Musings of an OpenSolaris Technical Writing Intern Mark Settle's Mighty Pen

With names like SunRay and SunWeb, Sun Microsystems betrays an affinity for its own brand. This must make being in marketing a little confusing, but let's take it one more step.

“SunThis, an extension of SunThat, leverages SunSomeOtherThing to preserve network resources and speed time-to-market.”

Pure poetry. I'm just glad that “Sun” is monosyllabic.

I'm a part of the install documentation team for Solaris. As a technical writing intern, my job is far less, well, technical, than many of those here. The nuts and bolts and bits and bytes are a bit intimidating, but I'm excited for the challenge.

Clay, my neighbor two doors down, says that I'm in an ideal position to learn this stuff from the floor up. He's right. I just have to climb a lot of stairs. I'm taking a course on UNIX tomorrow, and it won't be my last. The structure of the online components should keep it fun.

I think that it makes sense to develop more and more of these materials. Jonathon Schwartz, please take note!

Welcome to the blog of Mark Settle. You're reading my first post, and the last one - I promise - in which I'll refer to myself in the third person. This is my second day on the job, and I'm excited to be here.

Observations:

1. I went to the cafeteria at 3:30. It closes at 1:30 and I will not soon forget.
2. My chair is infinitely adjustable, so it's a good thing that I don't have OCD.
3. I look much more handsome in my Sun ID than in my driver's license.

Happy Valentine's Day.

-Mark