3/27/07

Google Docs & Spreadsheets Tour

Google Docs & Spreadsheets Tour


Finally had the opportunity to use Google Docs with multiple users, in different locations, editing the same document at the same time. Completely seamless. I was impressed.

I sit on the executive of a non-profit society. We have to get a presentation ready for a board meeting. I created the document, used everybody's email to invite them to collaborate and away we went. Every change automatically saves a new version of the document allowing you to see who made what change and roll back to any version of the document.

A gmail address is not required though if you collaborate regularly it would be useful since you could then use the Google Chat (IM client) built into email and/or Google Talk (voice over ip) while working.

Documents can be uploaded and downloaded in MS office, Open Office and rich text, comma seperated value formats.

3/18/07

Sad, Mad, Glad



In this video I am holding up small foam circles with faces on them corresponding to the various emotions.

If she really wants to be Cinderella....


No point in half measures. She needs to experience the entire Cinderella story. :-)

3/12/07

The Space Review: The dozen space weapons myths

The Space Review: The dozen space weapons myths: "As an attempt at a roadmap through this space minefield, here is my own take on the ideas that need to be avoided or discarded on the trek towards a useful plan for handling the subject and for developing a workable, reality-based response to the problem."

How to Grow a Super-Athlete - New York Times

How to Grow a Super-Athlete - New York Times: "A quick analysis of this talent map reveals some splashy numbers: for instance, the average woman in South Korea is more than six times as likely to be a professional golfer as an American woman. But the interesting question is, what underlying dynamic makes these people so spectacularly unaverage in the first place? What force is causing those from certain far-off places to become, competitively speaking, superior?"