• Help me with a video workflow

    Today I was trying to take a part of a YouTube video and getting it inserted into a PowerPoint presentation. I’m pretty sure the workflow that eventually accomplished this feat could use some improvement. I started by grabbing the FLV and converting it to AVI using Vixy.net. Then I tried to simply bring the AVI…

  • Your Proofs are too Small!

    Note to professional photographers: If you’re working an event as the photographer, and giving attendees the opportunity to view proofs and purchase prints online, you might sell a few more if the online proofs were large enough that I could actually tell whether anyone in the group might have their eyes shut, or mouth open,…

  • RSSifying the Splash Page

    The last time I redesigned the blog to give folks the option of following just blog posts tagged as tech or litigation support, etc. I changed the front page on the site to a “splash” page, that just pointed to the various sections. (The “Many Faces…” if you will.) That never quite made me happy,…

  • Ghost Tours

    Angela and I went on a Columbus  Landmarks Foundation Ghost Tour last night. For the last 20 years they’ve been doing these tours during the Halloween season. It wasn’t all that different from the Ghost Tour we took this Spring in Gettysburg, you went to some old, spooky places and heard the local ghost stories….

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    Self Marketing

    Let me just say, up front, that I’m not a marketing guy. I don’t work in marketing, and I don’t particularly like the way many places go about marketing. That being said, I know quite a few people who do work in marketing, and I’m always interested in how people in the legal industry market…