I am designing a speech timer for use in toastmasters. I have only attended a handful of meetings so I thought it would be an interesting experiment to blog about the design and solicit comments.

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I will admit it right up front. I DON’T watch “Dancing with the Stars”. However if you are a big fan of the program please don’t be offended. I don’t really watch TV at all. So why am I talking about the Woz and dancing if I don’t even watch the program? Well, it’s because Steve Wozniak and dancing has changed my life!

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There it was, the dreaded “Hello my name is,” tag. I reluctantly filled in my name knowing what was in store. If you are in a room with say two hundred attendees you can avoid it but in a classroom this small I new it was coming.

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It’s your call, what are you going to do. C’mon we need an answer. Your answer, Um maybe we should have installed a scoreboard.

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My manager called me in and gave me the good news. In two days I would be flying first class to Washington DC, staying in my own suite in a five star hotel, and it was all paid for. Had I just won a vacation for my hard work. Not quite.

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