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I gave a speech!
Jun. 28th, 2013 02:30 amIt was about Emacs! And stock-trading! And the people I was speaking to didn't like any of it! And I sort of knew that would happen before I even started! I guess I'm just a glutton for punishment, because I keep trying to tell people things I know they don't want to hear.
Anyway, here is a transcript for my talk, which you should definitely click on if your preferred reading material contains text such as "Um, oh, okay, so there we go. All right, so, perhaps if". Clearly, I am not one of the world's best public speakers.
The timestamps in the transcript do not correspond to the original talk, but to this version (which you probably shouldn't bother clicking on). I used audacity to reduce the tempo by 40%, which — due to the magic of mathematics — had the effect of increasing the size of the recording by 70%.
In other news, my Panasonic CF-Y5 laptop's LCD died again, so I got a Dell D620 to replace it. So I had to give this talk using a computer that I had just bought, with an operating system (Mint 15!) that I barely knew how to use. Considering that, things actually went reasonably well.
I had hoped that the guy from OpenText would be there again, but no such luck. So, after my talk, I gave my résumé to the Company ℙ guy, but I guess there's no reason to expect any employment interest from him any time soon.
Anyway, here is a transcript for my talk, which you should definitely click on if your preferred reading material contains text such as "Um, oh, okay, so there we go. All right, so, perhaps if". Clearly, I am not one of the world's best public speakers.
The timestamps in the transcript do not correspond to the original talk, but to this version (which you probably shouldn't bother clicking on). I used audacity to reduce the tempo by 40%, which — due to the magic of mathematics — had the effect of increasing the size of the recording by 70%.
In other news, my Panasonic CF-Y5 laptop's LCD died again, so I got a Dell D620 to replace it. So I had to give this talk using a computer that I had just bought, with an operating system (Mint 15!) that I barely knew how to use. Considering that, things actually went reasonably well.
I had hoped that the guy from OpenText would be there again, but no such luck. So, after my talk, I gave my résumé to the Company ℙ guy, but I guess there's no reason to expect any employment interest from him any time soon.
