Ketherian's Notebook

To the near and dear friend with a serious ... desire to travel; I suggest you check out this link. It's got some really good advice.

OAMC - yeah, I'll be doing that sometime soon. Probably just after I master lunch-fu with bento boxes.

Snacksby was down, but Cooking Light has some great info about tomatoes on their site. Recipes I want to copy to Snacksby include:

• Tropical Yellow Tomato Salsa
• Baked snapper with Tomato-Orange sauce
• Seafood salad
• Tomatoe-Green Bean Risotto with Feta Cheese
• Crispy Salmon with Risotto and Slow-Roasted Tomaotes
• Fresh Tomato Soup Au Gratin
• Flatbread with Oven-Dried TOmatoes, Rosemary, and Fontina
• Grilled Steak with Charred Tomato Salsa

FrameMaker links
Dan Emory's tome on templates is a very good reference for anyone making templates.

Yesterday at work a co-worker told me the following little story:

At an interview she was asked if she was an expert with Adobe FrameMaker. She said no. She'd used the product for 3 years, but didn't consider herself an expert. When asked to explain - she said she worked with someone who was an expert. If the interviewers met this person, they wouldn't consider themselves to be "experts" either.

That other person was me.
And I've been using Adobe FrameMaker for 10 years now.

The story made me feel pretty good as I rarely consider myself to be an expert in anything. My SO told me to work it. If I'm an expert, I should make my knowledge work for me somehow. I feel inspired to write, but am now searching for a topic. FrameMaker is a fairly esoteric product that I learned for work.

I'm weird (yes, the folks that know me already know that) in that I read manuals. Cover to cover - often before playing with the product to which they pertain. Ages ago O'Reilly began a series called "The Missing Manual". They'd write the standard user guide they thought the product lacked. I'm tempted to write something similar, but there's already a couple on the market written by people certified with the product.

This one is going to take some thought.