It’s Really a Simple Process…
Monday, March 24th, 2008From the men’s room at Workspace:
I like their frank procedural writing. And, toilet soakers, shouldn’t this have been thoroughly covered by grade two?
Technical Writing
Tearing Down and Reinforcing Gender Stereotypes, All in One Sentence
Monday, February 4th, 2008I was just re-reading a whitepaper I’m writing, and encountered this sentence:
If the lead developer on an open source project takes maternity leave, there aren’t necessarily resources to replace her.
I made a software enthusiast female–yay! And yet she’s threatening the project to go have babies–boo!
Fear not, this is just the first draft, but I had […]
There Are No Frickin’ Cross References in Apple’s Pages?
Saturday, December 8th, 2007We’re spending the weekend putting the final touches on our ebook, and planning our marketing push. I’m doing the final layout work on the book, and one of the last things on my list is adding cross references. You know, sentences like “for more information on Facebook, see page 46″. We’re using Pages 2.0, part […]
