Thanks to Zhan, who is an awesome troubleshooter, for letting me know it was better to use CBR (constant bit rate) rather than VBR (variable bit rate) to compress the file. That worked fine. And the new file size is about 20% of the original. After another...

So a few TAP participants have asked me if the recordings of the TAP Kickoff training are available anywhere. Sadly, the answer has been 'no' because we haven't had time to compress and edit the recordings. Right now the files are *huge* and have a lot...

Somehow in the past week, my email Inbox climbed to an astonishing 134 messages. Having attended the "Managing Action" training course at Microsoft a few years ago, I am embarassed to admit this. That productivity course advocated having a clean Inbox...