Yesterday, in spite of my infatuation with my new Tungsten, I got mostly caught up after being out of the office for 2 weeks -- I had prepared pretty well, so there wasn't much that needed to be done. Today, I finally got a letter sent out to potential presenters to get information for the ProgramoPorLandaKongreso. Subsequently, I've spent an hour or so working on updating software in the BCRC: there were 22 packages in 
fink that needed to be updated and I installed ghostscript so that gimp would be able to open pdf files.
I've continued to work with my new Tungsten. I've discovered another limitation: the included web-browser can't display PNGs. For most people it wouldn't matter -- probably only 1% of network graphics are PNGs. For me, it matters: probably 20% of the graphics on websites I care about are PNGs. But its an annoyance, more than anything else.
I tried out the Margi presenter today. It works OK -- the images of slides are dithered, so gradients need to be avoided. If I want to use it seriously, I should aim to develop presentations that use flat colors. The Presenter also comes with video mirroring software, to display the Tungsten's screen. I succeeded in crashing it when I tried to open the Photo application. So far, everything else has worked OK.
I remember clearly the first time I had access to a data projector. At Western, I set up a computer lab for teaching biology which included a Polaroid Projection Panel. It wasn't very bright, but it was extraordinarily useful for demostrating applications. The most powerful use I found for it, though, was for small-group brainstorming: I could project the outlining tool from Word 5.0 and have everyone in the group throw out ideas. I could grab bits and pieces and quickly organize them into an outline and print it for everyone. It was incredible! Whenever I had to do a group project, I would try to get my team-mates to meet me in the lab so we could coordinate our efforts.