Daryl Colquhoun .. Technical Writer, Latin Consultant, Analyst, Programmer.

<body> <csobj csref="../web-data/Components/body.htm" h="3220" occur="32" t="Component" w="654"> <script type="text/javascript">  </script> <img src="head1.gif" alt="Logo" name="head1" height="150" width="550" border="0"> <h1><a name="Top">Daryl Colquhoun--technical writer</a></h1> <p align="center"><img src="hline.gif" alt="--------------------------------------------------------------------------------" height="5" width="500"></p> <h2><img src="computer.gif" alt="*" height="64" width="64" align="middle"> <a name="Professional">Professional Details</a></h2> <p>I am a technical writing consultant with expertise in producing paper and on-line documentation in these broad areas:</p> <table border="0"> <tr> <td valign="top" width="30%"> <ul> <li>Biotechnology <li>Government <li>Finance <li>Banking <li>Payroll <li>Engineering & manufacture <li>Mining <li>Education <li>Payroll <li>SCADA </ul> </td> <td class="blueborder"> <p class="thinmargin">A technical writer works with your product experts to produce paper and on-line documentation: user manuals, on-line context-sensitive help, installer and service manuals, administrator manuals.</p> <p class="thinmargin">Why use a technical writer?</p> <p class="thinmargin">A technical writer does nothing else and has experience in doing the kind of work that product experts only do as a sideline, and a sideline they usually dislike.</p> <p class="thinmargin">The technical writer is probably the first "outsider" to use your product. I can spot inconsistencies and areas your clients might find difficult, and find them before your clients do, at a stage when they are easy to fix.</p> <p class="thinmargin">A technical writer can write the documentation in parallel with product development. This way, inconsistencies and user difficulties can be identified even earlier and fixed at the design stage.</p> <p class="thinmargin">I am currently <b>working</b>.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <p align="center"><img src="hline.gif" alt="--------------------------------------------------------------------------------" height="5" width="500"></p> <h3>Contact</h3> <p>Phone 0418111218 or <script type="text/javascript">email("coot","acm.org","email")</script> me.</p> <h3>Tools</h3> <p><img src="yellodot.gif" alt="*" height="16" width="16"> Microsoft Office--Word, Excel, Access. Including VBA (formerly known as WordBasic, ExcelBasic, etc.)</p> <p><img src="yellodot.gif" alt="*" height="16" width="16"> HDK</p> <p><img src="yellodot.gif" alt="*" height="16" width="16"> FrameMaker and its companion Webworks Publisher</p> <p><img src="yellodot.gif" alt="*" height="16" width="16"> InDesign</p> <p><img src="yellodot.gif" alt="*" height="16" width="16"> Visio, Illustrator, PhotoShop</p> <p><img src="yellodot.gif" alt="*" height="16" width="16"> Visual Basic, Javascript, Perl, CGI, ASP</p> <h3>Other experience</h3> <p>I have also been a computer consultant with expertise in these broad areas:</p> <p><img src="bluedot.gif" alt="*" height="14" width="14"> Analyst/Programmer</p> <p><img src="bluedot.gif" alt="*" height="14" width="14"> Maintenance Team Leader</p> <p><img src="bluedot.gif" alt="*" height="14" width="14"> Educator</p> <h3>Systems</h3> <p><img src="bluedot.gif" alt="*" height="14" width="14"> Cobol, Fortran, Pascal, C, Perl, JavaScript</p> <p><img src="bluedot.gif" alt="*" height="14" width="14"> <a href="http://www.dbsoftware.com" target="_top">Dun and Bradstreet Software</a>'s HR:M Human Resources system and Millennium</p> <h3>Hardware</h3> <p><img src="bluedot.gif" alt="*" height="14" width="14"> IBM mainframes under TSO and CMS</p> <p><img src="bluedot.gif" alt="*" height="14" width="14"> Vax VMS</p> <h3>Qualifications</h3> <p><img src="bluedot.gif" alt="*" height="14" width="14"> BSc (Adelaide) with honours. Computer Science and Mathematics</p> <p><img src="bluedot.gif" alt="*" height="14" width="14"> Master of Cognitive Science (UNSW)</p> <h2><a href="http://www.astcnsw.org.au" target="_top"><img src="Astcmember58.png" alt="ASTC (NSW) Inc."></a> <a href="http://www.astcnsw.org.au" target="_top"><img src="Astcmemberdiff.gif" alt="ASTC (NSW) Inc."></a></h2> <p>Back to the <a href="../web-data/Components/body.htm#Top">top <img src="back.gif" alt="Topgraphic" height="40" width="40"></a></p> <p align="center"><img src="hline.gif" alt="--------------------------------------------------------------------------------" height="5" width="500"></p> <h2><a name="Alice" target="_top">Cryptography</a></h2> <p>See <a href="crypto/index.htm" target="_top">here</a>.</p> <p align="center"><img src="hline.gif" alt="--------------------------------------------------------------------------------" height="5" width="500"></p> <h2><img src="drinkme1.gif" alt="Alice image" height="64" width="64" align="middle"> <a name="Alice">Alice</a></h2> <p>If you know me, you may be wondering whether there's an Alice Concordance here. Alas, no. Technology has caught up and if you're here then it's unlikely you need an Alice Concordance, because you can access the text on-line and do your own searches. For example,</p> <p><img src="purpldot.gif" alt="*" height="14" width="14"> <a href="http://promo.net/pg/">Project Gutenberg</a>. They have Wonderland and Looking-glass texts.