RE: injecting a little whimsy into grey text

Subject: RE: injecting a little whimsy into grey text
From: "Sean Diggins" <diggo -at- westnet -dot- com -dot- au>
To: "'techwr-l List'" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 11:26:50 +0800

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> Subject: Re: injecting a little whimsy into grey text
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> Milan Davidovic wrote:
> > Have you ever felt like the writer described in this post?
> >
> > http://www.mikepope.com/blog/DisplayBlog.aspx?permalink=2041
> >
>
> Humor in technical writing is a tricky subject.
>sources and info.
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I recently trialled various online Project Management solutions. One of the
demos (@task, IIRC) used the fictional company depicted in The Office,
complete with all staff. There was no reference anywhere to the series -
you'd only get the joke if you knew the series well. Good fun.

Sean

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References:
injecting a little whimsy into grey text: From: Milan Davidovic
Re: injecting a little whimsy into grey text: From: Janice Gelb

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