Loquacity

Author's details

Name: Lana
Date registered: April 7, 2011
URL: http://lanabrindley.com

Latest posts

  1. OSDC 2013 – Call for Papers Now Open! — May 13, 2013
  2. Writing Effective Procedures — December 19, 2012
  3. ??????? — November 12, 2012
  4. Flooding in Queanbeyan – March 2012 — March 1, 2012
  5. Open Source Docs: the Good, the Bad, and the WTF?! — November 20, 2011

Most commented posts

  1. Hello world! — 4 comments
  2. The Grass is Greener on The Open Side — 3 comments
  3. There’s nothing wrong with Ohio — 3 comments
  4. Open Source Docs: the Good, the Bad, and the WTF?! — 2 comments
  5. linux.conf.au 2012 Call for presentations! — 1 comment

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Feb
09

The Language of Marketing

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I was absently staring at a new tube of toothpaste this morning as I washed my hair. You have to look at something, right? This one declared “healthy, whiter teeth for longer”. An image of extremely long (but healthy and white) teeth filled my mind, and was immediately pushed out by the technical writer in …

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Nov
30

MODY3 for the newly diagnosed

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Receiving a MODY3 diagnosis can be a threatening, frightening time. However, by understanding the disease, and knowing what to do about it, you can live a long and healthy life. This booklet will explain what MODY3 is, and will outline some of the changes you will need to make. Diabetes mellitus refers to a group of diseases …

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Nov
02

30 Things I Have Learned So Far

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This blog turned three a couple of days ago. This auspicious occasion is usually marked by the precipitous drop into the crazy novel-writing month of November (see the NaNoWriMo website if you’re not sure what I’m talking about). This November, however, the only crazy writing will be the penning of assignments, and the ordinary crazy …

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Jul
13

Keeping It Stupidly Simple

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Everyone has heard the old adage about the “KISS Principle: Keep It Simple, Stupid”. Easy to say, easy to remember, but often hard to do. At least, hard to do well. When we simplify our language, it often comes across as patronising, dumbed-down, or just plain rude. So how should Stupid keep it simple, without …

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Apr
06

FOSS Training

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I was privileged enough to be able to attend linux.conf.au in Wellington in January. While there, I caught Bob Edwards’ and Andrew Tridgell’s talk on “Teaching FOSS at Universities” (video of which can be found here). It intrigued me. Open source software development is very different to developing software in a more traditional, closed source …

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Dec
15

Rule 16 of the Internet

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In her introduction to the 1994 edition of “Damned Whores and God’s Police”, the wonderful Anne Summers wrote “I believe that to address these questions [of women's struggle for equality] adequately, a new book is needed and I hope that someone, somewhere, right now is hatching another ‘big book’, a sweeping feminist perspective on contemporary …

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Dec
14

Where do you get your ideas?

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Every writer has been asked this. Even unpublished, unknown, and unrecognised writers like me. In Stephen King’s brilliant book “On Writing” (which, you might have noticed, was the inspiration for this blog’s title) he gives a simple and succinct answer: Anything you damn well want. Honestly, I don’t know where I get my ideas. Sometimes …

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Dec
01

To Blog or Not to Blog

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13 November 2010 As of today, this blog is closed. It’s been a long, hard year and we’ve decided that we can’t go on anymore. The risks are too great. The existing posts will remain here for the foreseeable future, but the shop will be closed. Any and all further requests for purchase will be …

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Oct
28

Ebb and Flow

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I am sitting on the beach, looking out over the water. The sand I am sitting on is just a blanket of darkness, still slightly warm to the touch from the heat it absorbed through the day. I am not sure of the time, but I am aware somehow that it is late – well …

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Oct
28

Unrequited Love

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He sat in the car. Waiting. Just waiting. His gazed rested on the vista outside of the car, but he didn’t see it. His mind was a blank page. He was just waiting. Shallow little breaths, barely enough to fog in the cold air. Waiting. Inside, a war. One woman sat in a kitchen chair …

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