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Subject:Re: Writers face prison in Russia From:"John Fleming" <johnf -at- ecn -dot- ab -dot- ca> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 4 May 2001 09:47:30 -0600
> Subject: Re: Writers face prison in Russia
> From: Andrew Plato <intrepid_es -at- yahoo -dot- com>
> Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 20:26:40 -0700 (PDT)
> X-Message-Number: 78
> I'd also like to incarcerate all the writers who take screen prints
on
> their machine just after they changed the window colours to hot
pink,
> mustard yellow, and sky blue. Jeez, that really honks my duck.
I'll agree with you, Andrew, as long as I get to pick my own cell.
Once, I change my colour scheme to one of the other colour schemes
that comes packaged with word--I think the name of the scheme was
desert sand.
Several months later, I got a piece of software to document that I
loaded on that machine, and quite happily took *tons* of screen shots.
The first draft came back with a comment about all the colours in the
screen shots being wrong.
Since it was a fixed rate contract--I didn't get paid any extra for
going back to fix the mistake I'd unwittingly made.
--
John Fleming
Technical Writer
Edmonton, Alberta
email: johnf -at- ecn -dot- ab -dot- ca
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