Why did I launch clifguy.com and then not blog for 6 weeks? trip to Florida to meet with Christ Fellowship and Flamingo Road personal briefcase/laptop bag stolen lost my assistant Amy (promoted to the executive suite – good for her, bad for me!) interviewed for and hired Amy’s replacement several staff teams moving from one [...]
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June 17-19 Chuck Russell and I visited South Florida to benchmark the Internet Campuses of Christ Fellowship and Flamingo Road. When we arrived at the Palm Beach airport, I hit a snag totally of my own making. Somehow I forgot that I had carried my bag on to the plane whereas Chuck had checked his. [...]
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Eight years ago I hired a software developer in his low 20s, straight out of college. He had a cell phone but no land line at home. It was quite weird at the time, but was the start of a trend. The number of land lines in use in the US has dropped every year [...]
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I’m in Oklahoma City with Chuck Russell, Brian Slezak, and Andrew Conard to benchmark LifeChurch’s Internet Campus by observing them in action and by meeting with Terry Storch (Digerati Pastor) and Brandon Donaldson (Internet Campus Pastor). Our day began with attending the 10:00 service (“experience” in LifeChurch parlance) at the Edmond campus where the Global [...]
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Following up on Tony’s question: “is your role more of a CIO, or a CTO?” here is a post on point by Jason Hiner of Tech Republic.
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Pastor Andrew Conard of our congregational care team at Resurrection is in a series of posts about the “business side” of the church. I started to compose a comment to his post on technology and ended up with a post of my own. So here are my thoughts in response to Andrew. A local congregation [...]
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Welcome readers of The Appian Way to my new blog home, Clif Guy all the time at clifguy.com. Take a look around and you’ll notice that I’ve imported all of my own posts from The Appian Way. The photos are still stored at Blogger/Google, but most linked over and are displaying properly. My RSS feed [...]
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I bought gas at the Phillips 66 station in Parkville last night. The van tank holds approximately 23 gallons and it was nearly empty. Price was $3.799, so that’s an $85 fill up. Towards the end of the fill up, I noticed the flow slow and then stop exactly on $75. Apparently the pump had [...]
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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 after [...]
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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 [...]
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