Jay Maechtlen – technical writing, lasers, and stuff | technical communicators and communications

Video card reverts to analog output if digital monitor not detected at startup.

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Mar/10

30

Vintage Computing Resource

Manuals and more for Commodore. http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/

Mar/10

30

Smart electric meters

An interesting story about these “smart meters” that SoCalEd has been forcing on us. http://billmullins.wordpress.com/2009/06/17/smart-meters-how-dumb-are-they/

Mar/10

15

Re-using Content and Ideas

Over at Copyblogger, there’s an article about content re-use. It uses Avatar as an example: Lots of 3-D movies have been done, both recently and long ago. Lots of similar stories have been done, ditto. And yes, It was Fern Gully. And no, Fern Gully wasn’t a pioneer either. But, Avatar was a well-told story [...]

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summary of Dr. Gilbert’s testimony about Toyota runaway problem

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Mar/10

13

Cars and Adventures

Some of my cars and related adventures over the years.

Mar/10

4

Learning RoboHelp

Learning RoboHelp by taking a small existing doc and converting it to a Help project.

Jan/10

16

Lessons Re-Learned

Backing up prior to making config changes can save much anguish.

Jan/10

12

comments- spam or not?

spam, or not? Give us a decent username and we’re less likely to dump your comment by mistake.

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Internal solid state regulators can’t be fixed. But they can be ignored.

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