If you’re going to be doing any kind of demonstration from your laptop, in the name of all that’s holy, create a demo user account. This will accomplish two things:
- It’ll ensure that you didn’t leave an IM client logged in, and
- It’ll hide your desktop icons and browser bookmarks (which hopefully aren’t as revealing as this desktop, but will still likely distract from your presentation).
I personally enjoy these kinds of diversions, but I was just reminded of the rules as I IM’d someone who, it turns out, was teaching at the time, and who will no doubt make it my fault when I get home. Convincing everyone to follow the “make a demo account” rule is the only way I can think of to keep myself out of trouble - changing everyone on the planet is preferable to stopping myself from starting conversations with dirty words… :)
dave | 29-Nov-06 at 11:51 pm | Permalink
We went to do a demo at Encyclopedia Britannica once. Our creative director used his laptop to project the stuff on screen and on the desktop he had a folder labeled “star trek nudes”. One of our geeky coworkers had a bachelor party coming up and he was making the invite.
Jason | 30-Nov-06 at 6:53 am | Permalink
I once did a demo for someone and had to explain why I had a bookmark folder called “porn” on my browser bar, along with why it was full of agriculture links (for those who don’t know me, it was full of vegan research)…