Rose Baker and I are busy with preparations for our trip to Tucson, Arizona to make our presentation, The Power of Information Markets, to 70 or so "thought leaders" attending a pre-conference meeting at the 2006 Annual Global Conference of the Human Resource Planning Society. Our 59-slide presentation occurs very early on Sunday morning, 23 April, at a breakfast meeting. By tomorrow, I will have a narrated PowerPoint presentation recorded for streaming on the web site I will put up to supplement our presentation. I will post the URL here when it is ready.

Long haul out and back to Tucson. We travel on Saturday, 22 April, from State College, Pennsylvania, to Washington, DC, to Denver, and landing finally in Tucson after an approximately 12 hour trip. One day in Tucson, and, then, it's back to State College along the same long route on Monday. Consolation: the conference hotel is pretty nice.

The University of Pittsburgh faculty/staff newspaper, University Times, ran a nice article about my daughter Maureen's poetry and other published work (13 April 2006, volume 38, issue 15). She is very accomplished, and I am very proud of her and her work. And, in addition to birthing great literature, she will give birth to a human baby around 1 July. The child will be born with a Chicago Manual of Style on order, I am sure.

A web version of the University of Pittsburgh article is available. The photo of Maureen in the article was taken in the Ukrainian Classroom in the Cathedral of Learning (see related article) at the University of Pittsburgh.

An Amazon.com link to Maureen's book, Stranger Truths, is available as is information from her publisher's web site. Nice review in Ukrainian Weekly.

Maureen is Project Coordinator for the Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Health Sciences.

I was 3 or 4 years old. I didn't drink coffee, then.

From Evil Power Has a Point:

"Les Posen, Melbourne psychiatrist, Macintosh fan and expert in treating fear of flying (http://www.flightwise.com.au), read in a Microsoft bulletin somewhere that 30 million PowerPoint presentations occur every day," Garry Barker writes for The Sydney Morning Herald. "No wonder the planet is in trouble. If, on average, each presentation lasts an hour, and each sends 10 people to sleep or stuns their minds with an overkill of multi-coloured pie charts and graphics that makes them think they have ridden a motorbike into a locust swarm, PowerPoint could be reducing world productivity by 300 million man-hours a day."

Passmore caught striding out of Thomas Building auditorium on the University Park Campus of Penn State after the keynote speech by Henry Jenkins III at the 2006 Penn State Symposium on Teaching and Learning wityh Technology on 8 April 2006.
Not sure whether I had a smile on my face because it was a good speech (well, it was) or because I was hunting a cup of coffee (good, too!).