Category: Useful Things

WebEx Delegation

I learned that there are two kinds of delegation in WebEx, and they work independently.

You can delegate someone to SCHEDULE your meetings.  It’s a setting on your own profile and applies to all your meetings from then on.   Then when they scheduling from the WebEx interface, they will be prompted to ask if they are doing it for themselves or for you.  This is perfect for any assistant.

You can also schedule someone to START and RUN your meetings.  You do this when you schedule the meeting, and it’s specific to that meeting.  Then, when they log into their WebEx account, they will have the option to Start, rather than Join, that meeting.

The best part about learning this is that I went to figure this out after hearing that someone else had “delegated” a WebEx meeting and I later learned that I had misunderstood and she didn’t know about this feature either!

YES I want cash back!

After a zillion years of using my Digital Credit Union (DCU) card, and thinking that they reimburse me for surcharges from other banks’ Automatic Teller Machines (or ATMs)  because I have direct deposit, I learned that they only reimburse up to $5 a month for this!

The answer: If you are not at a DCU ATM (who is?  I never am!) then get your cash at the register when you make a purchase.

Actually, now that I am typing this, I seem to remember Sally buying gum and getting cash.  Did she already know this???

UsTube

I learned how to post on YouTube and I posted a video from a Taiko workshop with many of the WomenSpiritSong drummers.   It was easy – I just followed the instructions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NZRN3fSQu8

The first half is people trying to decide where to stand, so if you want to see the drumming, forward through. 

Later I will learn how to edit videos!

Yelp to Go

I just learned that the Yelp app on my blackberry is amazing. I don’t even remember how I got it. I think Kat downloaded it in NYC when the browser version was so lame it was unusable.

It finds restaurants near my current location (using cell tower triangulation I’m sure) which would be handy if I could get this bus to pull over for a hot bagel.

I looked up burgers in my town and the first review I hit was by Sally who I think has some kind of yelp jedi level status or something

Wicked cool tool!

Shred Lightly

I learned, the hard way, never to overwhelm a flimsy home paper shredder with a serial shredding job.

First, the thing overheats and shuts down.

Then, it stops autofeeding unless you hit reverse before evert new page.

Then, it ends up being a one-page, reverse-first shredder forever more.  Even though it was designed for 5 pages at a time, and the sad label still says so, even two pages at a time are WAY too much now.

Instead, take large jobs to some place like this – cheap and easy! http://www.absolutedatadestruction.com/

Or have a bonfire, like Caren did!

 

The Case for Exercise – of sorts

In a non-work discussion about how exposing yourself (and babies) to germs just helps build the immune system, my distance-colleague Eric shared that he has the same attitude about the health of his liver: you have to work it out to keep it fit.

Who knew?  Have one for me.  And another one for Eric.

Carry On for Carrion!

This was an awful lesson.

I have learned that if a huge bird crashes into your picture window of your beach house, dying on your front porch chair, and you want to move it for Other Creatures to dispose of it for you and return it to nature from whence it came, then you must move it FAR!

Like get a shovel and bring it to the beach!

Because otherwise those Other Creatures will do their work, surely enough, within hours, but they will leave ALL the feathers right there in front of the porch !!

Ickkkkkkkkkk.