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		<title>Don&#8217;t be normal!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft Word is a wonderful product, and I&#8217;m not joking at all. It&#8217;s easy to forget that not so long ago, back in the days of BW (&#8220;before Word&#8221;), creating documents for any purpose was a long and tiresome process. Microsoft Word has made things a lot easier for many people who produce many kinds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farbey&#8217;s Law of Document Stability</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:52:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day, I was making final revisions to a group of Microsoft Word documents that were needed for an imminent product release. I placed an updated version of a document on our document management system and sent a link to my manager for him to review it. In the copy he opened every single [...]]]></description>
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		<title>London Tech Writers Social, February 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:42:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first London Tech Writers Social of 2010 takes place on 25th February 2010. Here are the details:
Date: 25th February 2010
Time: 6:30pm
Venue: Garrick Arms, 8 – 10 Charing Cross Road, London WC2H 0HG
The Garrick Arms pub is 2 minutes walk from Leicester Square station (Northern and Piccadilly lines) and less than 10 minutes walk from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The pre-history of Information Design</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a personal recollection of the St Bride Library from many years ago, when it was a public library with a specialist collection, and was very convenient for the school I went to, which at the time was on the Embankment at Blackfriars. My old school has moved, and the Library has reverted to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Please don&#8217;t read this book</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I enjoy attending conferences, whether I am making a presentation or not. You get to meet interesting people, hear interesting talks, and see how other people give their presentations. From the point of view of watching and learning from other people, the TCUK09 Conference was enlightening. I was grateful for some positive feedback from my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A little more advice for job seekers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The topic of finding work as a technical writer came up on a mailing list I subscribe to recently, and I want to share some advice here. I have been a job seeker in this market many times, and I was also involved in recruitment for a while some years ago, so I have literally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What not to say to a technical writer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week a blog post by fellow technical writer Colum McAndrew (who I was delighted to meet in person at the London Tech Writers Social) raised a lot of responses on Twitter. Colum&#8217;s topic was Top 10 technical writer annoyances. Some of the items on Colum&#8217;s list resonated with me and with other professional technical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>London Tech Writers Social</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been running informal social meetings of tech writers in London for the last two years. These are now independent gatherings but they are supported by both the ISTC and the UK Chapter of the STC. The next London Tech Writers Social takes place on 19th November at a new venue. Here are the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting started advice for would-be technical writers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following question appeared on a mailing list for technical writers that I subscribe to:
Would a technical writing or technical communication graduate *certificate* (rather than a master&#8217;s) be useful in trying to find a technical  writing job for a university graduate with a B.A. in anthropology from UCLA and no further higher education beyond [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Derek Torres</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I met Derek Torres about three years ago when he was a speaker at an STC regional conference that I helped organise in London. Since then I had the pleasure of meeting him at a number of technical writing events in Europe and the USA. As well as being a technical writer Derek was a [...]]]></description>
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