Tom Johnson offers a great wiki page to list blogs about technical writing I found the Tech Writer Blog directory from a post by Katriel Reichman who recently wrote me an email message in response to my post about Wikis for technical documentation – one writer’s story. Katriel has a nice post about rules for […]
Read it sideways
The origin of the emoticon revealed I just read about this and I am loving the history behind it. Plus I’m impressed that someone has some amazing backup tapes. The emoticon entry on Wikipedia tells us that Scott Fahlman was the originator of the Emoticon. His post from 1982 was recovered in 2002 by a […]
Troubleshooting my Configuration Management installation
My new assignment had me searching for troubleshooting information and I hit the jackpot Have you ever solved a particularly nasty bug or fixed a problem while writing an email to a co-worker about the problem? Merlin Mann of 43folders has a great post describing how to Solve problems by writing a note to yourself. […]