Archive for Peeves
Probably the most common problem that I see in technical documentation is a failure to say upfront what the thing is that you’re documenting. I feel that in most cases, one of the first pages of the documentation set should have a sentence early on in the page that says something like “[Product name] is […]
Something that happens surprisingly often when I'm driving on the freeway: I'm in lane 2 (where lane 1 is the...
I keep seeing the phrase “young girl” used in all sorts of contexts. It almost always bugs me, because it...
As Chekhov once said, if in the first act you have Europa or Titan, then in the following one it...
Here's another piece of advice for writers. (Or anyone else, but writers are who I see doing this.) When you're...
Been a while since I've posted anything personal, hasn't it? Some assorted updates: First, I apologize for all those items...
I see this regularly in stories, but I also hear people say it regularly in real life, and I just...