What I mean by this is that we are now using Joomla, a content management system, for the conference coverage website. I submitted my first two stories straight into the site whereas before I would have been emailing Word docs to Gary then he'd have been editing and emailing them on to Michael to put up. Photos are easier too (though I do not know the details) and Michael has installed a nice lightbox gizmo so you view photos floating on top of the (temporarily greyed-out) story, having clicked them from thumbnails.
It's definitely technically cool. It's definitely better from several points of view and will make some things easier/better. At the same time I am feeling slightly aggrieved: either the CMS or my possession/use of a laptop, or both, have rendered me even less liable to social interaction than before. I can now go out to an event, rush back here, write up, submit it and get ready for the next event (yeah, if only I had, but that is another story) without actually speaking to anyone. Today, Michael and Gary might as well have been in San Francisco for all I've seen of them.
I probably ought to get a bit less pathetic about all this. Tsk. Maybe something nicer will happen this evening! {little annoying smiley face}
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Joomla looks pretty cool. I am particularly a fan of the rather unnecessary ! in their name as seen on the front page of their website.
And yes, stop being pathetic. There are lots of other interesting people there besides Gary and Michael - talk to them! Alternatively don't and just look forward to next year when I will (hopefully) be a third possible person there to converse with.
Yeah, I ought to have been less pathetic, and actually G&M were up to their eyebrows in Heavy Stuff, and it's a bit unfair to have moaned. And actually I found that I did better for human contact by visiting the writing room to write even though with the laptop I didn't absolutely need to. I think I was just a bit low and knackered when I wrote all that.
and yes it would be v v good indeed to have a Lottie to chat to in Banff too! :)
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