Archive for November 5, 2002

Tuesday, November 5, 2002

Doing Three People’s Work with One Mac

Derek K. Miller writes for TidBITS about the thrills of being super-productive and publishing on a tight deadline.

I was preparing for three long days in a Toronto hotel putting together a daily newsletter for the large annual conference of the Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS). I would attend sessions, take notes and photographs, write and edit articles, and lay out three four-page issues, distributed overnight to the hundreds of physicians attending, with highlights of the previous day and pointers for the new one.