RE: injecting a little whimsy into grey text

Subject: RE: injecting a little whimsy into grey text
From: "Sean Diggins" <diggo -at- westnet -dot- com -dot- au>
To: "'Michael West'" <mbwest -at- bigpond -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 15:37:18 +0800

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> [mailto:techwr-l-bounces+diggo=westnet -dot- com -dot- au -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com] On
> Behalf Of Michael West
>
> Many technical writers I have known were culturally ignorant or
> insensitive.
> They might know a lot about a TV show or a fantasy novel, but they know
> little about the real world.
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Ditto developers, methinks.
I still have users asking why they find "I Can Haz Cheezburger?" as the
default content of a rarely used field within our expensive proprietary
software. I've left it there partly because I'm no less asinine than the dev
who easter egg'd it for someone to eventually find...

Sean

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