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Thursday, June 15, 2006 4:22 PM

Why Technical Writing Sucks

Jesper has a great new article on why no technology or software solution is going to dig us completely out of our security problems. Read it for the great writing, authentic voice and cogent thoughts. If you are a person involved in what we call at
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Wednesday, June 07, 2006 9:32 AM

Roll Your Own System Center Virtual Machine Manager Beta FAQ

I've just become the proud owner of the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 Beta FAQ. What is Virtual Machine Manager? Why blog about the FAQ? It is a bootstrapping problem. I need to develop and publish a Frequently Asked Questions file for
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Tuesday, May 23, 2006 9:53 AM

The Good Samaritan Would Blog

I am reading a new book written by some friends of mine: Anxious to Please: 7 Revolutionary Practices for the Chronically Nice. One of the things they talk about is taking the time to examine your core beliefs. This is an essential pre-req to
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Wednesday, February 08, 2006 8:18 PM

Seven Rules for Making a (Science) Movie, or techie blog

Cool NOVA site on "the Ghost Particle". Check out the producer's 7 rules for making a good science movie. Good advice for blogging I think, especially tech blogging. Pretty much just replace "movie" in your head with "blogging" as you read.  
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Friday, August 19, 2005 9:25 PM

Wax Tadpoles

It is said that when CocaCola entered the mainland Chinese market, some of the first literal translations of the brandname into Mandarin came out "bite the wax tadpole". Of course, Coke marketing got a grip on the situation pretty quickly. Blogs.technet.com
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Thursday, June 02, 2005 5:55 PM

On "learning nature"

We crave stories. It is one of the oldest ways we know how to learn. Wanting to learn, that's a different story... I think this post says it well: I'll never forget learning to ride a bike. My older brother's bike, with its long yellow banana seat
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Monday, May 02, 2005 10:44 AM

Berate IT

<ironic mode on> Steffen has a blog in German on TechNet. I don't speak German, and online translators I have found are woefully inadequate for technical writing. Interesting tho that his title is "Technologieberater".Online dictionary defs for
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Friday, April 01, 2005 10:06 AM

Machine Translation Market Prediction

In the early, post-World War II days of computing, scientists dreamed of creating software so intelligent it could accurately translate one language into another. If computers could crack enemy codes, the thinking went, then why not foreign languages?
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