Wednesday, May 30, 2007

LOL indeed OK, I'm not much for fad-of-the-day, the lolcats have me hooked. My current favorite is here; I believe it appeared on BoingBoing a few days ago. 9:16:36 PM    Questions? Comments? Flames? []

8 meters?!!? Next time I feel that product management is being a bit unreasonable about their demands for doc, I'll remember this one that Laura Lemay found: very, very well documented. . . here's a great story from the former The Daily WTF.com, now known (sadly) as WorseThanFailure.com, called Very, Very Well Documented. . . [OE]You see gentlemen,[base '] the general continued, [OE]for such expensive program, we require at least eight meters of documentation.[base '] He stretched his arms as far as he could to illustrate. Clearly, he was not joking. (read the rest of the story). . . [lauralemay :: blog] I heard another story once about a technical writer preparing for a job interview who got wind that the hiring manager tended to measure document quality by the pound: more is better. So the interviewee showed up with the biggest baddest books in her portfolio, in a wheelbarrow. She got the job. 7:23:09 PM    Questions? Comments? Flames? []

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