How do people have time not to blog is more like it! After yesterday’s post about my misadventures with ScientificWord/LaTeX/Beamer/PowerPoint, I received multiple ideas in comments that would work, and then also an e-mail from a certain S.L.M. that involves the least need to do new things or to use different operating systems for my handouts and presentations. Turns out you can export to RTF from Scientific Word, and from RTF of course it’s easy to go to PowerPoint. The equations are all graphics, and still look much better than anything you can do in Word’s equation editor.
The only reason this might not save me any time is that I have a way of allowing course prep to expand to fit whatever window of time is allowed for it. Regardless, I feel so much better about this than I did 24 hours ago.
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Folks have asked me the same thing… “How do you have time to blog?” I wonder to myself, “How long does it take you to write a paragraph? We’re usually talking five minutes. YOU don’t ‘waste’ five minutes of your day?”
The other thing is that by making this an activity, it actually cuts back (a bit) on other things. I go on-line, read some news sites, blog about them, and then I’m “done” with that for the day. When I didn’t blog I CONSTANTLY would go back to the news to see what *new* things had recently happened. So I’m with you Jeremy.
I don’t blog. For the simple reason that it takes me more than 5 minutes to compose a reasonable thought in written form. Writing comes easier for some than others.
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