Thursday, 23 April 2009

Welcome!

Welcome to this site where I liveblogged the ECG 2009 event (see their website). Just a few points to note:

  • This was a liveblog, so it is not necessarily presented particularly well, but it should capture the atmosphere as I moved through the conference. quality control. I might do some cleanup at some point.
  • Partly this is because I'll be blogging from my mobile using the ShoZu application, which doesn't let you edit your posts. I won't have computer-based internet access at any time during my stay at ECG, so this is the only means I'll have to post. Apart from the lack of a post editor, ShoZu has a couple of other problems:
    • It posts a "posted by ShoZu" logo at the bottom of each post.
    • Perhaps most importantly, it isn't compatible with Blogger Video, meaning that any videos I post will have to be downloaded to view (unless you have some fancy Firefox add-in to view them directly). For these movies, a large movie picture will appear in the post, and you can just click on that to download and view the video.
  • Speaking of videos, they'll probably be quite low quality as I have to transfer them over a mobile network.
  • During ECG 2009 I'll be staying in a building in Llandudno which I'll refer to as headquarters or HQ. I won't reveal the exact location for privacy/security reasons. Suffice to say that we will be sleeping in dormitories and the building has facilities resembling a hostel.
  • I did post to Twitter a little as well, but only really in response to the official Twitter channel. I posted using @ECGconference. ECG does have its own Twitter page.
  • I'm a veteran of Easter People but I haven't been to ECG before, and so any comparisons will be with Easter People 2007 or earlier (meaning I might class things as "new" when they were actually here at ECG '08).


And finally a few of my favourite quotes from the conference:

  • "God is far bigger than any of the boxes we put him in" - Glyn Jones
  • "The opposite of failure isn't risk-free living, it's grace" - Ali Martin
  • "This isn't the end, it's the beginning" - Amy Wyatt

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