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Hand to forehead moment

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This hand slap to the head once again brought to you by Technical Writers. Someone with the title Technical Author (cue eye roll) posted a one sentence question to a Help-authoring tool list. To quote: “Can anyone tell me what ‘structured authoring’ is?”. This was met by links to a Google-searched PDF. The person read […]

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Free online wine course from the CIA

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Get a “taste” of The Culinary Institute of America’s professional wine courses by taking this exciting course online—for free. We’ll give you a sample of our in-depth, on-site courses by taking you on a virtual journey through three of the world’s top grape varieties. You’ll learn about where they grow, how they’re made into wine, […]

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Ann Arbor Greenway – As Bad as Arctic National Wildlife refuge Drilling

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If I ever meet the author of AAiOR, I so need to buy him/her a beer/wine/stiff drink, mainly for making me laugh my ass off at the absurdity of this town. The term “overrated” barely scratches the surface of this pompous, over-marketed, elitist town. Too bad they have one of the best employers around (despite […]

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Censors on campus? Never!

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It’s like you could replace the University in this story with “University of Michigan” and no one would bat an eye. It hasn’t happened at U-M, I’m just sayin’… Last year, it was the fashion among campus conservative groups to hold anti-affirmative action bake sales: In such sales, prices are calibrated by the buyer’s race, […]

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Building on legacy systems

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I was playing around with MSN Desktop Search (which rocks, by the way), and came across an email from an old friend and co-worker, Tim (last name withheld for future Google-searching anonymity). I have no idea if this is true or not, but take it as a parable, not so much gospel. It makes me […]

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Mark Cuban gets it

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The countdown for the extinction of CDs is about to begin MP3 players are changing peoples listening habits. We dont carry folders filled with CDs anymore. We carry our library in our MP3 players. We dont listen to CDs. We listen to playlists that we adjust all the time. We dont burn CDs anymore, its […]

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RE: Columbia U. researchers seek "Music Lab" survey participants

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The Sociology department at Columbia Univ. is running an experiment in what makes a hit song. From BoingBoing: My colleagues and I in the Sociology department at Columbia University are doing an experiment about pop music which might be interesting to your readers. If they participate they will have a chance to discover and download […]

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