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27 Apr 2024
Where I live we have three types of waste collection. One week we get our refuse collected and the next week we get our recycling collected. For about eight or nine months of the year we also get garden waste collected along with the recycling. I have linked up my Home Assistant instance so that every week, the night before collection I get a notification on my mobile phone as to what is being collected the next day. It has worked great, but I often found myself having to open the Home Assistant app on my phone and find what the collection was going to be ahead of time. As a result I decided I would like to have some sort of visual indicator in my kitchen to let me know what collection was due next. In this post I am going to set out my little journey and what I ended up with.
Read More26 Apr 2024
All of my jobs have involved me communicating information to people during presentations, and during the last decade I have regularly found myself building out non-linear slide decks in Microsoft PowerPoint. These are slide decks that bring together multiple sets of small ‘micro’ presentations on a very narrow and specific topic. I can then use the slide deck to cover any of these topics in any order via a ‘switch board’ slide that simply lets me jump out to these presentations in any order I choose.
I have found this type of deck invaluable for workshops, training sessions, and ad hoc meetings. Being able to jump around seamlessly makes things easier for me and looks slick and professional too. In this post I am going to set out my approach in setting up this sort of slide deck.
Read More31 Mar 2024
This past month I attended my first conference of the year. It was actually a forum of several hundred people, but I have a couple of other similar events coming up. A two day exhibition at the London Expo this coming month and an SAP HR event in May. At this first event all of the non-networking events were taking place in a single large room and I just captured everything on my phone and my work laptop. The next events however are going to be bigger venues with multiple locations for sessions, and even though my laptop is pretty light I’d like to travel lighter still. Dumping the laptop, spare USB C battery pack & cable and replacing them with my iPad and a keyboard (but keeping my iPhone) would be better.
To that end I set about coming up with a new workflow for capturing information at conferences.
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