Puppy cam

I found this on the KASE 101 web site. I don't know who the camera belongs to, but I have enjoyed watching it.

The puppy cam was featured in this MSNBC
video and story on November 21, 2008.

It only takes one click

Next time someone tells me that you can download something with just one click, I'm going to ask them to define what the word "one" means to them.

To me, it means one, as in only one, the one and only, less than two, greater than zero, etc.

What I have learned, though, is that when "one click" is prefaced by "it only takes," there is trouble ahead. That one click is actually just the first one in a long series of one clicks. One click after another. One by one. One more time.

In addition to learning that one click is one of many clicks, I have learned that my one clicks put me in a continuous loop. Depending on how tired I am and how many times I have made the loop, I will do one of three things:
a. Keep trying until I find a way out.
b. Close the web site and try later.
c. Close the web site and never try it again.

But, since one can mean whatever you want it to mean, instead of doing just one of those things, I sometimes choose to do them all!
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Content Management

Changing careers can be scary, rewarding, exciting, challenging, and interesting all at the same time. I have felt each of those emotions as I have made my own transition from architect to technical communicator.

Much of the information for technical writers is for those in the software development field. Fortunately for me, my first major contract has been for a software development company. I say fortunately, because tonight I went to a workshop about content management systems. It was really geared more for people who develop or maintain web sites, which is not my main thing. I recognized many of the terms used, mainly because I have overheard the software developers use those terms. I would say I understood about 20% of what was covered.

The main thing I got out of it was a review of and comparison between some of the open-source software available. Before you select one, you need to decide what you want to use it for. Some ar good for sharing documents, and some are not. Take into consideration the learning curve...YOUR learning curve. This very blog is an open-source product. The learning curve was short, but the creativity is limited. It's basically one long page.

At the bottom (of this one long, long page), I have added a link list to the open-source software that was presented tonight.
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Make Me Laugh

Seen in a newpaper headline: instead of "Pulitzer Prize" it was written "Pulit Surprise"

I saw a closed caption funny interpretation. The person speaking said the phrase "non sequitur" but the closed-caption person typed it as "non second which tour"