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Yup. Also, not a website coder.
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- by editing the help text.
When the tech pubs writer who authored my help left to pursue her master's degree, the pointy-haired types decided that I could maintain my own application help. Since that time, I've touched up the help whenever I've made changes, but I've never done a comprehensive review. We're re-organizing some of our offline documentation, and I've been reworking the help to match.
This has forced me to take a different look at the UI for this product, and I've already fixed several problems. All but one are minor, and that one was in a part of the product that isn't used often.
It's kind of eye-opening to get this perspective. Imagine what would happen if I actually talked to customers, and people who ran the machine...
Software Zen: delete this;
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Don't do it! That way lies madness!
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Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate, indeed.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Papé Satàn, papé Satàn aleppe
 I always love seeing Dante quoted worldwide 
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote: Imagine what would happen if I actually talked to customers
Do not do that ! Most of them are completely computer illiterate, and would not understand the least thing of your UI !
... wait a second ...
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Made a loaf of bread today - olive bread - and it's fresh out of the oven: Piccy[^]
And now the house smells of fresh baked bread, and it's making me really hungry and I can't concentrate on work...
And I can't eat it yet - because it's too hot to cut well - Herself won't be home for a couple of hours so I can't have lunch 'til then...damnit!
Methinks olive bread, Camembert, salami, and Tomkin tomatoes is going to feature highly on the luncheon menu today.
What are you planning on?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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God knows, but I'm bloody hungry.
You know when you get up, really are not hungry at all, really don't want anything, drive to work and feel bloody starving when you get there?
That, and our canteen stopped opening for breakfast a few months ago.
4 minutes till I had off for a forage.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Now? Homicide.  you made my hunger swell.
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Philly steak sandwich - special Friday treat.
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I'm going to have to run an extra couple of miles just from the caloric overload from your lunch description.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Now you know why I don't run... 
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With all of the 26.2 and 13.1 (marathon, half-marathon) stickers the runners put onto their cars,
It appears you (and I) could use ... 0.0 distance sticker[^]
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."
- G.K. Chesterton
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I'd probably have to train to run that far!
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I hate you.. As all I have is a ham, cheese and pickle roll 
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Just had Pizza Prosciutto e Funghi.
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Ham and mushrooms always go well together, especially with a good cheese. 
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Following your food posts it strikes me that you're not Italian, as you share many of the common Italian tastes and usually eat what could easily be a common Italian lunch!
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I also love ham and mushrooms, especially without mushrooms. 
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Nice. I wish I had that right now.
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Haven't had lunch in years. Just got fed up with wasting all that time thinking about it, shopping for it, and preparing it. Can't say I miss it.
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Skipping lunch [very hungry now] as Mrs Wife is home early and we're going out for a drive in the toot-toot car and a Worzel Gummage*
* Slice of tea and a cup of cake
veni bibi saltavi
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: Skipping lunch [very hungry now] as Mrs Wife is home early and we're going out for a drive in the toot-toot car and a Worzel Gummage*
* Shag in a haystack
FTFY
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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chriselst wrote: Shag in a haystack
You, like me, are married. Shirley you'd know such things don't happen any more. 
veni bibi saltavi
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