Jim Lawrence (AccessD)
accessd at shaw.ca
Fri Mar 5 00:50:42 CST 2004
Hi Drew: I fully sympathize...been there down that. My theory/method of doing a presentation is to: 1. Never use a machine that you have not used before. 2. Have someone else test your software, before going to the client's site, because as the designer you are too close to the application and will not see the obvious. 3. If demo-ing software, run through a full scenario, plan ever step and never never deviate from the script...no matter how the client asks. Anything not tested will crash, but only when first showing a client. OT Totally off topic: Went to a client's site to give a talk and demo. On the way to the conference room took the opportunity to smell the tiger lilies, in the reception area. After an hour long presentation, that when better than expected, took a break and while in the washroom notice that pollen from the flowers was all over my face and I looked like the loser in a bad fight. Washed up went back to the meeting but now avoid Tiger Lilies as well as garlic before seeing clients. Jim -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of DWUTKA at marlow.com Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 9:35 AM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: RE: [AccessD] Drew - Age of the Archives? LOL. Been there myself, several times. My biggest 'presentation' issue, is due to the situation I am in. I am half of an IT department, and the rest of the company is relatively clueless when it comes to computers. So when I am presenting a new 'project', I will almost always get a 'This should be easy, but how do I do.....'. What they ask for is usually WAY beyond the scope of the project, but to them, it's just another magic button. Gotta love it! Drew -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of John Bartow Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 9:51 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: RE: [AccessD] Drew - Age of the Archives? I don't blame you, after the run of luck you've had! I'm leery every time I do a presentation. I don't mind speaking in front of people but it seems something always goes wrong - no matter how prepared I am. I've done presentations for conferences where the coordinator guaranteed the equipment was what I asked for and when I show up they have projectors that don't handle 1024x768 which is the only res. at which my laptop's video looks good (640 cuts the text lines up). I had another conference where I was setup 30 minutes early, everything worked fine, unplug my laptop and the first presenter plugs his in, he goes on and finishes, I plug my laptop into the projector and POOF my laptop's screen goes out. It took about 20 minutes to get it all rearranged so that my partner could run the presentation from the projected image rather than the laptop, while I talked about it. (we were showing a new app. live of course.) Luckily there was a third presenter that went on in our time slot and 500 people weren't just sitting there getting irritated. Took a month to get the screen replaced too :o( John BTW AccessD as we know it was formed in 2001 so I guess I have it narrowed down enough now :o) -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of DWUTKA at marlow.com Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 11:47 AM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: RE: [AccessD] Drew - Age of the Archives? I actually gave a presentation on the 'indexing' capabilities I built for the archives last month. After my track record with major changes/updates to the archives, I was just a little leary to give that presentation....go figure! Drew -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of John Bartow Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 11:24 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: RE: [AccessD] Drew - Age of the Archives? Drew, Yes, it is an interesting timeline, I thought of a few of those things too! :o) Thanks, John -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of DWUTKA at marlow.com Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 10:47 AM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: RE: [AccessD] Drew - Age of the Archives? Hmmmm, let's work backwards. I know that the archives stopping archiving this past August/September (2003), because that's when I separated from Tammy. I know the archives started using the 'Memo Field Indexing' in April of 2003, because that is when my apartment caught fire. I know I moved the archives from Marlow to my home in early January of 2003, because my DSL company went bankrupt and pulled the plug on their network then. I have no clue when I actually 'started' the archives, other then a wild guess at about 6 months before I moved it home. So I would say July or August of 2002. Drew (Interesting timeline, eh?) -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of John Bartow Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 9:00 PM To: _DBA-Access Subject: [AccessD] Drew - Age of the Archives? Drew, Someone recently asked me how long I have been on this list. The only point of reference I could think of was about two years before I sent all my archives to Drew! So, Do you know when you put the archives together on your site? 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