Monthly Archive for June, 2007

Stuck in traffic the other night, I was station surfing on the car radio trying to find a station that was airing something other than ads. I landed at 107.9 in time to hear John Tesh starting to discuss one of the night’s bits of what he calls “random intelligence.” The list of the moment: [...]

We’ve all had it happen to us at some point in our career. The idea that really lit a fire under us, that recharged our enthusiasm, that prompted us to spend our free time researching. The idea that was our chance to introduce something new that would save time, save money, help users, open doors [...]

Last time I talked about writing for technical types, continuing a discussion started by Michael Stelzner. Now let’s talk a bit about creating graphics for engineers, programmers, and scientists. 
Too often, graphics are created at the end of the project, close to the final deadline, when the text is nearly complete. The graphics that ultimately are [...]

A while back, Michael Stelzner started a discussion about writing for engineers and other technical types (in particular, writing white papers for them). It was a subject near and dear to my heart because this is one of my favorite audiences to write for. Why? Because when you write for them, you write in a No [...]

One of the great things about working with software programmers is learning about all the cool little utilities you might not otherwise have found at all (or, at least, not for a while).
Slightly fed up with having to take multiple steps to clean unwanted files off my PC — IE’s Internet Options to auto-delete temporary [...]