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I'm Mike Pope. I live in the Seattle area. I've been a technical writer and editor for over 35 years. I'm interested in software, language, music, movies, books, motorcycles, travel, and ... well, lots of stuff.

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Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you in after life—save only this—that if you work hard and intelligently, you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot, and that, in my view, is the main, if not the sole purpose of education.

— John Alexander Smith



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First entry - 6/27/2003
Most recent entry - 4/4/2025

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Help me, Help

Thursday, 3 June 2004   09:37 AM

Comment today from someone who wanted online Help for a dialog box:
The problem is that Help is always describing what I’m looking at, but I’m usually wondering why I ended up here, or how to get somewhere else.

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