Safety moment: Watch out for those office plants!

Quotable quote

Recently tweeted by @ellispratt and others:

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

Tech Support flow chart

Here’s one from the xkcd website for all of you who support various family members and friends for no other reason than you know a *little* more about computers and technology than they do (again, documentation and Help doesn’t even crack a mention…)

[Links last checked August 2009]

Think you know your font names?

Do you think you’re pretty up to date with the various font names? Or perhaps you’re more a cheese person and think you know their names well?

Well, here’s an opportunity to test yourself! The Cheese or Font website (http://cheeseorfont.mogrify.org/) lets you test yourself by displaying various names and you click on whether you think it’s the name for a cheese or a font.

[Link last checked September 2009; thanks to Stuart B for alerting me to this fun website]

Beware the ‘more work for you’ line

From the pen/stylus of Brad Colbow:

Hilarious review of a vehicle user manual

This review of a Dodge Caravan’s user manual is a must read for anyone who has shaken their head while trying to decipher such a document, or who, like me, is a technical writer and thus in the business of writing them. You’ll learn some new words too!

Read the review here: http://netropolis.in/silklist/msg03835.html

[Links last checked September 2009; thanks to Tom Johnson at I'd Rather Be Writing for pointing me to this great review]

Before the coffee kicks in: 404 error

From the pen/stylus of Brad Colbow:

Cute 404 error!

[Thanks to Jason Jordan at PC Guru for this -- it was included in the PC Guru Weekly Newsletter for 17 September 2009]

The clock is running

From the pen/stylus of Brad Colbow:

Made me pause…

I was checking some academic references on the internet the other day and clicked a link for a citation. The heading was what made me pause… It’s correct, but it shook me a bit as the papers referenced are only 10 years old.

The website is here: http://www.zoology.unimelb.edu.au/keolab/keo_old.htm

[Links last checked August 2009]