What a day. 

I made it up north to the PMI Tech LIG's lunch meeting, featuring  a presentation by William Hurley on Open Source. Interesting.  I went solely to know what's being talked about, and now I want to learn even more about Open Source in Enterprise environments. 

My only issue with it was the poor choice in fonts, background, and colors for graphs.  I have a "thing" about poorly designed presentations.  I want to hack power point backgrounds out of all computers, they're so overused.  If you look in the blogroll over on the left, you'll see I have a link to PresentationZen, and a new one as well for Edward Tufte.

I bring this up because later today, while being a chatty slug on IRC whilst multi-tasking various and sundry things, I learned about Tufte, and I'm embarrassed to say I had never heard of him before. Why, I have no idea; seriously, people like me are groupies for people like him. 

I was venting about PP and the aesthetics and layout of presentations and making them easier to read (I can barely read the handouts I have from the presentation), and someone mentions Edward Tufte and LibraryThing (they're not connected, but the same person told me about them).  Tufte is apparently the guy on information design and interface design.  I must purchase The Visual Display of Quantitative Information and soon.  Guy Kawaski, move over, I found a new infogeek crush (I'm sure Guy is sooo not devastated by this).

LibraryThing is a geeky little tool for tracking your personal library.  I heart that, too. Someday I'll move my media inventory from an excel workbook to that.  Someday.  Thanks, L, for both tips.  I owe ya!

In less exciting news, I'm still waiting to find out if I can take the PMP exam.  Oh, the suspense!!