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Notes and asides...
Mar. 22nd, 2006 11:11 amWhen the weather announcer from one of the Denver stations mentioned "Pagosa Springs" during her spiel on the tube last night, I had missed what it was that caused her to actually mention the name of the town, since such mention is so rare, we might as well be located in New Jersey, or something. I got the distinct feeling she was letting all of her viewers in on the fact that Something Notable™ was going to happen around these here parts.
Well, it was nothing spectacular, but we did get about 6 inches of snow at our elevation, which is good news, and visibility is not so good, meaning that it's probably still falling in the vicinity, and almost certainly up on the mountain. To balance that intelligence, our downhill neighbor has yet to come by and plow our driveway, which makes getting back up something of a toss-up for Galina.
I've got four PowerPoint presentations to work on this morning, and I must say that whoever is putting them together is doing a better job - from the layout perspective - than his predecessors. While some slides still retain that certain unpleasant density of text (so much so that I have to reduce the font size to squeeze it all into a limited piece of real estate), others are remarkably informative without the prolixity.
I briefly got reacquainted with CityDesk yesterday; I seem to recall that my old confrère Zack Urlocker, who currently hangs his professional hat at MySQL, had many good things to say about the software, and used it to manage his rather distinctive Valley of the Geeks website (which, alas, seems to be on hiatus). To be frank, my only major objection to CityDesk is the price point: I can't see spending $300 (even if you discount the price 25%) to manage a fairly small site that will certainly exceed 50 files (including images, etc.), which is the breakpoint between the free and paid versions of the software, but not by much.
Secure in the faith that someone out there must have developed an OSS content management system, I ran smack dab into something called Mambo. All I can say at this point is: wow! Whereas CityDesk uses the machine at your end of the Internet for editing, etc., with subsequent "publishing" of content to your site via FTP, Mambo puts all of the capability at the site's end of the wire. At this point, the major lack is that of time on my part to learn how to use the software.
And the lack of time is what forces me to turn back to PowerPoint. I've finished one of the files, now on to the next!
Cheers...
Well, it was nothing spectacular, but we did get about 6 inches of snow at our elevation, which is good news, and visibility is not so good, meaning that it's probably still falling in the vicinity, and almost certainly up on the mountain. To balance that intelligence, our downhill neighbor has yet to come by and plow our driveway, which makes getting back up something of a toss-up for Galina.
I've got four PowerPoint presentations to work on this morning, and I must say that whoever is putting them together is doing a better job - from the layout perspective - than his predecessors. While some slides still retain that certain unpleasant density of text (so much so that I have to reduce the font size to squeeze it all into a limited piece of real estate), others are remarkably informative without the prolixity.
I briefly got reacquainted with CityDesk yesterday; I seem to recall that my old confrère Zack Urlocker, who currently hangs his professional hat at MySQL, had many good things to say about the software, and used it to manage his rather distinctive Valley of the Geeks website (which, alas, seems to be on hiatus). To be frank, my only major objection to CityDesk is the price point: I can't see spending $300 (even if you discount the price 25%) to manage a fairly small site that will certainly exceed 50 files (including images, etc.), which is the breakpoint between the free and paid versions of the software, but not by much.
Secure in the faith that someone out there must have developed an OSS content management system, I ran smack dab into something called Mambo. All I can say at this point is: wow! Whereas CityDesk uses the machine at your end of the Internet for editing, etc., with subsequent "publishing" of content to your site via FTP, Mambo puts all of the capability at the site's end of the wire. At this point, the major lack is that of time on my part to learn how to use the software.
And the lack of time is what forces me to turn back to PowerPoint. I've finished one of the files, now on to the next!
Cheers...
