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  • B Brady Kelly

    I love writing, and often get quite carried away once I get started, but right now I can't get started. I need to deliver some documentation for a reporting application I've just delivered. It includes some KPI reports, KPI 'master' data, and daily figures (and their totals), with capture and edit screens for all data. I'm stuck on my opening line, and I think once I get past that, I'll be cruising nicely. Here is is, please attack it and leave me some pieces to collage a better one with: The Nkomati Production KPI Reporting application provides production KPI reports on demand, and on schedule, and also facilitates the maintenance and capture of static and daily data that these reports are built on.

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    Brady Kelly wrote:

    The Nkomati Production KPI Reporting application provides production KPI reports on demand, and on schedule, and also facilitates the maintenance and capture of static and daily data that these reports are built on. This message will self destruct in exactly 5 seconds.

    FTFY

    "People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs." ~ Anon "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough" ~ Albert Einstein Now reading: 'The Third Reich', by Michael Burleigh

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    • C Christian Graus

      Friends, Romans, Countrymen. Or Now is the winter of our discontent. Or Four score and seven years ago. How about 'I have a dream' ???

      Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

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      josda1000
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      Make these your own! You could say, "I have a plan." Or "Four fortnights and an hour ago." It's fun! Think inside the box!

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        Make these your own! You could say, "I have a plan." Or "Four fortnights and an hour ago." It's fun! Think inside the box!

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        Christian Graus
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        How about 'I have an adult rated fantasy' ?

        Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

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        • C Christian Graus

          How about 'I have an adult rated fantasy' ?

          Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

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          Roger Wright
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          That would certainly capture a reader's interest early on. This could set a new standard for writing manuals that might increase the chances of users actually reading them! :-D

          "A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"

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          • B Brady Kelly

            I love writing, and often get quite carried away once I get started, but right now I can't get started. I need to deliver some documentation for a reporting application I've just delivered. It includes some KPI reports, KPI 'master' data, and daily figures (and their totals), with capture and edit screens for all data. I'm stuck on my opening line, and I think once I get past that, I'll be cruising nicely. Here is is, please attack it and leave me some pieces to collage a better one with: The Nkomati Production KPI Reporting application provides production KPI reports on demand, and on schedule, and also facilitates the maintenance and capture of static and daily data that these reports are built on.

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            Gary Wheeler
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            I start with an outline. Rephrasing your opening a bit:

            Overview

            The Nkomati Production KPI Reporting application helps maintain and report production KPI data. Static and daily data are captured. Reports may be printed on schedule or on demand.

            Data Captured

            Scheduled Reports

            On-Demand Reports

            Data Maintenance

            Software Zen: delete this;

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              That would certainly capture a reader's interest early on. This could set a new standard for writing manuals that might increase the chances of users actually reading them! :-D

              "A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"

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              phannon86
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              Purchase our software, now with free pr0nz!!! :laugh:

              He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

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              • B Brady Kelly

                I love writing, and often get quite carried away once I get started, but right now I can't get started. I need to deliver some documentation for a reporting application I've just delivered. It includes some KPI reports, KPI 'master' data, and daily figures (and their totals), with capture and edit screens for all data. I'm stuck on my opening line, and I think once I get past that, I'll be cruising nicely. Here is is, please attack it and leave me some pieces to collage a better one with: The Nkomati Production KPI Reporting application provides production KPI reports on demand, and on schedule, and also facilitates the maintenance and capture of static and daily data that these reports are built on.

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                Mark_Wallace
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                1. Make notes of everything you want to say. 2. Burn the notes, and write what the reader needs to know, instead.

                I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                • M Mark_Wallace

                  1. Make notes of everything you want to say. 2. Burn the notes, and write what the reader needs to know, instead.

                  I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                  0x3c0
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                  Mark Wallace wrote:

                  write what the reader needs to know, instead

                  "Luke, I am your father"

                  OSDev :)

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                  • G Gary Wheeler

                    I start with an outline. Rephrasing your opening a bit:

                    Overview

                    The Nkomati Production KPI Reporting application helps maintain and report production KPI data. Static and daily data are captured. Reports may be printed on schedule or on demand.

                    Data Captured

                    Scheduled Reports

                    On-Demand Reports

                    Data Maintenance

                    Software Zen: delete this;

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                    Brady Kelly
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                    Cool, thanks. That's perfect to start with. However, a suitable compliment to static data still bothers me. Daily is very descriptice, but I'd like to find something more general than daily, but dynamic date seems to technical for financial users. Moving data?

