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Posada oughta change his name to Kilroy. Is there nowhere that man
hasn't left his marque?? Truly awesome his reach is, at least as far as
it goes.
In fact, I think I might even start reading his posts again :-)
Dan Goldstein wrote:
> John Posada wrote the following in January 2003:
>
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> Some people that some people think there is a "Holy
> Grail" of technical writing. 99% of this process is:
> 1) Get some stuff on paper.
> 2) Get someone to read it and believe it is better
> than they could have done.
> 3) Apply some styles, fonts, and hyperlinks.
> 4) Get it out the door.
> 5) Get more stuff.
> 6) Repeat from step one until they don't need you
> anymore or you run out of stuff.
> Did I miss anything?
> **********************
>
> I suppose that "Dig" could be a precursor to step 1...
>
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