I have to quite liking the new Microsoft Office Ribbon interface. Sometime I might write a longer post on why I think it;s an improvement. In the short-term though, here’s something I just discovered.
If you move the mouse cursor up into the ribbon you can use the scroll wheel on your mouse to move through the menus.
This year I’ve had some fun writing about the tools that I use. At the beginning of the series someone asked me to include regular summaries which I have only been moderately good at. So here is the summary for the end of 2008 because I’m not sure I’m going to write anymore before its 2009.
It’s interesting what our response to some questions are.
You have a ticket to the theatre which cost £20 and a £20 note in your pocket. When you get to the theatre you have lost the ticket. Do you buy another ticket?
You have two £20 notes in your pocket. When you get tot the theatre you have lost one of the £20 notes. Do you buy a ticket to the theatre?
Your first reaction to these questions and your considered response might be significantly different. The problem with estimating the value is that we use very strange (complex) logic.
I spend a lot of time helping people to change there business by bringing extra value to the way that they do things. These changes normally involve IT, because that’s my area of expertise, but not always. Understanding and agreeing what the value of any particular activity is can be quite a stressful exercise, particularly when it comes to the decision to spend money.
The values that people place on things has always fascinated and frustrated me. Surprisingly few decisions are based cold hard economics. The value is often much more subjective, or so it appears to me. Perhaps I’m just not seeing the complicated value judgement that they are making. Perhaps my value judgement is missing important elements.
I don’t have any answers here, I’m just making an observation, but I’m not the only one that sees the paradox. Dan Gilbert does a much better job of explaining than I do.
If you ever want to extend your thinking TED is a really good place to start.
The Cost and the Value of Virtual Meetings – I’m starting to evolve my thinking on this, we need to think more holistically about the end-user experience of collaboration.
I thought I might try a random Top 10 today. Top 10 lists are not normally my stile, but lets give it a go anyway.
There are just times when I would like people to know things without me telling them, so I thought I would tell everyone, so now everyone should know. In no particular order then:
That email you have just sent me with “VIRUS ALERT” in the title id 99.999999% certain to be a hoax. Please check before sending it to me, it’s quite easy.
Yes, I have seen the christmasbonus.pps, it was mildly funny in 1999 when I first saw it, the humour value has been down hill all the way since then.
There is no space at the end of a word before it’s punctuation mark “like this.” – “not like this .”
Just because you have sent me an email doesn’t mean I have read it – even if you put “URGENT” in the title.
Having a policy that sets the screen saver lock-out to be 5 mins might be good for security, but really messes up a presentation.
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