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Uggh.. PowerPoint.

An entertaining PowerPoint slide set that helps prove that PowerPoint sucks:
http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/sld001.htm

The article from the author who works for Google, that explains how his Gettysburg Address PowerPoint parody came to be:
http://norvig.com/lancet.html

How PowerPoint can lead to deadly situations:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/29/AR2005082901444.html

And this one…
http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2005/06/kill_your_prese.html

And a whole book on the topic…
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0961392150/ericsbooks04ref=nosim

These are some links to some D-Star reference material I used to present a short presentation to the Denver Radio Club’s “Learner’s Net” on 2/6/2008 that folks may find interesting or useful.

Here you go folks!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-STAR – D-Star Information at Wikipedia

http://www.hamradio-dv.org/ – Recordings of various digital radio formats versus analog

http://n6six-hamshack.50megs.com/custom_1.html  — N6SIX D-Star description for a local ham club and other info

http://n6six.podbean.com/ – Recordings of a San Diego D-Star Net from N6SIX

http://www.arrl-al.org/D-STAR%20map_5_07.jpg  — D-Star repeater map

http://www.aorusa.com/ard9800.html – AOR HF Modem for Digital SSB

http://www.icomamerica.com/en/support/forums/tt.asp?forumid=2 – Icom America online D-Star Forums

Well, the box showed up this morning and I installed Leopard on the MacBook. Got done about an hour ago, and have been playing.

Only “bad” thing was I need a funky 802.1x setup for wireless, and even though it was working in 10.4, the upgrade got done and it didn’t quite work right after 10.5 came up. But… a few clicks in the Networking setup, and it was happy again. 802.1x auth always seemed like an “add on” in 10.4, but it looks much better integrated in 10.5, including an “802.1x WEP” setting in the wireless security drop-down.

So far, everything seems to work, the machine’s similarly fast as before, and I’m happy. There were some updates to download to Remote Desktop Client, Garageband, and something else… nothing huge yet.

Haven’t tried Time Machine (external disk is at home and I’m not there right now). Haven’t tried Parallels to see if it barfs. Got some more playing to do, but have tried iPhoto (slightly nicer, nothing earth-shattering) and played in all the system settings… some incremental neat changes in some things in there… and iChat.

Generally “if you don’t hear from me” it all went great. Will post any really nifty or other good/bad news as I run across things.

Has to be posted, for posterity if nothing else…

ROCKIES WIN THE PENNANT!  ROCKIES WIN THE PENNANT!

WHOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Every time you get on the air, you need to decide what’s most important to you …the best interests of Amateur radio as a whole, or your own pride or ego or “rights”.

– Riley Hollingsworth

Nicely said, Mr. Hollingsworth!