Posts Tagged "Notes"

A Life of Its Own: An Essay About an Article That Was Never Published

Last year I worked on a news article that showcased certain technologies at my work. The news article was an assignment, the kickoff of a series of articles. I worked especially hard on it, as it was the first one to introduce the series. I came up with a sensible structure, gathered interesting facts and information, (Read more...)

The Importance of a Personal Face — On Halloween

In taking my kids out trick or treating last night, I paraded them past many lavishly decorated homes with “cute spooky” arrangements, outdoor music, and other scary yard setups. One guy’s display definitely outperformed everyone else’s on the block. It looked like he dropped $500 on Halloween gear and other decorations — lights flashed with (Read more...)

Adding Captions to Youtube Videos

In Buying Power of Persons with Disabilities, Karl Grove carefully analyzes statistics about the number of users who need your site to be accessible. Despite noting that some of the statistics could be overinflated, he still advocates for accessibility: In some cases, persons with disabilities which require an accessible site can amount to 7-10% of (Read more...)

How I Took Back My E-mail Inbox

For the past couple of years, my gmail inbox has been flooded with so much email that unless I respond to incoming email within a day, it gets buried with other incoming email. I’m guessing that many others have a similar problem. Gmail has come out with various solutions — priority inboxes, stars with various (Read more...)

“One Day I’m Going to Figure Out the Solution to Help…”

He mentioned this during one of our lazy afternoon meetings, which dragged on much longer than the scheduled time. The central problem of writing help, my colleague Derek said, is how you make it so Joe user can find the answer to his one question among 50,000 other answers in the help. Every user seems (Read more...)

Will We Still Know Us, Tomorrow?

This is a guest post by Michael Hobren. Michael is a technical and “marcom” contract writer, as well as a fictional novelist. He resides with his family in the Tampa, Florida area. As a technical writer, I don’t think my late father ever quite understood what I do for a living. I would try to (Read more...)