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                    • M Mark_Wallace

                      1. Make notes of everything you want to say. 2. Burn the notes, and write what the reader needs to know, instead.

                      I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                      Brady Kelly
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                      I like.

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                      • C Christian Graus

                        How about 'I have an adult rated fantasy' ?

                        Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

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                        josda1000
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                        I like that one definitely lol

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                        • B Brady Kelly

                          Cool, thanks. That's perfect to start with. However, a suitable compliment to static data still bothers me. Daily is very descriptice, but I'd like to find something more general than daily, but dynamic date seems to technical for financial users. Moving data?

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                          Gary Wheeler
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                          I have a feeling the term 'static' is a little technical too. For users in the financial industry, would the terms 'fixed' (for static) and 'variable' (for daily or dynamic) work?

                          Software Zen: delete this;

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                          • B Brady Kelly

                            I love writing, and often get quite carried away once I get started, but right now I can't get started. I need to deliver some documentation for a reporting application I've just delivered. It includes some KPI reports, KPI 'master' data, and daily figures (and their totals), with capture and edit screens for all data. I'm stuck on my opening line, and I think once I get past that, I'll be cruising nicely. Here is is, please attack it and leave me some pieces to collage a better one with: The Nkomati Production KPI Reporting application provides production KPI reports on demand, and on schedule, and also facilitates the maintenance and capture of static and daily data that these reports are built on.

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                            She breathed heavily, grunting in delight as he... You can take it from this point...

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                              Purchase our software, now with free pr0nz!!! :laugh:

                              He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

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                              josda1000
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                              Billy Mays here! We've got a new product, full with pron!!! lol

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                              • B Brady Kelly

                                I love writing, and often get quite carried away once I get started, but right now I can't get started. I need to deliver some documentation for a reporting application I've just delivered. It includes some KPI reports, KPI 'master' data, and daily figures (and their totals), with capture and edit screens for all data. I'm stuck on my opening line, and I think once I get past that, I'll be cruising nicely. Here is is, please attack it and leave me some pieces to collage a better one with: The Nkomati Production KPI Reporting application provides production KPI reports on demand, and on schedule, and also facilitates the maintenance and capture of static and daily data that these reports are built on.

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                                Media2r
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                                It would seem your faith in the Lounge as a place of serious response was sorely misplaced. ;P //L

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                                • B Brady Kelly

                                  I love writing, and often get quite carried away once I get started, but right now I can't get started. I need to deliver some documentation for a reporting application I've just delivered. It includes some KPI reports, KPI 'master' data, and daily figures (and their totals), with capture and edit screens for all data. I'm stuck on my opening line, and I think once I get past that, I'll be cruising nicely. Here is is, please attack it and leave me some pieces to collage a better one with: The Nkomati Production KPI Reporting application provides production KPI reports on demand, and on schedule, and also facilitates the maintenance and capture of static and daily data that these reports are built on.

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                                  Good morning, Mr. Phelps... :-D

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                                  • realJSOPR realJSOP

                                    She breathed heavily, grunting in delight as he... You can take it from this point...

                                    .45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
                                    -----
                                    "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
                                    -----
                                    "The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001

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                                    A chick who grunts doesn't inspire me. Now, She breathed heavily, moaning in delight as he...

                                    Software Zen: delete this;

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                                      A chick who grunts doesn't inspire me. Now, She breathed heavily, moaning in delight as he...

                                      Software Zen: delete this;

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                                      Gary Wheeler wrote:

                                      She breathed heavily, moaning in delight as he...

                                      slowly took his long cable and plugged it into her Ethernet port. She gasped at the sight of his obvious technical prowess, while he ... Geekrotica


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                                      • realJSOPR realJSOP

                                        She breathed heavily, grunting in delight as he... You can take it from this point...

                                        .45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
                                        -----
                                        "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
                                        -----
                                        "The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001

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                                        Christian Graus
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                                        John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

                                        grunting in delight

                                        Grunting is what livestock do.

                                        Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

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                                        • M Media2r

                                          It would seem your faith in the Lounge as a place of serious response was sorely misplaced. ;P //L

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                                          Christian Graus
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                                          Yes, but is anyone surprised ?

                                          Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

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