SlideShare has announced the results for the World’s Best Presentation contest and these are the top three.
If you look at them carefully, there are at least three elements common among all the winning entries – the use of large fonts, there’s very little amount of text used in slides and you’ll find no more than one picture in each slide and it often fills up the entire space.
Hopefully it remains free, but it probably wont as it seems to offer some valuable services to those of us with websites. First reason why I want to use it is it’s a Content Delivery Network which should make my sites load faster for people far from the UK where the sites are hosted, which in turn will reduce the load on the server making it run faster in general as static content is progressively served from elsewhere.
There are security benefits as well, once you use their DNS servers traffic is filtered by origin to keep scumbags away from your sites via the Project Honeypot service. Project Honeypot maintains a list of known IPs who have been caught spamming or attempting attacks either because they are actually malicious attackers or because their machine has a trojan installed on it. You can think of it as smart free firewall cloud hosting, hopefully this will also bring an end to the dictionary attacks on my database servers as well.
You get pretty nice stats summaries giving an idea of how many of those masses of visitors are real people versus web crawlers, also giving you info about how much bandwidth has been saved by the CDN for those of you who pay by volume of data (I don’t).
Bit strange to see some other IP address come up from nslookup on your domains, but if it means no more spammers, zombies, XSS attackers, faster performance.. well. it’s just an experiment for a couple of weeks at least but so far so good.
Try cloudflare yourself if you like.
Friday we were at sway in covent garden for a jongleurs stand up comedy night follows by night clubbing, two bottles of wine, lots of cider and some seriously funny comedians like Rudi Lickwood and later all added up to a great night out on friday.
Getting the deal on offer from crowdity on thursday we got the comedy, a drink, and 3 rooms clubbing entry all for just £8, usually it’s £30 just to get into the comedy!.
Saturday was spent getting over a massive hangover, packing up more stuff as we should be moving house soon; then going off to the Loch Fyne restaurant in twickenham, we had £60 of clubcard vouchers to spend there but when we got there noticed on the door they were no longer accepting those.. so up the road to the pub we went for a delicous meal instead with great service.
Sunday morning we are off on a road trip, to the peak district, a spa hotel called Barceló Buxton Palace Hotel in Buxton. The drive up was pretty good except for a 10 mile stretch of the M1 being a a 50MPH average speed camera zone… testing…
The hotel has an impressive reception, really friendly staff, the room was huge but needed renovation for sure, but the massage and facial treatments we had were pretty good, we even used the gym for an hour!, then a bit of pool, sauna, and steam room for me.
Also included in the £89 a night price was a three course dinner that was very good quality indeed again with great service. The following morning we had a delicious breakfast fryup buffet breakfast there in the elegant restaurant while looking forward to what we booked the night before…. For £89 each we got one night 4* hotel, massage, facials, 3 course dinner, and a huge breakfast.. great value.
Sunday for 3 hours we spent doing one of the most exciting things ever, it’s called GoApe which is ‘high-wire forest adventure’ and was just insane, climbing up rope ladders to walk 20 metres high between the trees on wires and getting to zip w
ire down three times… if you want one hell of an adrenaline rush then do this go ape thing, they are all over the UK.
On the way back to London we stopped off at the loch fyne in St Albans to blow the vouchers so we had £65 worth of food for a fiver, good old tesco clubcard.
Strong passwords are a bitch to come up with, but become a lot easier with this simple rule below.
Need to turn a password you can remember in your head into one that looks like you could never remember it – or the person looking over your shoulder?
Keep your usual password if you need to; just move your fingers over one space on the keyboard to the left or right.
If you want a secure password without having to remember anything complex, try shifting your fingers one set of keys to the right. It will make your password look like gibberish, will often add in punctuation marks, and is quick and simple.
It’s not as good as going for a complex strong password but it’s probably stronger than what you have now.
The O2 Joggler will be available at 1/2 price for a period of 2 weeks from 2nd April.
You can now download free Apps (from 1st April) from the O2 App store (inc Google maps, You Tube, Google Calendar etc).
Offer ends 15th April
The OS kernel runs on Linux 2.6
The GUI is Flash based: Flash 10 and Action Script 3
Display
7 diagonal TFT LCD with 16.7M colors (24 bits)
800?80 resolution (WVGA), 225 dpi
Brightness: 350 cd/m2
Contrast: 300:1
Viewing angle: 130° horizontal, 110° vertical
Glass-surface touchscreen
Capacitive touch
No stylus
What others are saying about the Joggler
“Well the O/H was not impressed that I bought one as she said its just a useless gadget but now she listens to the internet radio through the aux input on her kitchen mini system. She has all her fav stations saved and as I type she is dancing around the kitchen and just said this thing is fantastic”"

