In here I'll try to keep a little log of stupid stuff - all done by me of course (I can be good at that!) - expect much more!

March 25, 06:
Dept. of minor gaffes (hey who am I to define anything:)
From Gapingvoid linking to a post at Forthcoming:

>>(you'll never hear me say pre this or that, and no alpha, no beta)

From the website:

March 22, 06:
Fixing up a "pre-release" for a few system...

Nice :)
Posted by Nick Davis at March 25, 2006 05:37 PM

March 8, 06:
A friend in the US had set me up with some big brass at a huge US east coast insurance company - giving me chance to do a demo over the web.

Meeting was at 5 PM my time and my friend had promised to make contact 45 minutes prior for last minutes preparation. He plinged me five minutes prior to meet. Then he tells me that I was to set up meeting using WebEx... which was kind of a surprise as he had told me two weeks prior that the other party was to run that part (thank you ichat logging :).
Guess how that meeting went... not so good I'm afraid. (I'm no WbEx friend, hooray for VNC I say, but big corps will not use such uncommercial stuff.)

But who cares, I heard "best practices" and many other big-business-stuck-in-past Dilbertesque memes muttered numerous times. Left it to them to make contact if they so wanted.

They have not ;)

February 3, 06:
Was cordially invited by Laurent and his friends to do a 15 minutes demo at Lift06 in Geneva. Did my homework, decided to do the only right thing - give an intro to the background, not easy to understand thingamy without it... With Keynote at hand, ten minutes slides and background, five minutes demo - and numerous rehearsals I was eager to go.

In Geneva I was the last of four demos, last minutes before lunch on a Friday... Having seen the others (good ones!) do only generic Powerpoint presentations, not a real product is sight, I decided to show a real product the full fifteen minutes.
The program was delayed, people getting hungry and me changing the plan in last minute - smart! Up I go and try to show people in twelve minutes a system different from all other systems ever and that can do almost all you need in an organisation... yeah, as if, very smart...

Had a few coming back "I was very confused!", while Ian and Jens Christian were more blunt - "Why the heck did you change the plan???"

Well, needed a day in the department of steep learning curves I guess :D