Monday, May 16, 2022
Thursday, May 12, 2022
Back to the [Metallica Concerts] Future?
This justifies why I should be the editor of Metallica.com - I would never allow a link to purchase tickets to a show on May 10th to be on the website on May 12. The show in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, is today.
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
Know Your Audience
Peet1 asked a question and Derrick Qian | Microsoft Community Support Specialist tried to answer the question. Derrick Qian | Microsoft Community Support Specialist, but it didn't go especially well as you can read here https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/musicandvideo/forum/all/file-explorer/5f4ee4ab-5336-4480-82e8-924dc6bb98e5 - File Explorer. What Peet1 wrote exemplifies the question that has no answer in the technical writing community: How do you write content that authentically helps your audience?
Hi Derrick. Thanks for your reply and thank you VERY much for the effort you made to try and help me. It takes time and patience to provide the information you have provided. Thank You. What advanced technical people like you do not understand, is that there are millions of people, like me, who do not have a clue what you are talking about. For example:
"1. Manual：
First create a Desktop.ini file in the folder that needs to be changed, for example:
[.ShellClassInfo]
ConfirmFileOp=0
InfoTip=my folder
IconIndex=0
IconFile=MyFolder.ico
explain:
parameter ConfirmFileOp s........................"
No-one out there, unless they are computer technically trained, knows what this means. Create Desktop.ini: What programme is used to do this? Notepad perhaps? It doesn't say, so I don't know. Does "MyFolder" refer to the folder I'm in? I have too many questions.
Derrick's answer was helpful to me but not to Peet1. How does Derrick write content that serves BOTH Peet1 and me in a technical support forum?
My manager and I discussed something similar to this yesterday. We were talking about how the SME who writes the disaster recovery documentation for their system is writing for themselves and how there is really no way to standardize whether their content is useful to someone else until the following (which I am fleshing out after contemplating the discussion overnight):
- There is a disaster and System ABBA has to be restored
- The SME for System ABBA is unavailable
- The SME for System ASIA is available and has technical expertise and knowledge but not for System ABBA. However, given the circumstances, the SME for System ASIA is going to attempt to use the documentation that the SME for System ABBA wrote.
- If the SME for System ASIA uses the documentation that the SME for System ABBA wrote and the SME for System ASIA is able to restore System ABBA,
- then documentation = useful.
- Else, the SME for System ASIA uses the documentation that the SME for System ABBA wrote and the SME for System ASIA is unable to restore System ABBA, the documentation is not useful.
Monday, May 9, 2022
Friday, May 6, 2022
When is the LRB Playing?
I like the Little River Band. I remember singing "Lonesome Loser" in elementary school. When I saw this ad for seeing the band in concert, I thought, "Well, that'd be an interesting show." Then I realized that the actual concert date is not displayed ANYWHERE on the ad and I did not crop the ad at all. I consider the omission of the concert date to be a mistake by the writer on staff in the Riverside Casino Marketing Department.
Thursday, May 5, 2022
The Handbrake - Benny Greb Drum Solo
From https://www.timbuellmusic.com/benny-greb-handbrake, I found the sheet music for the Benny Greb drum solo below. BG is a great drummer and I need to learn more about his secrets.
https://youtu.be/-G0PB-HWh-w
Wednesday, May 4, 2022
Thursday, April 28, 2022
0 for 4 as far as attending these 4 Awesome Festivals
I am not going to attend any of these 4 awesome festivals in 2022, listed in chronological order. Do I wish I were going to FL, OH, KY, and CA in 2022? Hell yes! Is it too late to go to any of them? Hell yes!
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
Retirement is Bad?
Recently, I wrote about my future plans regarding retirement. Today, I read Retirement.
Tuesday, April 26, 2022
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