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Wed, 05 Dec 2007
Amity website "Newsroom"We created a "Newsroom" page on the Amity website - a collection of links to our "press releases" (which we release to anybody but the press ...). So far, we have released 4 such texts: 3 in October and November 2006, one today. Our press work is a quixotic fight, with virtually everybody saying yes and doing no.
Posted on 05 Dec 2007 at 15:23 in /work. -- Permalink
Fri, 30 Nov 2007
Amity start page is onlineWell, that took us quite a while ... Now the start page has a new look - and it works. Big improvement!
Posted on 30 Nov 2007 at 15:57 in /work. -- Permalink
Thu, 29 Nov 2007
Amity Newsletter onlineWith the latest issue already on the way to the printer (or so we hope!), I finally got round to posting the 3rd issue for this year. With the CMS we're still using for the ANL, posting articles and photos is always a terrible hassle. Very time-consuming, and it's all but impossible not to make any mistakes. The end product looks rather middling, too. Time to move on to something much better: Mambo? Plone?
Posted on 29 Nov 2007 at 12:43 in /work. -- Permalink
Tue, 27 Nov 2007
The elusive quest for productivityOr should it be "quest for elusive productivity"? - I need neither boss nor staff meeting in order to get hardly anything done at work. Spent the whole morning putting up 4 links and making tiny changes to the stylesheet of the new Amity website.
(Boss and staff meetings do help though. It's difficult to bring down everything without them.)
In an hour, I'll start recording my radio thing.
Posted on 27 Nov 2007 at 14:34 in /work. -- Permalink
Wed, 14 Nov 2007
Positive coverage banned at the officeWe're about to announce the new website in the printed "Newsletter". I wrote a draft announcement yesterday. However, it was then made clear to us by XXX that we were not to describe it as "using state-of-the-art web technology". Fact is, the new website does use such technology. Only, to the aforesaid person (who knows nothing about the internet) it's a self-evident truth that her underlings can't possibly ever come up with anything of high quality and cutting-edge. Grumble ...
Well, who cares!
Posted on 14 Nov 2007 at 11:10 in /work. -- Permalink
Tue, 13 Nov 2007
The great spoilerWork can really spoil your whole day! I wasn't able to post a single thing here this morning because of it.
Posted on 13 Nov 2007 at 15:37 in /work. -- Permalink
Thu, 08 Nov 2007
Put up a working donations linkJust before calling it a day, and indeed a week, I realised that the link to PayPal on our donations page was still leading nowhere - I had put a "blind" link there just in order to show colleagues what our new website could look like. So I was in for a last-minute repair.
Well, so much for "Today, I'll be back home around noon" ...
Posted on 08 Nov 2007 at 17:11 in /work. -- Permalink
One more goes down the drainSometimes, when you look closely at what you're supposed to translate, you realise it's just too bad. Better to sweep it under the carpet and hope that overseas audiences will never find out anything about certain aspects of our work, such as working with the Communist Party in order to create a "harmonious society" - a dictator's dream, everybody else's nightmare.
Posted on 08 Nov 2007 at 14:45 in /work. -- Permalink
Reduced my workloadI magically reduced the number of articles I still need to translate from 8 to 2. Some things just take care of themselves if you wait long enough. My letters and e-mails, though, won't write themselves.
Posted on 08 Nov 2007 at 14:30 in /work. -- Permalink
Amity 2008 calendar announcementAt least I got one of the things on my list done. A nice calendar, by the way. (True, the design is still rather conservative but we're working on it.) So go ahead and order your copy now!
Posted on 08 Nov 2007 at 13:37 in /work. -- Permalink
Getting lost in less relevant jobsFixing links, replacing a picture, writing an announcement ("Buy our new calendar!"), checking e-mails, replacing the broken start page for both the Chinese and the English websites, tracking a cancelled PayPal payment ... All at the same time. More important than all of this would be writing 2 letters and several e-mails, as well as translating the remaining 8 or so Chinese articles.
If you want to make sure you don't get anything done, go to the office.
Posted on 08 Nov 2007 at 12:02 in /work. -- Permalink
Wed, 07 Nov 2007
Finished one translation: Qinghai biogas projectThat went more smoothly than I had anticipated. Fortunately, the article I started working on turned out to be quite well written - not the usual kind of "On September 26, a great mobilisation meeting was held in the beautiful city of XXX in the presence of CPPCC member YYY ..." - yawn ... No, this was quite different; and well written texts are a lot easier to translate than the mumble-jumble we get so often. It's the story of a great success, which even in my less jubilant English version sounds a bit too good to be completely true, but there you are. (Chinese version)
Posted on 07 Nov 2007 at 18:38 in /work. -- Permalink
Chat attackI should be translating some 9 articles ... But then everybody is coming online and I'm chatting all afternoon.
Posted on 07 Nov 2007 at 16:30 in /work. -- Permalink
Chinese-English translatingTime to translate a few more articles from the Chinese website into English, so we can post them on the English website. Not before our weekly "Amity Lunch" though ...
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