format a conference organizer wants. And often, if I’m writing the abstract before the presentation is done, I’m wary about possibly describing something that I’ll want to change later.
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