Carl Tyler's Blog

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I was looking for new stuff on the Lotus website, and came across this page which contains a list of webcasts that people can watch. I must be doing ok as I've done two of them:

• Instant Technologies, Powerful Instant Messaging Solutions
• Lotus Sametime: Improving Your Communications with Custom Instant Messaging

I wonder if I should contact the Actors Guild about joining the union, and making sure I get residual checks sent to me when people watch them.

Many years ago I did two training videos for a a company called SoftVision, the videos were on none other than 1-2-3 R5 Part I & II, the video was actually their biggest seller that year. No royalties though as it was part of the deal for being the UK Desktop Product manager at the time. It lead to some interesting experiences such as being recognised by complete strangers at computer shows who swore blind that they had met you before, only to find out they had once spent 6 hours watching your tapes learning 1-2-3. I can't find much on SoftVision now, so I'm assuming they have closed, I hope it wasn't my video. I have to admit, I have only ever watched the first 5 minutes of the first tape where I make a rather subtle dirty joke which they left in, and then I can't bear to watch myself anymore, seeing my self in photos or videos really does make me cringe. I swear the camera adds about 10 stone (140 pounds).