Re: Senior technical writer?

[Jim Barrow <vrfour -at- verizon -dot- net>]

>On 9/28/2006 at 4:49PM -0200 Gene Kim-Eng wrote:

>Once upon a time, in the dark ages when I was in engineering
>college

Gene, you're losing me here.  Please rewrite and add "In a galaxy far, far away".

>one of my professors told us that the single most
>important thing we would learn in the four years we were there
>was how to figure out the right book to look in for the answer to
>any question in our chosen field.  

Which can be updated to say:  "The single most important thing [is] how to figure out the right search engine to look in for the answer to any question[]." 

>Nothing I have experienced in my life has ever disproven that >statement in my mind.

I would have to agree.  I also like this one:  "A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer"


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