Archive for November, 2006:

So you want to be a technical writer?

I recently sat on a panel of professionals with English and communications degrees at one of Augusta State University’s Career Spotlight forums. The panel was comprised of a magazine editor, a newspaper reporter turned layout designer, a corporate trainer, and me representing technical writing.
The students who attended our session were most interested in what they [...]

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Automating AuthorIT publishing and distribution

Since we adopted AuthorIT as our HAT a few months back, everyone has been impressed with how it has changed our department’s workflow. The only real holdouts have been the installs developers, who think that anything that isn’t stored in Microsoft Visual SourceSafe is completely devoid of value.
So, to keep from having to deal [...]

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Digital Pinhole Photography

The other night, the lovely Mrs. Sansbury and I modified the lens cover of our Canon Digital Rebel XT to convert the camera into a pinhole camera.
The process was pretty simple–I just drilled a hole in the exact center of the lens cover. I used a small bit, but in retrospect, I could have drilled [...]

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