The continual new versions and annoying nags to upgrade took their toll. With every upgrade I got unwanted desktop, quick launch, and tray icons that I had to delete. The way Firefox interacted with iTunes to play MP3 files was way lame too. Then Apple’s attempt to push out Safari via the iTunes updater was [...]
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Hard to believe it’s been two weeks since the end of MinistryTECH and the CITRT. I still haven’t written the wrap-up post I intended to write the day I got back. Real life stuff has intruded on my blogging time!
The Church IT RoundTable is just, simply, the coolest thing. I always come away charged up [...]
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Those of you following me on Twitter know that my wife got a call at home Wednesday afternoon from Time Warner with the news that we were getting a free upgrade to Road Runner Turbo service, which is nominally 15 Mb/s down and 1 Mb/s up. Most of you are thinking, "sweet!" Very shortly [...]
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Justin Moore writes:
Clif,
Wasn’t it you in one night at a restaurant in Kansas City last fall telling those at your table about how you used to create graphics in assembly on old Apple’s? For some reason I’m thinking it was, so I immediately thought of you when I saw this video.
Even if that [...]
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We began end user training on Arena today as we hurtle towards go live on May 6. Since we need to train 130 people and our class size is limited to 8 students, we’ll be training all day Monday through Friday for the next thee weeks. Jeremy and Leo are sharing the teaching load. Here [...]
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Terry Storch, LifeChurch.tv
Volunteers: Vols are involved in every aspect of Internet Campus: technology, greeting, communications, counseling, missions, etc.
Giving: They have a way to permit people to donate without having an online account. Done via PayPal. They’re working on better UIs for online giving. Difficult to design a system that works equally well for physical campuses [...]
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The Church IT RoundTable Spring 2008 is underway. One of the really cool things at every RoundTable is the sea of laptops. Thanks to Michael Foster of Crossings for hosting and providing the power and bandwidth. We know we KILL the WAN link when we get together.
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Quick notes:
1. Tony’s session this afternoon raised the bar. He was funny and engaging. My mind was too cluttered to live blog it, so I just listened. Good talk. IT does present a lot of paradoxes. Tony thinks success involves holding a lot of things together that seem to be opposite or contradictory. Sounds a [...]
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I presented a break out session at MinistryTECH this afternoon. Jim blogged it. So did Jason.
Ian started playing around with his webcam and realized he could live stream my talk through Ustream. Cool! Brian back at the office got in on the act.
Why do we need advance planning and real-world testing when we can just [...]
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Presenter: Terry Storch, Digerati Pastor at LifeChurch.tv here in Oklahoma City.
Are we idiots for making the transition from secular work to low-paying church work? He was labeled an idiot in 1991 when he became the preschool pastor at Fellowship Church (at that time Fellowship of Las Colinas). Jesus was (and is) looking for idiots.
Jeff [...]
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Quick notes:
1. This is the first time I’ve ever connected to an access point at N speed. I’ve had this laptop for two months and supposedly have N access points at home and the office, but I’ve never actually connected at N speed. Too many other things on my plate to try to troubleshoot why. [...]
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Presenter: Jon Edmiston, Director of IT and Communications at Christ’s Church of the Valley.
More time on solutions, less on infrastructure.
Unlike corporate IT, we can focus just on the customer (congregants). Few mission-critical applications.
Membership system is the core application.
Member data must drive the website.
Single platforms trump disparate but integrated solutions (best in [...]
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EVDO is 704 kb/s down, 197 kb/s up. Ian says the WiFi is 8 Mb/s down and 4 Mb/s up. That actually might be enough for all these laptop-bearing nerds! CORRECTION: Ian says it’s starting to suck wind. We know about that from the Fall 2007 RoundTable!
Presenter is Tony Morgan, Chief Strategic Officer from New [...]
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Quick notes:
1. Jason Lee posted a bunch of pictures from the church tours today. I’m featured prominently in a few.
2. Jim Walton put up a Picasa set. This image features Ian gesturing expansively.
3. Driving from Henderson Hills to lunch we were in the van for around 15 minutes. During that time Jeremie, Matt, [...]
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Quick notes:
1. Good drive down. Great weather in Oklahoma - clear skies, temps in the low 60s.
2. Ian’s cell phone as a mobile WiFi hotspot was a fun, nerdy experiment. Turns out, when doing EVDO and WiFi, the phone consumes more power than can be supplied by Ian’s car charger. After two hours of more-or-less [...]
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I’m expecting to see a bunch of losers in Oklahoma City this week at MinistryTECH and the RoundTable! (Click the link if you don’t get the reference.) Ian, Matt, and I are getting in the van and making the short, five-hour drive this afternoon. We’re picking up Jason Lee’s crew at the OKC [...]
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