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Subject:RE: injecting a little whimsy into grey text From:"Chris Vickery" <cvickery -at- arenasolutions -dot- com> To:<john -at- garisons -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 7 Oct 2008 09:51:33 -0700
I often have to use fictional user names and product names while
documenting or testing our product. I even have a "John Smallberries"
user who gets a look in from time to time. For anything published, I try
to keep the references pretty obscure, but they are there.
Chris
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Subject: RE: injecting a little whimsy into grey text
I always liked to use my name as well as the names of others in the
group.
Not only was it a little bit subversive to do so, it also indicated that
you actually did work on the document if you used it for a portfolio
piece.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jessica Weissman
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 8:30 AM
>> To: Janice Gelb; techwr-l List
>> Subject: RE: injecting a little whimsy into grey text
>>
>> Along these lines, I always take my user name and place name
>> examples from the Betsy-Tacy series by Maud Hart Lovelace.
>> Harmless fun and one user who got it actually called me on
>> the phone to say how much she loved the books when she was growing
up.
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