I wanted to post a video that one of my coworkers, Olya, did to help new users understand OneNote: It is super quick and useful and also you might notice that music in the background is done by another OneNote team member, Mike.
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OneNote in 90-seconds, a video to share with friends new to OneNote
by Laurissa Kastle I’ve been listening to and reading so much lately about the craft of writing that I now forget where I heard the recommendation to read James Scott Bell’s Plot & Structure: Techniques and exercises for crafting a plot that grips readers from start to finish . This book and others I’ve read address the reality that there is a limited number of basic plots and that a writer must noodle his or her basic plot to make it unique in order to capture its audience and a publisher (something I think often about as an unpublished writer).
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What Are My Chances?
…and all the men and women merely players. ( As You Like It; Shakespeare, of course) by Jennie Bentley/Bente Gallagher Back in April, I had the pleasure of attending the Southern Kentucky Book Fest, with such writing lights as Lisa Scottoline, Teresa Medeiros, Beverle Graves Myers, Jane Cleland, Trish Milburn, and others.
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All the world’s a stage…
By Laurissa Kastle I used to be that girl: the one who played her favorite single over and over for days on end, annoying everyone else in the household and some summers, the entire neighborhood (no air conditioning = heat = open windows, much to the dismay of the neighbors). Also, I tended to keep the volume a little higher than necessary
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Oldies but Goodies
Just a bit of a cross-post: OneNote has plenty of new features for Office 2010, but in this short video, Doug Thomas from Office Casual gives a simple overview of this program for gathering and sharing ideas; a scrapbook for your computer.
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Office Casual: OneNote – An all too brief introduction
Looks like the Royal Society of Chemistry has an annual award for Teamwork in Innovation and this year in 2010 they awarded it to Pfizer for their shared notebook solution using OneNote 2010! Details here: RSC Teamwork in Innovation 2010 Winners – Pfizer Global R&D Team RSC Teamwork in Innovation 2010 Winners Pfizer Global R&D Team Pfizer UK For developing e-notebook technology into a seamless, efficient and easy-to-use format for sharing About the winners Pfizer is the world’s largest pharmaceutical company employing 80,000 people across the globe in the research, development, manufacture and sales of drugs for humans and animals. Every year Pfizer helps over 150 million people throughout the world live longer, healthier lives.
By Pat Remick In the past two months, I’ve seen the inside of the county jail, holding cells in four police stations, the district courthouse and a police cruiser. I’ve become familiar with TASERS , traffic radar, illegal narcotics, SWAT teams and K-9 dogs. I’ve had a taste of what it’s like to be so drunk you can’t walk in a straight line (sobriety goggles), along with the adrenaline rush and fear of facing someone who might want to kill you (shooting simulator).
Vinnie Potestivo knows a thing or two about casting reality-TV shows. He got his start at the Tom Green show on MTV, and went on to cast all the MTV V.J.’s, as well as Fashionably Loud and the Road Rules shows. He now runs his own company, Vinnie Potestivo Entertainment , which cast and produced Sunset Daze , the new Real World -for-senior-citizens show on WE (a new episode premieres tonight).
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Reality-TV Casting Director Vinnie Potestivo on Finding Just the Right Amount of Crazy
Yo La Tengo is following up last year’s Popular Songs with a remix EP featuring De La Soul, RJD2, and Pete Rock tackling Songs ’ “Here to Fall,” and Rock’s version is now available. It’s really great! Drastically tightening up the original’s loosey-goosey structure, Rock comes out the other side with something heavier, eerier, and more foreboding, but still familiar; it’s the hardest Yo La Tengo has ever sounded. Quick question, though: Are we sure Pete Rock knows who Yo La Tengo is?
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The Pete Rock–Yo La Tengo Remix You’ve Been Waiting For Is Here
First Skids and Mudflap , and now this! Presumably owing to her comparing him to Hitler and accusing the director of trying to kill her on the set of last year’s Transformers 2 , Michael Bay has opted not to bring back Megan Fox for Transformers 3 . Nikki Finke reports that Bay and writers are currently finishing T3 ‘s script (shooting begins next month, by the way) and have suddenly decided that “giving Shia [LaBeouf] a new love interest makes more sense for the story” — and what is a Transformers movie without a sense-making story, after all? Bay had previously slapped back at Fox in two letters — one anonymous and one on which he signed his name in the wrong place — but we guess he was still mad
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Megan Fox Dropped From Transformers 3 Like a Jive-Talking Autobot
There may not be a more composed, sophisticated, and veteran actress at Cannes than Juliette Binoche. So it was quite a shock to see her crying on the stage of her press conference for Copie Conforme ( Certified Copy ), a mysterious, subtle romance shot in Tehran in which she and actor William Shimell are directed by Iranian auteur Abbas Kiarostami. The question that prompted her tears regarded the status of Kiarostami’s good friend, Iranian director Jafar Panahi (whose most recent, exceptional film Offside follows female Iranian soccer fans who sneak into a match and get nabbed).
