It's not that I hate my job, because I don't. At least I like the people I work with and I do get to write for a living. I just wish the subject matter I write wasn't... fucking boring ( Read more... )

As I sit and continue to try and hammer out a new book to submit, I realize I have nothing but respect for pre-internet authors. Not that I didn't always admire them (or at least some more than others), but as I turn to the internet for the umpteenth time in order to fact-check some tiny detail or to correct my spelling on a word that Word doesn't ( Read more... )

One of our applications that I write about deals with things called 'job boxes'. Basically, you specify a job to be run in batch (using our other, various applications), and off this application goes and does it for you. Needless to say, the words 'job box' are very ubiquitous in the manual ( Read more... )

This may sound funny coming from me, but you know what I hate? Having my grammar or spelling corrected. Actually, let me be more specific: I hate having my grammar or spelling corrected on my blog ( Read more... )

I just had one of those truly great weekends were everything just seemed absolutley perfect. Of course, it did help that my weekend started on Thursday as I had Friday off. So it started off with Mike and I taking Jet to daycare, then we returned home and went back to bed. Heaven ( Read more... )

After last week's rather disappointing, Kate-centric episode, I just gotta say, now THAT was an episode of Lost last night!! Pretty, pretty Boone even appeared in a flashback! Yay! Although, he did look terribly umm, short. He didn't look much taller than Shannon. Ah well. Not everyone can be the 6'3 that my beloved is ( Read more... )

Came across this lovely new word in IBM's DITA documentation: pluggability ( Read more... )

So, here I am, mainly because I've been assured by a variety of people (including my own technophobe father) that this really is a good way to get yourself into the habit of writing everyday. I think I'll view this with my usual healthy dose of skepticism and decide in a month or so if I agree with that ( Read more... )