Comments on: Top 10 Gag Christmas Gifts for Technical Writers

By: Great Ideas for Personalized Christmas Gifts | Your Personal Creations

Great Ideas for Personalized Christmas Gifts | Your Personal Creations — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:17:52 +0000

[...] top 10 gag christmas gifts for technical writers – fortune cookies with fortunes rewritten as numbered lists. bobblehead with favorite sme’s face pasted on the front. stack of how-to manuals from everything you assembled for christmas. copy of that house episode with the agoraphobe tech … [...]

By: Anindita Basu

Anindita Basu — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:02:15 +0000

Jane Wouldn’t I just love a free dangling modified of my choice.

By: Jane

Jane — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:22:55 +0000

One of those handmade coupon books with coupons for things like “Free dangling modifier of your choice” and “Free cheerful reminder to GET OFF THE DANG COMPUTER AND COME TO DINNER.”

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:02:51 +0000

DITA cookies.

By: Nina

Nina — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:32:44 +0000

Heh … my fellow tech writer and I were joking the other day about giving Christmas gifts/cards to our SMEs, wishing them all kinds of good things for the holiday season … and writing them in a bulleted list.

By: Anindita Basu

Anindita Basu — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:08:10 +0000

A book called “Zen and the Art of Manual Maintenance”.
Another book called “Tina in Wonderland”.
The 10 Commandments republished through DITA.

By: Kai

Kai — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:43:34 +0000

Oh, what fun! Thanks, Tom! I know it’s a Top 10 list – but shouldn’t it be a bullet list…?

By: Rahel

Rahel — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:06:39 +0000

A non-qwerty keyboard – with the backspace key missing.
A predictive typing program that introduces typos.
A book of jargon.

By: shweta shetye

shweta shetye — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:20:57 +0000

You can have post-its with each style guideline on each note. MSTP, CMOS, or your own style guidelines.