Personal

Here is a quick photo of my backstage graphics setup from a recent meeting. Always great to head to Florida during the Winter months for a week!

It’s even better when your wife is working with you!

– Troy @ TLC

It is almost here – PowerPoint 2010! I have been running the pre-beta – beta for 2 months and here it is!

As a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP I have talked with the development team, seen demos, been asked questions and overall impressed. I have been excited about this version for almost 2 years from these interactions and after spending a few months with the near release version (eg. not 100% stable and not 100% functional) I am truly excited.

The month of November is going to almost entirely be focused on PowerPoint 2010… all from my perspective. There is a lot of information on the web about Office 2010, so I am going to list off my top 15 new features/functions from the perspective of a designer who works with the application daily.

And hopefully during this month information on the upcoming public beta will become available. Then you can try it yourself and see if my top features match yours.

– Troy @ TLC

We hosted our annual Pumpkin Carving Party and had a lot of fun with everyone! Flying home today from a show to take my girls out for the trick-or-treat fun.

– Troy @ TLC

PPT Live continues through Wednesday, but I am flying back to Los Angeles for a large project today. But I consider myself very fortunate to enjoy time with the other PowerPoint MVPs and some of the Microsoft PowerPoint program managers.

(front to back, left to right: Sandy Johnson, Echo Swinford, Glenna Shaw, Julie Terberg, Sandy Hu, Tony Ramos, Glen Millar, Troy Chollar, Ric Bretschneider, Jim Gordon, Steve Rindsberg, Bill Dillworth, John Wilson, Geetesh Bajaj)

– Troy @ TLC

Every year Sunday is the official start of PPTLive with some pre-conference courses and everyone checking in.

Had a great dinner with a group of PPT MVPs and other Power Users – YUM, sushi!

– Troy @ TLC

Hope you are enjoying the weekend, reflecting on America and looking forward to a great week!

– Troy @ TLC

Had a great ride the other day and I faithfully followed by Garmin Edge 305 GPS (allows you to download trail maps so you don’t get completely lost) and about 8 miles into my ride I come across this sign:

I think it means I was on a really really great trail!

– Troy @ TLC

Last week between events I was able to stop by the Microsoft Mountain View campus for a few hours and have lunch with Ric Bretschneider. It was one of the first summer sunny days in the area and we enjoyed a great alfresco meal at Michael’s on Shoreline.

– Troy @ TLC