Mike's Desk The personal blog of Michael Bailey.
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Journal Me This…

January 11

I have owned theWriteQuality domain for a couple years and in that time  its undergone a number of changes.  At first  I was going to use it to blog strictly about writing, then it became a site where I promoted myself as a freelance writer.  Now tWQ it to become my ’source blog’; the place where all my online blogging – business and professional – is logged and can feed to other sites.

So, tWQ is going to be a very expressive and personal site – you will get everything from religion and politics to cars, movies and book reviews.  It will be a kind of professional journal and portfolio  – my own column that I dreamed about when I was in high school.

I have done some professional blogging for other companies, but not put together a site for myself.  This will be it.  Please feel free to comment on anything you read – I am interested in what people have to say.

What is a CDRL? Glad you asked…

January 6

A CDRL is a Contract Data Requirement List – basically a list of supporting document that the government requires when purchasing something.  When that something is is software, the documents grow long and complex very quickly.

After about 3 years of working with mostly the same documents, My company now has a new contract with revised kinds of documents.  About 7 new ones, to be exact.

But the really interesting part is that one of them is not just a report, but requires an entirely new and detailed process to be put in place for the testing of our software.

Basically, I just found about 2 years of new work to do. Possibly.  I’ll find out more tomorrow morning.

Mike’s Desk is the personal blog of Michael Bailey.

Most of what I blog about is related to writing: everything from technical writing to screenwriting and all points in between, (which is pretty broad, I admit), but also delves into other issues I am interested in including politics, science, religion, sci-fi and cars and especially my family.

Don’t be surprised to see syrupy, lovey-dovey comments about my wife Karly and our two girls Isabella and Amelia, either.

Feel free to drop my a line or two whenever.  My inbox is always open.

About Michael

I am a writer living in Burbank, CA.  I work for Integrated Data Services as a Technical Writer.  I offer my services as a writer, editor and consultant through a couple separate websites:

Through ContentField.com I offer professional writing and communications consulting services.

Through WritersFirst.com I offer story consulting and screenplay related services.

I live with my wife Karly, two daughters Isabella and Amelia, and a shaggy dog Lucy.