Archive for April, 2009
I like to make things – my Toastmasters speech
Our local Toastmasters club selected me to compete in this year’s International Speech Competition. So, I got up early one Saturday and competed. My speech was entitled, “I Like to Make Things,” and I hope it captured how important creativity is to me; I talk about building a theatre organ from a kit when I [...]
April 2nd, 2009 by alephnaught
For Toastmasters: Table Topics
Toastmasters is a structured program to learn how to give good speeches. One section of a meeting is called “Table Topics,” which is an opportunity for people to speak extemporaneously. It can be hard to develop good Table Topics questions, so I’d like to suggest two that worked (very well, I got a lot of [...]
April 1st, 2009 by alephnaught
Tweets from purplehayz on 2009-04-01
Goedemorgen! Hoe gaat het met jou? # Blackberry App World is now available: http://bit.ly/mY7 # @eunice007 I’ve been up since 4A – jet lag sux # @Mistress_Divine Have fun (sure you will)! # @BrendaBDSM Its a connection and trust thing I think # @eunice007 Italy for 10 days; coming home is always worst, I wonder [...]
April 1st, 2009 by alephnaught
Blackberry App World quick review and pointer to a more detailed one
As I was reading the Engadget RSS feed, I saw an entry on Blackberry App World, so I grabbed a copy (you need to go to the Blackberry web site to download this application). And it seems to work. I’ve downloaded a free application already (a calorie counter) and will be downloading a few more. [...]
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+Bob Hays
- I'm a father and husband, have two schipperkes, like to read, compose music, travel. And I manage a couple software development teams at DIRECTV.
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April 2nd, 2009 by alephnaught