ITauthor

About me
My name is Alistair Christie. I work as Documentation Manager for a UK-based software company, where I've worked since 2002. A long time ago (it feels like it anyway) I used to work in the publishing business as an editorial project manager for an educational publisher in Oxford. I later worked as a freelance editor and then decided to combine my experience working on books with my hobbyist enthusiasm for software and try my hand as a technical writer - and I never looked back!

I live in Edinburgh with my wife, Patricia, and two teenage kids.

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About this site
Here's what's on the other tabs for this site:

• Home – I originally started blogging just to provide myself with a way of remembering the techie stuff I sometimes figure out, then forget and then need again at a later date. So my older posts cover a lot of fairly obscure software-related topics, that'll give you an indication of whatever it was I happened to be messing around with at the time. More recently I've been concentrating more on technical writing, so there's much more of a documentation focus to the blog these days. But I still post on other techie things when I think I might find it useful to refer back to in future – or when I think I might be able to save someone else digging around for some information I've managed to unearth. So why not dip into the category archives. You might find something interesting tucked away in there.
• Podcasts – the ITauthor podcast. I recorded my first podcast in December 2005 and aimed to do one a week. I later revised this to once a month. Now I do them when I get round to it - which, recently, means hardly ever. My original idea was that doing these would help me improve my presentation skills while providing some interesting information for other tech writers. I'll leave you to decide for yourself whether my presentation has improved any since I started doing these! And check out my podcast archive for a complete list of shows.
• Articles – these could have been blog posts but they're they're not date-based, and they're things you might want to read again, so I've called these pages "articles". This section also includes a list of my favourite blogs and some podcast recommendations from the ITauthor Podcast.
• Elsewhere – I try to remember to post interesting tech-writing-related things I've read on Writer River: these are the latest items I've posted. I'm also an occasional twitterer and this page lists my most recent tweets.
• Downloads – occasionally I hack together some software. Even more occasionally I'll inflict it on the world. If you want to try it out, you can download it from this page.

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