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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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Recognizing your shallowness is perhaps the most profound act of your intellectual life. It's the recognition that you're mortal, that you're busy, that you've got to survive in a cruel world, and that there's more to read, more to write, more to think about, and more to solve, than you could ever possibly manage in your lifespan.

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November 2025

25 Most-Visited Entries

1. THE most basic way to implement ASP.NET Razor security
2. Fun (or not) with noun stacks
3. Rendering HTML as HTML in Razor
4. Using the confirmation feature for ASP.NET Web Pages security
5. Changing the headlight on a 2010 Honda Shadow Phantom
6. RSS feed truncation: reader's choice
7. When in English, do like English
8. Constructing site URLs in ASP.NET Razor
9. Dude, where's my Razor API ref?
10. WebMatrix Beta 2 tip: why can't I use helpers?
11. Documenting ASP.NET Razor
12. Anniversaries in IT
13. Tech review tips and strategies (Part 1)
14. Moving a website in WebMatrix
15. Finding the right trousers
16. Blog update: Added a Facebook Like button
17. How Feynman learned to crack a safe
18. Blog feed fixed, oops
19. Moving the blog
20. Blog move successful (?)
21. Geopolitical concerns and the 4 fingers of ... change
22. Theory And Practice Of Editing New Yorker Articles [Selections]
23. Each unique different kind of its own
24. Well, THAT happened
25. SME + training doth not (necessarily) a writer make