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My career is taking a turn for the worse. No doubt some of you consider that getting paid to bash off 750 ill-judged and frequently inaccurate words every Friday morning about one’s inability to use a computer correctly is an obstacle that you might suffer to stumble over as you stagger along your own rocky career path. I’m …

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  1. Andrew Moore
    Coat

    Hmmmm....

    I wonder what the fear of PowerPoint presentations is? Exousiastigmiphobia?

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Coat

      Re: Hmmmm....

      Dunamaichmophobia.

      It is derived from the Greek Dunamis (power/action, Ancient Greek: δύναμις) aichmē (point) and phobos (fear).

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      1. Anonymous Custard
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        Re: Hmmmm....

        I wonder what the fear of PowerPoint presentations is? Exousiastigmiphobia?

        Experience? Entirely sensible self-preservation? Garberphobia (after the lady who coined the death by PowerPoint phrase)?

        Or howabout Illiteraphobia - the fear that the presenter thinks you're illiterate and so has to patiently read every word of every slide that he has like a script, without actually adding anything to it?

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    Is this one of the (many) reasons El Reg is not allowed

    to any Apple press / product announcements?

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  3. Anonymous Custard

    Don McMillan

    Reminds me of the classic Life after Death by PowerPoint

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    1. John H Woods Silver badge
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      Re: Don McMillan

      Thanks Don,

      One for the collection - along with such gems as:

      http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/

      http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001yB&topic_id=1

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      1. Anonymous Coward
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        Re: Don McMillan

        The solution to powerpoint:

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlDWRZ7IYqw

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  4. Ugotta B. Kiddingme
    Coffee/keyboard

    most excellent

    "...incomprehensible phonetic English that would make Bengali call-centre staff sound like David Niven."

    well done, good sir. I should have known better than to be drinking hot coffee whilst reading your missive. My sinus cavities and monitor are rather the worse for it.

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  5. Terry Cloth

    Someone speaks with forkéd tongue

    Examining the eminent Mr Dabbs's 2010 interview with Features Exec[1], we find the exchange:

    Q: Do you find press conferences, trips, parties and other events useful or an interruption?

    A: They are always useful.

    Ahem.

    @Mrs B J Smegma: In the same location, we find him noting he was the first non-U.S. journo to test the original iMac, so 'twas not always thus.

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    [1]http://www.featuresexec.com/bulletin/interview_article.php?id=11689

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  6. gromm

    So what you're saying is...

    So, giant corporations *aren't* trying to bribe the press with hookers and blow?

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