After my nasty lesson with Google Accelerator you think I would have given up on my obsession with speeding up my Internet connection. Unfortunately, there’s nothing like the tantalizing lure of speed and power to blind even the most cautious of web surfers, especially if your Internet connection is agonizingly sluggish. It’s not surprising then, […]
Entries from March 2007
Greed for speed
March 23rd, 2007 · Comments Off
Tags: technology
Does tech writing bore you?
March 17th, 2007 · 1 Comment
A while ago Tom Johnson asked this question in one of his posts: “Is technical writing boring?”. He got such a plethora of responses on both sides of the issue that he and Heidi decided to explore the issue in a recent Tech Writer Voices podcast by the same name. It was so interesting I […]
Tags: technical writing
Writer’s challenge #1
March 17th, 2007 · Comments Off
As promised in my last post, here is a little segment I’m going to call…(insert drum-roll here)…THE WRITER’S CHALLENGE! Will you muster your courage and face the cunning challenge I’ve set before you? Here it is: I am holding an object in my hand. Guess what the object is by reading it’s patent description. Let […]
Tags: technical writing · technology · the writing challenge · writing
It’s your English – fight for it!
March 11th, 2007 · Comments Off
There is nothing more sickening than a piece of writing bloated and weighed down by heavy jargon and confusing language. Call it what you will – jargoneze, legalize, bureaucrateze, or just plain gobbledygook. If you’re spreading this kind of rot, you’re a language killer and should be tried and condemned by your peers as such.
Tags: documentation · technical writing · writing
Over 120000 free technical writing articles
March 8th, 2007 · Comments Off
Here is a valuable resource that no technical writer, or technical-writing student, can do without: The EServer TC Library, a free library of articles on all manner of relevant subjects: I’ll also put this up on my resources page. A lot of these articles are derived from STC conferences and are available in PDF format.
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