If you live in Australia, you would have heard that Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan—twenty-something Australians convicted of trying to smuggle heroin into Indonesia 10 years ago—were executed this morning. By firing squad, after that long in prison. They were my age. After months of dread, every time I watched the news—the way I found [...]
Caution: this post contains adjectives that are non traditional in a business writing context. To rephrase that, there is some mild moderate swearing. Oh, and I think I’ve used my entire week’s quota of ellipses. You see these things all the time. You know, social media clickbait: 17 Words You Should Never Use, 7 Mistakes [...]
Sony Z3 compact software update messes with the time. A UX fail, or just my problem?
I’ll be speaking at the next Brisbane Content Strategy Group meet-up on May 12, between 5.00 and 6.30pm, about how to write and structure questions, help text and error messages...
We quietly published our testimonial page the other day. Look at all these nice people saying nice things about our courses!
In August, I'll be talking about accessibility, and what you need to do for websites and documents to make them accessible at the Queensland Business Writers' Conference. Registrations for 2015 now open.
It's not 'don't talk about Blog Club'—it's the complete opposite: talk lots! Luckily, Minnie has been creating some excellent words of the day posts. But, I've been absent. I have a short contract at the moment, so have been a bit busy. But, there are some fun things on the horizon! Besides posts with more [...]
My wife Minnie worked in a bookshop for years, from the age of 14, right up into university. This has given her special ninja bookshop powers.
We have a weird relationship with lawyers. If I mention my secret law degree, I generally get one of the following: Joke about prosecuting criminals / selling my soul / ambulance chasing. (These are all very funny, by the way.) Interrogation about how to save the world The question: Why don’t you have a lawyer [...]
My mother-in-law gave me a seed sprouter, because I mentioned that hers was a nice design. So now I (Minnie) have grown some fenugreek sprouts. Pretty tasty. The instructions, however, are rubbish. No-one seems to have thought about the person who would actually be reading them. They're broken up into multiple sections, with each of those [...]
