After our last set of exams, a bunch of us collected at the pub to celebrate the end of a bit of a grind of a term. Midway through a glass of fairly ordinary red, a classmate (let’s call him Dave) was talking to me about some of the marketing… Read More
I’m a bit of a documentation nerd. Writing technical documentation is a boring, but often necessary, job that other people hate doing. I’m good at it. I also care about it, for some unfathomable reason. This combination means that I’m usually the guy who ends up doing it. Now I… Read More
If you’ve ever dabbled in learning about theoretical physics, as I have, you will enjoy an excellent book by Brian Greene called The Fabric of the Cosmos. It’s the first book that has explained how time and space are related by Einstein’s theory of general relativity in such a way… Read More
There was an image in the paper this weekend that was a parody of a well known painting. Actually, there were two: one was a parody of Edvard Munch’s The Scream, where they’d added a clown hat and clown makeup. I thought it fitting, since clowns are evil. I couldn’t… Read More
I write a lot of documentation as part of my day job. Often, this means I have to use Microsoft Word, because that’s what every business has and expects their doco to be in Word .doc format. This sucks for many reasons that they don’t care about. People really suck… Read More
So I’m just about finished with a weekend back at home after a week of commuting to Brisbane for work, and about to head back up there again tomorrow morning at dark-o’clock-am. I was without real network access for most of this past week because a) clients often have draconian… Read More
I’ve just updated the wiki for DocGen, my design automation system. There’s not much content there, but there’s now some, so enjoy. DocGen was originally created after I finished a gig for a particular client. Once again, I’d set up some documentation templates in MSWord with some consistent styles, layout,… Read More
Kudos out to the folks at MetaFilter for this thread that I wrote about a while back. I purchased several books mentioned in the thread, including: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, by Edward R. Tufte Crossing the Chasm, by Geoffrey A. Moore Influence: Science and Practice, by Robert B.… Read More
Today I went into McGills Bookstore here in Melbourne and managed to find a book I’ve been looking for as a result of this thread over at MetaFilter. The book is The Non-Designer’s Design Book by Robin Williams (no, not that Robin Williams). It is eleven different flavours of awesome.… Read More
I have a fairly technical job, but most of my time is spent writing, and reading, documents. Much of it is email, but the largest part of my work output is more formal documentation: design documents, HOWTO guides, network diagrams. I currently work with a team of a dozen or… Read More
