Posted in Living, Writing on Mar 31st, 2007 4 Comments »
I was having lunch today with a friend of mine who told me this story.
She had a copy of The Orchid Hunter with her at a doctor’s appointment, and the intern asked her what she was reading. She told him she hadn’t started reading the book yet so she didn’t know exactly what it was […]
Posted in Writing on Mar 29th, 2007 3 Comments »
This came up on my personalized Google page today. Talk about a two-by-four between the eyes!
You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
— Jack London
Just do it, huh?
Posted in Living on Mar 29th, 2007 No Comments »
The terns are back!
Our coastal area is summer home to two types of terns: the Least Tern and the King Tern. These wonderful fishing birds are the most patient birds on the planet. They hover about twenty feet above the water looking for fry in the waters below, then dart, submerge completely, and explode up […]
Posted in Tech Writing on Mar 27th, 2007 2 Comments »
Saw this on another site and just had to borrow it:
Communication with an engineer is only slightly more difficult than communication with the dead. –Lorren ‘Rus’ Stiles, Sr.
Hilarious! (My apologies to the engineers out there. But I have to say that my first experience with an engineer was when she handed me a lovely 4-page […]
Posted in Tech Writing on Mar 26th, 2007 Comments Off
I just added a WebHelp-specific tip to the ole blog. It took me a while to sort out what went where, even with the helpful documentation provided by demi-god Peter Grainge.
So I wrote up my own instructions for calling WebHelp from a launch page. Tech writers, enjoy.
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