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> WimpyPoint is a free service offered by ArsDigita. You enter the
> presentation online, and it's stored on our servers. Then you can view
> the presentation anywhere in the world with an Internet connection.
>
> So yes, Oracle is needed, but it's not a problem because you use aD's
> copy of Oracle.
The 1st corollary to Murphy's Law is that the internet will break
at its most critical point at the least opportune time. I've found
that it's quite simple to drop a powerpoint presentation on a laptop,
but much more complex to reconfigure a laptop on a foreign network
when it's time to make a presentation. (And dropping a set of HTML
files on that laptop is usually easier than making sure PowerPoint
is happy today.)
Anyone who remembers Abigail's Parse::RecDescent talk might remember
that we spent half an hour trying to configure philly, boston
and st. louis to be synchronized at the beginning of the talk because
something near pm.org decided to take that half hour to hiccup.
So, the one benefit PowerPoint has over WimpyPoint is a few dozen
fewer points of failure. :-)
Z.
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