In December 2002, Steven Brier of Practical Growth mailed me to ask for some live support for the distribution of a PowerPoint media creation. The problem was delivery. Steven wanted to create CDs of this presentation that he could give away or sell. The PowerPoint Viewer available at that time was woefully inadequate to cope up with this challenge. Both Steven and I tried different approaches——using DHTML export, Flash output and even replicating the whole presentation in other multimedia programs. The bottom line was that none of them worked——at least none of them captured the original concept anywhere close.

