Archive for the 'Lectures' Category



What’s Taking so Long?

03Sep07

I learned the rather incon­ve­nient truth about export­ing slides for the web, includ­ing the most typ­i­cal for­mats (export to one big Quick­Time movie, export to PDF, export to Flash, export to a series of linked images): None of these han­dle pre­sen­ta­tions with embed­ded movies (they typ­i­cally show up as still images, if any­thing at all), […]

Preparations for a Talk Next Week

12Aug07

As I wrote in my per­sonal blog Loud Mur­murs, I’ve been really busy lately. This is because I’ve recently started work­ing full-time on a con­tract at IBM’s Pacific Devel­op­ment Cen­tre in Burn­aby, BC on a project that I’m unfor­tu­nately not able to blog about (but it’s really inter­est­ing; take my word for it). Nev­er­the­less, next weekend, […]