WinOnCD Documentation User comment from CNet on WinOnCD 5 (US release, November 2002): “I definitely am not a techy and I had no problems. The reason is because I carefully read the manual. The manual is detailed. It took a number of hours to digest. There is a learning curve, but after some practice everything… Continue reading My Technical Writing
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How I Became an Italian Journalist
Soon after we moved to Italy in December, 1990, I read an article in Italia Publishers, a magazine about desktop publishing, in which the writer described his difficulties in finding a font for Hindi. Although he had never been to India, he had been studying the language in Milan for fun, and wanted to write… Continue reading How I Became an Italian Journalist
About the Newsletter
[My] newsletter began shortly after I resigned from Roxio, the software company, in July, 2001. At the time I was the editor of two email newsletters (one for Windows, one for Macintosh) with a combined list of 180,000 subscribers, intended to help people to get the most out of their software. I used to write… Continue reading About the Newsletter
The Infamous Miniskirt Photo: Give the Customers What They Want!
The photo above first appeared on the Adaptec website in April, 1998. Over the years some of my colleagues griped that having a picture like this on a corporate website was “unprofessional,” and I suppose it was. But (a) why does “corporate” have to mean “boring”? and (b) there’s a story behind it. It all… Continue reading The Infamous Miniskirt Photo: Give the Customers What They Want!
Website Content & Management
Some of my work on the Adaptec/Roxio sites can still be seen, courtesy of the Wayback Machine (not quite in their original form – graphics may be missing – but you can get the gist). I personally wrote most of the material for these sites, except for the marketing brochure-type pages (product datasheets, etc.). The… Continue reading Website Content & Management