Tales from FAR Manor

A future project—I plan to start on it in earnest early next year—is requiring a specific set of “reset reason codes.” The codes, and their ...

Image source: openclipart.org Last time I had to deal with an API, it was pulling a vendor’s documentation into our own system. Now, I have...

One thing about working at home, you don’t have so many distractions. But sometimes, the wife has to go do something on the farm while she a...

Image source: openclipart.org A couple weeks ago, I got an email from a product manager: Can you convert these API documents to our format? ...

One of the advantages of having a DITA-based workflow for technical writing is for translation. During the acquisition binge that ended with...

When I last talked about my remote workspace, I was adding a 40" monitor . So I got rhythm, I got music  I have good lighting, lots (bu...

I’ve been plugging along in my new work space for a couple of months, now. A couple weekends ago, while taking some time off, I did turn the...

Planet Georgia's sorry excuse for a governor partially lifted the shelter-in-place, starting today. That’s going to have consequences in...

Coronavirus (image credit: CDC, public domain) Our “online learning” was extended through Spring Break, the first full week of April her...

Coronavirus (image credit: CDC, public domain) Local schools are on “online learning” this week (and I’m sure that will be extended). I ...

Pull up a chair, young’uns. Today, I bring you a tale from a time when years started with a 1. It was a technologically backward time, befor...

In this adventure, we find that structure isn’t always structure. And sometimes, the structure jumps up and smacks you to get your attention...

In today’s installment of Life of a #techcomm Geek , we return to a subject that draws this geek like a moth to flame: file conversions. Haz...

Yesterday morning, I’d set up the co-worker with my MacBook Pro because his Dozebox wouldn’t open the files he needed to work on. I had two ...

Technically, this wasn't an “Escape from FAR Manor” — my employer has an office in Beaverton OR, and they wanted me to attend the Author...

Mason is cruising right along, development-wise… and slobbering like he’s cutting teeth already. He’s also started fighting sleep through th...

Work, as always, is work. I’ve been stumping to get a change into a new set of products that will make life easier on the people who have to...

The feed truck came late last night, so no cannibal chickens this go-around. Whew! Came home from work, no dinner as usual… even though Mrs...

If you hadn’t noticed yet, I’ve put a poll in the sidebar (just below my picture)… just curious to see what comes back. Lurkers, regulars, d...

While I was working at home today, Mrs. Fetched had a client in for some video work. Ironically enough, this client makes (wait for it) poul...