One of our number has given birth to a beautiful baby girl. We received the birth announcement in corporate email, well sort of. The email hailed the birth date and weight of the baby which would have been sufficient information if we weren’t in the age of digital communications. The upswing was that there was promise of pictures on the other side of the hyperlink.

hyperlink -> nasty shared database thingie -> PowerPoint presentation

A PowerPoint presentation, three pictures, three landscape slides, the last being out of bounds because it was a portrait layout picture. I am saddened that a beautiful event such as a birth is captured and distributed like a work memo or report. “Check the communications database, the guidelines for corporate governance on the project have been updated. Oh and it says here that Phil is going to get married this weekend.”

Never before have I wished so fervently that Microsoft release a decent slideshow making application out of the items in ‘My Pictures’.