Reading time: 2 mins Cherryleaf will soon be publishing the results of their recent survey of Documentation Managers* and, having skimmed through a preview, the main thing that leaps out at me is that the field of Technical Communications in the UK remains as diverse as ever in many respects, yet completely the same in others, and none of…
Reading time: < 1 min There is a dot on my screen. It’s not a small dot, it’s not a distinct dot so I guess it’s more of a blurry circle. But it’s there, in the middle of the screen, glowing at me. It’s slightly worrying. It’s most noticeable when I dim the screen all the way down. On the…
Reading time: 2 mins I’ve been Twittering for almost two years now and after being an early adopter who quickly turned naysayer, it’s now proving to be useful in a myriad of subtle and different ways. It alerts me to breaking news (I heard of the Hudson River crash before anything featured on the BBC News website), provides movie,…
Reading time: < 1 min Right. I’ve had it with you lot, it’s all take take take. Time to pay. £1 each will do. Leave it at the door as you leave. Thanks. I am, of course, joking. I know you lot are too tight to pay anything, don’t worry, I wouldn’t either. But the thing is that I DO…
Reading time: 3 mins One of the more popular posts on this blog is titled DITA is not the answer and, whilst things are certainly moving forward, it’s a little sad that it is still valid. A recent comment on that post suggested that it’s not just DITA that is lacking, it’s the working realities of single source that…
Reading time: 2 mins MP3 Tags “You spin me right round baby, right round, like a record baby” … Cue several of my younger readers to ask “what’s a record?” When I first started ripping CDs to MP3 I was very careful when tagging the information. I used Tag & Rename to make sure they all (ALL) had complete…