Its 10:35 on a Tuesday morning and you’re queuing for a coffee at that cafe that’s so hot right now. The Barista knows your order and bumps you up the line. He hands you your double shot flat white with a smile and presents the credit card terminal. You tap, it beeps; and you walk
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All around the world adults and children are celebrating Easter today. Children hunt for eggs with surprises inside and get candy in their Easter baskets and decorate eggs. Adults always cook yummy foods while home for Easter, but this year because of the virus we are celebrating a bit different. Today I got an Easter
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Bob’s old off-white Camry wheezed its way down the empty Avenue, turning left on 8th past the shuttered shops and empty sidewalks. Spilling over the back seat were a few groceries, a squashed loaf of bread and roll of toilet paper that he fought a tough guy for at the store. Rearranging his bent glasses,
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Software, it’s around us every day, to the point that we take it for granted. Having started in I.T. in the early 90’s, “information systems” was the wild-wild west and we were the gunslingers. Every few months we saw the release of new applications and hardware that sent current technologies to the scrap heap. Some
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It’s mid-December, 35 degrees Celsius and the smoke from the bushfires hangs heavy over Brisbane Australia. My office overlooks the river that runs through my little city. In Brisbane, the river impacts everyone. You either need to drive over it, walk across it or catch a ferry on it. The river is part of everyday
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The unrelenting small desk fan purred hot air across Bob’s desk, threatening to send the piles of stacked documents flying around his office. Dishevelled and tired, Bob was scanning the vast expanse of unfinished technical publication tasks when he was jarred by his vibrating cell phone. He did not need to see the number nor
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The CAWG (Civil Aviation Working Group) has been providing direction on the presentation of content and the preparation of the documentation compliant to their Business Rules. With R4i Binder we have a prepared XSL-FO Stylesheet that allows for the S1000D content to be output to PDF as per the Civil Aviation requirements. In R4i Binder
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As the newest member of the OneStrand Team, this was the first industry conference that I have attended and it was a new experience that I will not soon forget. It was a fantastic opportunity to work with my fellow colleague Reeta Nye, along with partners and current and potential customers that are researching new
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There is a cemetery known as Arlington Cemetery which is located in Virginia and stands atop a hill overlooking Washington, DC. There is a tomb there known as the “Tomb of the Unknown Soldier”, guarded during the times Arlington is opened. These guards are changed every 30 minutes during the summer and every 2 hours
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