short takes

[cellio]

Happy birthday lorimelton! We just returned from a celebratory dinner.

RoboHelp is probably not the doc tool for me, but I've got another 14 days on my evaluation copy to decide. It becomes increasingly clear that if I want to improve the feature set for my documentation, I'm going to need to venture into the land of DocBook. I hope they've got one well-documented, simple example somewhere in all of that information.

I am taking advantage of everyone else's holiday to banish the marketing-ish overview in my doc set to its own doc set (named "marketing"), so I can replace it with one more suitable to a technical audience that has already bought the product. I haven't really deleted anything, so anyone who wants to take over the new document and make it even more marketing-ish is free to do so. In fact, I encourage it. I think my change will be a fait accompli before the proponent of the marketing-uber-allis approach notices. Bwahaha.

There was no choir practice last night, so we went out to Chaya for dinner. (I might have cooked if I had remembered tonight's outing, or if I had found out before 8:15 that there was no choir.) Mmm, good sushi and a chef who understands the directive "kosher species only". It's rare that I can order a platter instead of a-la-carte at a sushi bar. We saw a couple of my coworkers, though they didn't notice me until Dani asked who I was waving to and I named names. Then we went home and watched two more episodes of Babylon 5. "The Long Twilight Struggle" just gets better every time I see it.

Tomorrow night we're going to see RotK. Should be fun.