[mils]

Thanks for this black_mamba. It is comforting to read about other people struggling with this. Practice and preparation is something that I struggle with, because to do those things makes you think about it...

I gave a disasterous presentation in June, I can laugh about it now, but I wasn't laughing then! I used to think that I should write on the blackboard, because I could concentrate on that rather than the audience and it would slow me down. That approach went horribly wrong in June, I realise now that giving myself more to do, is just giving myself more to mess up.

In a couple of weeks I've got another one to do, and there will be no writing, just slides. I've noticed that when people just use slides, the audience don't really look at the speaker, they just look at the slides. And you can almost tell me people not to look at you - point at the slides, look at this, look at that. It is more controlled...