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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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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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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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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