</p> <p>But I <strong>can</strong> offer you the text of the <a href="jammer.html" target="_self">German version of Jabberwocky</a>.</p> <p>Back to the <a href="../web-data/Components/body.htm#Top">top <img src="back.gif" alt="Topgraphic" height="40" width="40"></a></p> <p align="center"><img src="hline.gif" alt="--------------------------------------------------------------------------------" height="5" width="500"></p> <h2><a onmouseover="changeImages('coinh','coinf.gif');return true" onmouseout="changeImages('coinh','coinh.gif');return true" href="#"><img id="coinh" src="coinh.gif" alt="Roman coin" name="coinh" height="64" width="64" align="middle" border="0"></a> <a name="Latin">Latin</a></h2> <p>I am also available as a Latin Consultant!</p> <p>I have been interested in Latin for many years. I have studied CLassical Latin at ANU, Mediaeval Latin at University of Tasmania and Linguistics at UNSW, and have developed a special interest in Latin Liturgical texts as used in choral music.</p> <p>Latin? Yes, ...</p> <p><b>Latin</b> was the official language of the Roman Empire as it spread from Africa to Britain and from Spain to Palestine. There is an extensive literature in Latin - see, for example, <a onclick="CSAction(new Array(/*CMP*/'93448F2'));return CSClickReturn()" href="http://www.circe.unh.edu/classics/resources.html" target="_top" csclick="93448F2">Electronic Resources for Classicists</a>, or <a href="http://vergil.classics.upenn.edu/home/" target="_top">Vergil's Home Page</a>.</p> <p><b>Latin</b> was the language of scholars for centuries after the end of the Roman Empire, and was used for</p> <table border="0"> <tr> <td valign="top" width="4%"><img src="reddot.gif" alt="*" height="14" width="14"></td> <td class="nojust" valign="top" width="29%">Science (Newton wrote in Latin),</td> <td valign="top" width="4%"><img src="reddot.gif" alt="*" height="14" width="14"></td> <td class="nojust" valign="top" width="29%">Poetry,</td> <td valign="top" width="4%"><img src="reddot.gif" alt="*" height="14" width="14"></td> <td class="nojust" valign="top" width="30%">Philosophy,</td> </tr> <tr> <td><img src="reddot.gif" alt="*" height="14" width="14"></td> <td class="nojust">Law,</td> <td><img src="reddot.gif" alt="*" height="14" width="14"></td> <td class="nojust">Theology,</td> <td><img src="reddot.gif" alt="*" height="14" width="14"></td> <td class="nojust">Medicine.</td> </tr> </table> <p>Today you can see inscriptions in Latin on many public buildings in Europe.</p> <p><b>Latin</b> has been used for official documents of the Roman Catholic Church since-well, almost since the year dot! Many Church documents and music are in Latin.</p> <p><b>We find Latin</b> in all manner of documents. The old Parliamentary Speaker's chair (now in Old Parliament House, Canberra) has Latin inscriptions carved into its sides from top to bottom.</p> <p><b>You could find Latin ... </b></p> <table border="0"> <tr> <td valign="top" valign="top" width="5%"><img src="reddot.gif" alt="*" height="14" width="14"></td> <td class="nojust" valign="top" width="45%">On Sterling Silver,</td> <td valign="top" valign="top" width="5%"><img src="reddot.gif" alt="*" height="14" width="14"></td> <td class="nojust" valign="top" width="45%">On antiques,</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" valign="top"><img src="reddot.gif" alt="*" height="14" width="14"></td> <td class="nojust" valign="top">In your school Motto,</td> <td valign="top" valign="top"><img src="reddot.gif" alt="*" height="14" width="14"></td> <td class="nojust" valign="top">In the dedications and introductions of books old and new.</td> </tr> </table> <p><b>I can... </b></p> <p><img src="reddot.gif" alt="*" height="14" width="14"> Verify that your text or fragment is Latin.</p> <p><img src="reddot.gif" alt="*" height="14" width="14"> Translate it.</p> <p><img src="reddot.gif" alt="*" height="14" width="14"> Very possibly, tell you who wrote it and why.</p> <h4>E.g.</h4> <p>(Short for Exempli gratia, which is Latin meaning "For example".) You may have seen the words</p> <p align="center">CULPAM POENA PREMIT COMES</p> <p>at New South Wales Police stations and on Police documents, including the Police page in the phone book. It is the motto of the NSW Police Service. It is Latin.</p> <p>It means, "Punishment inescapably follows guilt".</p> <p>Where does it come from? I can tell you that it was originally written by the ancient Roman poet Horace (he's the one who wrote the "Carpe Diem" that the movie <i>Dead Poets Society</i> made so much of). It appeared in a poem praising the virtues of Horace's country -- he needed his Emperor's financial support! One of the virtues he praised was the rule of the Law and Justice.</p> <p>Back to the <a href="../web-data/Components/body.htm#Top">top <img src="back.gif" alt="topgraphic" height="40" width="40"></a></p> <hr> <p><a href="compendium.pdf">PDF</a></p> </csobj> <hr> <table width="100%" border="0"> <tr> <td valign="top"><img src="yoyoc.gif" alt="Logo" height="78" width="96"></td> </tr> </table>  </body>