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Holy yoiks, I've been remiss in my blogging duties. In fact (and it gives me no pleasure to confess this), I've been absent for more than two weeks. And from my own site! I mean, why even have a blog site if you're not going to blog? Fortunately, I've been careening my efforts in some positive if helter-skelter directions. That is to say, I've been working my mother-father ass off. Just take a look at my bicep!

Okay, so that's not actually mine. Nor is that my photograph. Or my tiger drawing. But I did put the two together using an array of Photoshop's most advanced features.

Here's the skinny on this and other news: Read more » 

Dear LPersonne (not to mention other persons),

I am so excited to have published a book like InDesign CS4 One-on-One. I could not be more proud of David Futato and the rest of my team for having created such a beautiful and educational manuscript. Here's one of David's typically elegant and understated documents.

Funny thing about books tho -- of all the kinds of training I do, books are the one I can't edit on-the-fly. A printed book is the ultimate form of "destructive edit." There is no undo, no backstep. Your every training defect is on largest display.

Which is my way of saying: We have a mistake, and our first for this title may not be our last. But my policy, in this site and elsewhere, will be to admit to mistakes and remedy them. (WWOD?) Read more »