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The top 16 things likely to be overheard if you had Klingon technical writers working on your documentation team:

1. Klingons do not sit in meetings, we take what we want and kill anyone who opposes us!
2. Certification?! Having your hot blood dripping from my glistening blade is all the certification I need!
3. I will return to the homeworld and my documentation will arise triumphant in the STC Documentation Gauntlet, leaving all others drowning in their own dangling modifiers. It will be glorious!!

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Documentia Inc. has the full list. [from Idiotprogrammer as reported by The Creative Tech Writer].

Wednesday morning in Prof. David Farber’s Interesting People e-mail list, I found reference to this story in the Business Standard:

Bush’s party to raise funds via Noida, Gurgaon
Bipin Chandran in New Delhi
Business Standard, January 31, 2003

The US Republican Party now has a band of young and enthusiastic fund-raisers in Noida and Gurgaon [India].

HCL eServe, the business process outsourcing arm of the Shiv Nadar-promoted HCL Technologies, has bagged a project to undertake a fund-raising campaign for the US Republican Party over the telephone.

This is the first time such a project has been handed out to a company outside the US. The market research and public relations companies engaged by the party usually undertake such projects.

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Chris Pirillo has begun a Blogger’s Dictionary: Some of my favorites are:

SCOBOL - programming language that only works with Microsoft operating systems.

Weinburger - a link sandwich.

Winerd - power user who has the ability to piss off the entire Internet in three sentences or less.

He’s a bit off on SCOBOL — that was Screen COBOL, an interpreted language Tandem customers used to create interactive screens on dumb terminals as early as the late 70’s.

It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one’s thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.

           Isabel Colegate

Lisa Young, of the New York Metro chapter of STC has an article in the March/April issue of MetroVoice entitled Blogs on the Side. She has her own blog. [Thanks to Jenny Berger of The Creative Writer — another STC blogger.]

According to an article in the August 17, 2003 Los Angeles Times, high tech is affecting their bottom line, big time. No matter what the quality of the movie, its producers would hype the heck out of it and aim to get a big opening weekend, before word of mouth got around about its quality. Now, IM and SMS are interfering with their plans:
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According to this Reuters story:

A new computer worm is spreading worldwide through a security hole in Windows — also used by last week’s Blaster worm — but then patching the hole instead of crashing the system like Blaster does, security experts said on Monday.

The new worm, dubbed “Welchia” or “Nachi,” is similar to Blaster, but it purports to patch the hole Blaster exploited to enter into computers in the first place and tries to clean up after Blaster if the computer is infected with it.

The Washington Post also has an article on the anti-worm.

Eric Meyer is a CSS guru and former standards evangelist for Netscape. He ran this the other day, in a posting entitled “Pray Tell”, and I wanted to just give you the link, but when I tried using the link, it was pretty slow — you have to load a significant number of posts before this one displays, so I’m just pasting the significant part here.

I don’t know how your day has been, but I learned something about myself this morning.

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Silicon Valley Chapter (STC) member Helen Hegelheimer reports her experience with networking in the job hunt:

I went on a job interview about three weeks ago. Found the job through a recruiter recommended by my out-of-work neighbor (seems my neighborhood has been hit hard by this market). My neighbor is a buyer… nonetheless he recommended his recruiter to me… Frankly, he nagged me to send the recruiter my resume.

Much to my surprise, the recruiter “hooked me up” within 4 days! Surprise #1

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Silicon Valley Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication has a Networking SIG to help folks connect with others. It describes itself a providing “job hunting strategies, support, and networking opportunities for STC members seeking employment in the Silicon Valley.”

It meets in a local restaurant on the first Thursday of the month, and each meeting features a speaker. Members are encouraged to bring copies of their resume and business cards. It has rapidly become the largest SIG in the SVC. It also features a moderated Yahoo Group founded in August 2002. This SIG was a large part of SVC receiving a Pacesetter award in 2003. Contacts can be found on the web page.