Hear, hear. Style is a powerful tool for ameliorating the difficulty of a subject. Technical writing is particularly prone to being bogged down in dry, formal,

Hear, hear. Style is a powerful tool for ameliorating the difficulty of a subject. Technical writing is particularly prone to being bogged down in dry, formal, jargon-filled prose -- particularly in documentation or research (anyone trying to glean insight from the MSDN documentation has probably experienced this). Sometimes a punchy, example-driven blog post can explain more than a formal essay filled with abstract reasoning.