This fall, what will probably be one of the top five books on presentation design and technique you’d want in your bookshelf will be published.

Garr Reynolds (check out his website — gold waiting to be dug there!), one of my absolute favourite bloggers, is in the middle of writing the book, which will help us all make better presentations and hopefully free ourselves from the inside-the-box-thinking that far too often occurs when presentations are conceived.

I’ll try to keep you posted on when the book is out. If you have any good references for books on presentation design, give a shout.

Tonight is the last night we have on Manhattan. Yesterday late afternoon there were thunderstorms over the city, which cleared the sky and made it look bright and blue this morning, which made the city even more beautiful than it normally is. It also lowered the temperature a couple of degrees, which made it a lot easier to walk outside.

We’re just about to head out to dinner, but I just wanted to post a quick picture before that. The star photographer behind the camera is Christoffer.

The photo taken from inside the atrium of a shopping centre at Columbus Circle, which is at the Southwest corner of Central Park (map), overlooking the circle itself, a statue of Christopher Columbus, and Central Park South (the street in the picture).

Christoffer and I are now back in New York City after our small road trip to upstate New York, Bear Mountain, West Point, Hartford, Providence, Boston and the Hamptons. We drove a nice Ford Mustang convertible, which Christoffer makes look good in the photograph below.

It is so incredibly warm here, it is hard to believe, but I guess that’s what you get from visiting the city in July.

I have made a Google album with some of the photos from the trip, that we’ve shot so far; you can find it here. I have also bought a camcorder, so once I return to Denmark and upload the movies to my Mac you’ll get some of those also.

On Sunday, Christoffer and I started our vacation with a trip to the U.S. Right now I am sitting in our apartment with the most magnificent view over Manhattan. We are reliving old times — big time.

On our way here, we had a stopover on Iceland. We decided to extend the stay so we had the time to make it to the Blue Lagoon about 20 minutes from the airport.

The water has a special pale blue colour, perhaps due to sulfur (I’ll try to look into that later), and is so warm you can’t believe it.

We arrived in New York City on Sunday evening. I’ll get back to you later with more pictures.