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Subject:RE: What do you do when there's nothing to do? From:"Chesler, Lynn" <lchesler -at- auspicecorp -dot- com> To:"'Sarah L Blake'" <sarah -dot- blake -at- exony -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 7 Mar 2008 10:59:32 -0500 (EST)
In one of my jobs, the tech pubs team edited all the error messages.
Lynn
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Subject: RE: What do you do when there's nothing to do?
...having a second go at sending this, because for all the 'the message's
content type was not explicitly allowed' response, I for one can't see
anything wrong with it...
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I'm sure it's happened to us all at some point. That moment when the
hectic work for the last release is just a distant memory, and the next
release is just a sparkle in R&D's eye. You've updated all the
documentation according to the spec, done that re-indexing you were always
intending to get around to, created a new version of the training course,
read the more useful or interesting of the books and manuals lying
around...
What do you do next?
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Sarah Blake
Technical Author
exony
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