March 2004

documentation wierdness

March 31, 2004

in Links

Darren Barefoot’s Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness has been passed about the blogs before — but its got a bunch of new stuff now, and its way funny. I particularly like CrankCase Collar (how on EARTH did that get past editorial?) and for sheer WTF wierdness, Saiyan Wield Ways and Means. I am also amused [...]

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dinner rolls that go BOOM

March 30, 2004

in Links

Foods: Urgent Safety Notice Regarding Ice Box Rolls Recipe in April Issue on Page 154: Potential Fire and Safety Hazard. “Combining the water and shortening as described in the recipe may cause the mixture to ignite…” May cause the mixture to IGNITE? Did the original recipe include turpentine? Eeek!

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ouch ouch ouch

March 28, 2004

in Personal, Stories

I went for a bicycle ride this morning, my usual sunday morning 30-40 mile ride. Did the ride out by the reservoirs in San Jose, which is a pretty ride, not too much traffic, lots of hills to play on. I was on my way back and I stopped at a park to rest and [...]

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no more Mac Frame

March 23, 2004

in Tech

Adobe announced this morning that they are end-of-life’ing FrameMaker for the Mac. For those of you joining us outside the tech world, FrameMaker is a desktop publishing system. It’s especially good for really long book-type documents with lots of figures and tables and cross-references. Non-fictiony stuff. Its pretty much the standard tool for tech writers. [...]

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IMAP crazies

March 17, 2004

in Tech

Still setting things up on the new server. Eric believes strongly in ASCII mail readers (he also uses vi, poor dear) so it was up to me to re-set-up IMAP so that I could use a mail reader more recent than 1956. I had a lot of problems setting up the IMAP server…lots of authentication [...]

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