Making them up as I go (2)

1. Tell the truth.
2. Entice, or fail.
3. To emphasize, summarize.
4. If it ain't short, it don't work.
5. Be clear.


And so I don't forget:
Don't explain. Just tell a story.
Don't argue. Just say things that make sense.
Expect people to be bored by the writing, and shorten it.
Make the wording easy to take.

Remove Loose Ends -- the interesting one-liners that go nowhere.

Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Installing the paint-dot-net upgrade

I use paint.net often. Microsoft Paint is better at some things, so I switch off. But paint.net is good.

But I just installed the paint.net update, and an "Overview/Features" page came up in my browser. It says: 

paint.net 5 is the best free image and photo editing application for Windows based PCs since paint.net 4. 

So why would I want to use version 5? They compare version 5 to version 4, and they explicitly point out that version 5 is not better.

If they said 5 is better, and left it at that, I wouldn't question their sanity.

If they said 5 is the best version ever, I'd be all in.

But when they 

Oh, drop it, Art!