Having a love-hate relationship with FrameMaker 10 right now. I love the program. I'm just hating building these templates. Please, chapters, *please* number correctly.

(If anyone out there can help me wrangle these templates, I'd really appreciate it. I *thought* I understood what was going on, but no such luck.)

-- We seem to have two weather modes right now: grey and rainy and in the 60s-70s (F) or sunny but crazy-hot (as defined by Massachusetts standards of anything above 85). Today is the transition day, sunny and not too crazy hot, heading into the mid-80s this afternoon. Tomorrow is supposed to be the beginning of more crazy-hot ( Read more... )

I knew I was in trouble when the PM running the 10:45 meeting I was in got to the QA report and said, "Jenny, I got your e-mail."

Because my brain then went, "I need to make you mine."

This afternoon, as I was heading to a meeting, I happened to strike up a conversation with a coworker. Through a series of bizarre conversational connections, I discovered that he knows lensman along with beckyfeld's friends E. and JP. beckyfeld's name sounded familiar to him, but he couldn't remember if they knew each other ( Read more... )

-- We're having what I've termed "snizzle": could be snow, could be drizzle ( Read more... )

Can anyone suggest real-time video capture software for the Mac that is either (a)free or (b) inexpensive? I have been asked to look into making some videos of how to use a specific software package, and something that can capture video of what I'm doing while I do it is what I'm looking for.

Any suggestions are very much appreciated.

Today is the US federal holiday observing New Year's Day, so I am off work. Last week, I had the day off in observance of the federal holiday for Christmas. And the week before, we had Friday 23 December off. This means we had three weeks in a row that were four-day weeks. This led someone in a meeting to propose that we always have four-day weeks ( Read more... )

So how many people at work would I confuse if I were to send out the renaming matrix of old-version-docs/new-version-docs under the subject line "New Doc Titles (the 'Once-a-Chicken-Now-a-Fish' Remix)"?

-- Not that I'm complaining, but what's up with the weather? It's been in the 60s all week.

-- Food that identifies itself in quotation marks concerns me. (I took the picture below in my office a couple of weeks ago.)


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-- I like being able to use technical skills I haven't used in a while. In the course of one project, I used my knowledge of UNIX, Emacs, and HTML ( Read more... )