This week we finished the process of converting our year-old Dell 2950 server previously running Win2K3 x64 to our new VMware ESX insfrastructure. We had SQL Server 2005 on that server and virtualized it. Unfortunately, we saw a Shelby performance drop around 50% when we moved the database to the new virtualized server [...]
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Jim Walton posted this morning about technology vision for the church.
My thinking on this rests on two important principles:
1. Mission/Vision alignment is more important than any clever statement you might create.
2. Too often, mission/vision/purpose statements are “we” centric. They talk more about “us” and what “we” do than they do about those we serve.
To illustrate, [...]
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Seth Godin says most successful organizations are driven by something. Then he goes on to list a number of drivers. So I’m reading the list and nodding, when suddenly, this jumps out:
SUBSCRIPTION DRIVEN: How do we transform a stranger into someone who uses what we do, all the time. Intuit, certainly.
(He means that the company [...]
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My boss took me and my senior staff peers in the Operations Division bowling a couple of weeks ago. What a nerdy looking group! Turns out, Kelly was a bowler in high school, so she smoked us. I broke 100 both games, which isn’t bad considering it’s been a few years since [...]
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I got some good smartphone advice when I asked for it a few weeks ago. Thanks to all of you who commented. Despite that good advice, I am still undecided. Here are my priorities (in this order):
1. Must work with Sprint service
2. Must be able to do EVDO Rev. A
3. Must be able to [...]
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Er, I would have gotten your e-mail about SonicWALL acquiring Aventail, except my SonicWALL anti-spam software (MailFrontier) junked it!
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The memorial service for Kelsey Smith was this afternoon.
Nick Kastelan, one of the guys in our media department (Saving Grace Productions – SGP), had worked in TV news in Kansas City before joining our staff. He and Peter Metz, our Director of Communications, handled media relations for the visitation last night and the service today. [...]
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I mentioned that my wife, Laura, was the only pastor present on Wednesday afternoon when Kelsey’s family learned that she had been found murdered. A few minutes later, pastors from the Smith’s church, Hillcrest Covenant, arrived. Laura quietly suggested to them that when it came time to begin discussing memorial service plans, the family should [...]
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We built a site that went from launch to the #5 search term on Google and then to obsolete in three days. Here’s the (updated) story …
The first version of the Kelsey Smith website, made by a family friend on Monday and hosted at sitesled.com, was barely more than a web version of the “have [...]
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Where do I begin?
Many of you no doubt have already heard that Kelsey Smith was found murdered today. My wife, Laura, was at the Smith home when the detectives came with the news that a body had been found and it was likely Kelsey. The identification was later confirmed. Laura and my daughter, Beth, are [...]
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My daughter, Beth, was in band at Shawnee Mission West High School with Kelsey Smith, the 18 year-old girl apparently abducted from a Target parking lot here in Overland Park on Saturday night. The band has a very active parents’ organization called Band Aides West. Within 12 hours of Kelsey’s disappearance, Band Aids was taking [...]
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