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Juliette Binoche at Cannes: Promoting a New Movie and Fighting for an Imprisoned Friend
“I’ve always really wanted to play a prince — some people might say I am in a lot of ways a princess.” — Jake Gyllenhaal [ Sun UK ] “[F]or the most part I’m not totally convinced [by women directors, except for] Andrea Arnold, Kathryn Bigelow, Sofia Coppola … [And American Psycho director] Mary Harron to a degree. There’s something about the medium of film itself that I think requires the male gaze. ..
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Princess Jake’s Latest Role Kind of a Stretch
I am sure for those of you who are running OneNote 2010, even the RTM version (lucky MSDN folks), when you go to the Backstage you are pretty disappointed by this screen: I have seen a bunch of questions on the newsgroup/forums where people are asking why this is still unavailable and when it will be available. Well I just wanted to let you know that you will be able to store your notebooks in Windows Live SkyDrive once Windows Live Wave 4 is live.
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OneNote notebooks on Windows Live SkyDrive – coming soon
Mc Transformers -y : Patrick Dempsey has been added to the cast of Transformers 3 . The Grey’s Anatomy star will join returning stars Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox in the Michael Bay-directed film. EW reports that Dempsey will play Fox’s boss in the film, “a darker character” who is “significant to the plot.” Based on this and last week’s rumblings , it may be wise for Shonda Rhimes to start thinking about looking for a new McDreamy.
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Industry Roundup: Patrick Dempsey Trades In Scrubs For Transformers 3 Role
The music video for Miley Cyrus’ “Can’t Be Tamed” is out tonight and it’s a Gaga Lite production, with a glammed-up Cyrus in the role of “the rarest creature on Earth, Avis Cyrus” (presumably a reference to the Latin word for bird, not the rental car company). Cyrus wears a bunch of flashy costumes (including a $25,000 corset ), performs some surprisingly appealing choreography, and really, really wants us to know that she’s not Hannah Montana anymore.
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Miley Cyrus Debuts Mature Look in ‘Can’t Be Tamed’ Video
Corey Haim died from natural causes, the Los Angeles County coroner announced today, explaining that a drug test revealed that drugs were not a “significant contributing factor” in the death of the actor at 38 . Haim passed away from “damage to the air sacs in his lungs, pneumonia, and a hardening of his heart muscle with plaque build-up within the blood vessels,” according to the coroner. At the time of Haim’s death, police said that an overdose was a possible cause of death.
ABC has agreed to expand the Lost series finale by an extra half-hour, meaning the May 23 final episode will now run from 9 to 11:30 p.m. Freaks who actually care about things happening in the real world will be out of luck, as the local news will be cut, with Jimmy Kimmel’s Aloha to Lost post-finale special airing at 11:30
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Lost Series Finale Gains 30 Minutes
A 1932 Picasso painting sold for $106.5 million — a world-record auction price for a work of art — at Christie’s tonight. The painting, Nu au Plateau de Sculpteur (Nude, Green Leaves and Bust) , was created by the painter in a single day and features Picasso’s mistress, Marie-Therese Walter.
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Picasso Sells at Auction for World-Record Price
Who knew classic “that guy” Elias Koteas (Casey Jones from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles !) would have so many fun stories about sitting next to athletes on flights? At last night’s reading of Speak Truth to Power: Voices Beyond the Dark , a benefit for Habitat for Humanity that also featured Meryl Streep, Viggo Mortensen, Julianne Moore, Alfred Molina, and Marcia Gay Harden, we got Koteas to spill the beans on his recent in-flight run-in with Reggie Jackson.
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Party Lines Slideshow: Elias Koteas, Meryl Streep, Viggo Mortensen, and More at Speak Truth to Power
If you’ve already read Jerry Saltz’s review of the Met’s Picasso show — with its huge trove of the non-cubist works that book-ended the great artist’s career — see the art captured here, on video, as New York ’s critic conducts a tour of the exhibit. And if you haven’t read the review, for shame , watch the video and whet your appetite for Saltz’s explanation of why works that even the museum’s curator finds lacking are, in fact, great
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Jerry Saltz Takes You Through the Met’s Massive Picasso Show