(I'm not here right now, please email a message) ([info]reddragdiva) wrote,
@ 2003-10-17 16:22:00
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Omit needless words.

I should write more. It's about viral payload density.

If I'm not exploding heads, why am I here again?


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[info]arkady
2003-10-17 08:22 am UTC (link)
Bad day? Join the club.

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[info]reddragdiva
2003-10-17 08:25 am UTC (link)
Insanely busy, very bored. The icon is for 'uncompromising' rather than 'pissed off'; the post itself was intended to be orthogonal to anything else happening today or this week.

You reading your email?

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[info]arkady
2003-10-17 08:32 am UTC (link)
Yes, but it's coming through very slowly because Mozilla is frustratingly spacking atm. I'm *this far* from setting up mail preferences in Opera instead. I've tried installing the latest stable version which has made no difference at all. And yes, I've been sending error reports in. At the moment I can only retrieve new email by shutting down anything remotely Mozilla-related then restarting Mozilla again.

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[info]reddragdiva
2003-10-17 08:34 am UTC (link)
I would back up your mail folder (Just In Case) before proceeding.

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[info]arkady
2003-10-17 08:36 am UTC (link)
What did you try to email me, anyway? I got the one about Rotas, and the reply to the news about Amice. Neither really seemed to need replying to... was there one I missed?

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[info]reddragdiva
2003-10-17 08:40 am UTC (link)
The *ping*!

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[info]arkady
2003-10-17 08:47 am UTC (link)
No, it was a "boing!". But I sent you the Amice email directly after receiving it, so I guess that was your answer. You texted me the *ping*.

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[info]reddragdiva
2003-10-17 08:55 am UTC (link)
Oh yes, that's right.

Well. Sometimes LJ is more efficient.

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[info]arkady
2003-10-17 09:04 am UTC (link)
Not always.

Anyway, for the time being I'm browsing using Opera, and I'm trying Thuderbird for email to see how it runs.

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[info]redcountess
2003-10-17 08:27 am UTC (link)
I see DP's quote is on the Brevity page :-)

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Dont' get me started on bad tech-writing...
[info]damien_wise
2003-10-17 09:20 am UTC (link)
Something I wrote in email to a friend this [Friday] afternoon while "just changing a few headings"...I hope you enjoy it, cos I sure as **** didn't!
Firstly, here's a bit of context:
* am supposed to writing a user manual for new software, but it's been presented to me as a little "bit of editing"
* deadline was "end of this week"
* because the egomaniacal programmer foolishly tried to write it himself (he can't let anyone come near his "baby"), it's unreadable in most places and factually wrong in some. If I'd been given the software and told "Go play with it. Document when wearing your Tech Writer hat; report bugs when wearing your QA/programmer hat," I'd have had it done by now. As it stands, it'll be a slap-dash thing and "finished" mid next week.
* Thorne is a friend who has drunk too much coffee, seen the insides of too many Sun machines, written more code than is healthy for a brain of its tender age, etc., and is consequently prone to going ito "halt-and-gibber" mode.


"I am Geek: hear me rant!"
Think I'm about to go postal here. Finally got my hands on a doc (after lunch, and I've been hassling for it since the start of the week) which I'm supposed ot beat into shape by the end of the day according to [name of PHB deleted]. Page 18 of 45 says:
END
REVERTS TO DOS NOW
In other words, it's been padded to look done, and the best-fit / closest manual they could find for this brand-new software was the previous version...which hasn't been updated for five or six years. ARRRGH!

I just explained things to [aforementioned manager]. I think he'd spotted me moaning in pain and Clutching-My-Head-Thorne-Style(TM). His response was "It's your call", which is his way of washing his hands of everything and walking away.

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"Coverage by a bright young NT admin."
[info]loosechanj
2003-10-17 09:50 am UTC (link)
I resemble that remark! OH wait, you said "bright"...

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[info]hirez
2003-10-17 12:11 pm UTC (link)
Far be it from me to mention that I write internal documentation in a style not a million miles away from the LJ one...

[About mailsystems]
"Corner-cases must be Hunted Down with Vigilance and the Owners Put To The Question, for only mail that has been Purified by the Holy Fire of MailScanner may know the Enlightenment of Delivery."

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[info]reddragdiva
2003-10-17 12:49 pm UTC (link)
I think that's an entirely suitable style.

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