virus Archives – Breaking Murphy's Law

There are a lot of things that can go wrong when you're a presenter (or when you are supporting someone else's presentation). This site is going to try to help you break Murphy's Law so Murphy's Law can't break you. (more...)

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Four Ways Presentation Mishaps Are Like Zombies…

Sunday, August 29th, 2010

or “Lesson Learned by Watching Shaun of the Dead.” 1) Until the moment they suddenly become mindless, snarling, death-dealing horrors, a zombie (like whatever it was that caused your current presentation mishap) often appears about as threatening as your Mom. A projector with a burned out lamp looks like any other projector. A virus laden [...]

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Promiscuous Sticks

Monday, June 28th, 2010

Last weekend, veteran AV pro Rick Pillars, a frequent contributor to BML and owner of It’s a Rap Productions, started a Facebook post with these dreadful words: “So, a bad thing happened yesterday. I plugged my USB drive into the show computer.” I asked Rick if I could use the brief but instructive story he [...]

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