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My new business card

April 13, 2011 techcommdood

Sarah O’Keefe was kind enough to make me a new business card for my trip to Sacramento. Now Tony Chung offers a QR code: And why not add a theme song while we’re at it? Weezer – Troublemaker

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Does this mean we’re still swimming upstream?

January 26, 2011 Odds & Ends

This really is a fantastic (and sadly humorous) mash-up between what was said at the State of the Union Address and what viewers heard. All America Heard Last Night: ‘Salmon’ — Daily Intel

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Buzzword bingo time

January 25, 2011 Odds & Ends

Image via Wikipedia Top this: MacroCorp leverages industry leading widget deployment synergy to leverage dynamic next generation profit center ROI silos for macro KPI strategist deployments. And before you run screaming, yes, it’s fiction.

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Friday Twitter Fun

December 17, 2010 techcommdood

This exchange with Matthew Parente was too amusing not to share. Sadly, it’s likely all too familiar for many people. It all stemmed from a simple tweet I made, commenting on my first day on the job with no meetings. (Read from the bottom up.)

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How we should certify technical communicators

July 19, 2010 techcommdood

Image via Wikipedia The whole certification discussion right now has me thinking… Some of the arguments against it (and folks, it’s in concept flesh-out mode; give it time to grow some meat on its bones before you pick it clean) seem as logical as the process of determining whether someone is a witch. Sorry for [...]

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I bit the wax tadpole

June 29, 2010 techcommdood

Image by Joseph Wu Origami via Flickr Language is an amazing and beautiful yet dangerous thing, especially when crossing its barriers. Just as Coca-Cola learned about it’s Mandarin transliteration, I too recently discovered an interesting twist to my long-standing personal brand ‘techcommdood’. One of my LinkedIn connections wrote me with the following: I can see [...]

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Silly error of the week

February 26, 2010 techcommdood

I ran into this error just now and laughed out loud. I’ll let you study it and then learn how I ran into it. Are you ready for this? I pressed the left cursor button on my keyboard when at the insertion point of a table. Rather than going up to the previous line like [...]

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You know you’re a homebrewer…

October 8, 2009 beercommdood

IF you measure beer in gallons. IF you have more than 10 gallons of beer in your home right now. IF you don’t think 10 gallons of beer is a lot.

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The Freelance Writer Anthem

February 16, 2009 techcommdood

My friend George forwarded this one on. I have to say, it’s both funny and sadly realistic. Setting out on this freelance experience myself, if I can promise anything, I won’t be working in the buff.

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