Humor in Technical Documents

[Kristen Beer <kris -dot- beer -at- ARKONA -dot- COM>]

Although my title may connote more, I am really the ONLY writer/trainer
at a small startup software company. As such, one of my many responsibilities
is to implement some type of corporate standards for all written materials.
This translates not only into developing and/or refining templates, but
also into designing a style guide for nonwriters.  Because nonwriters
will probably not pour over a style guide just for fun, I'd like to make
it fun (at least as fun as guidelines for grammar, punctuation, formatting,
etc. CAN be). I'm thinking along the lines of Robin Cook's The Nondesigners
Design Book, which I consider a piece of work.