Yesterday I got to drive down to Monett to pick up some server hardware that was donated to the church. None of it is brand-spanking new, but it's going to make for a pretty nice setup. We were given a 42U rack cabinet, and four IBM x346 servers. The servers don't have any drives or a RAID card (just the …
Nearly a day of content every minute on YouTube
I just read this interesting article over at TechCrunch about the amount of video being uploaded to YouTube every minute. In January it was 15 hours/minute, now it's 20 hours/minute. It will soon cross the one day mark. At 20 hours of video it's nearly 50 days of content uploaded every hour and 3.2 years of content every day. If …
Five Spring Lessons
I've learned a lot this spring. Not all of the lessons have been fun, but they're all important. I thought I'd share a bit what's been going on in my life. Lesson One: I don't have time to take two classes. Last spring I did fine with two classes, but as the courses get more difficult and my pastoral role …
Q 2009 – Initial Thoughts
I've been in Austin this week for Q, a conference that brings together leaders to discuss how the church, culture, future and Gospel all relate. The event brings together people from numerous spheres of influence, slightly more than half were primarily connected to the church. Over the course of three days we heard 18 minute presentations on topics ranging from …
NetNewsWire Makes Reading Blogs Fun Again
I've been a long supporter of reading blogs in some sort of aggregator. For a long time I used Bloglines to collect, organize, and read feeds. My main goal for using it had been to have access from any computer in a format that I liked. I tried out a lot of different web-based feed readers, but Bloglines worked best …
Easter 2009
Finally feeling somewhat recovered from the insanity that is Holy Week and Easter around here. I stupidly added up how much I've been here and last Wednesday to today involved more than 80 hours. Yikes! Thursday – Sunday involved five different worship experiences at six different times. Over the course of the weekend we had several firsts. It was our …
Rebuilding New Orleans – Spring Break Mission Trip
I spent last week with a group from the Schweitzer college ministry doing hurricane recovery work in the New Orleans area. We worked with Northshore Disaster Recovery to do the work along with students from several other schools in Missouri. We worked with nearly 100 college students rebuilding houses destroyed by Katrina. Our group worked on putting up vinyl siding, …
Eric Cartman & Cultural Attitudes
Last night at The Green Room we continued our series about prayer talking about how we find rest in Christ and how when we find that rest we take on the attitude of Christ as described by Paul in Philippians 2. This is in contrast to the attitudes of our culture. I had a lot of fun in expressing the …
Talking about Dating
At The Green Room we're wrapping up a series about dating this weekend. It's been a great couple of weeks talking about relationships. I wanted to write down some of my thoughts from the past two weeks of messages about having healthy relationships. The first week we covered knowing yourself and knowing God. This past weekend we talked about tips …
Connect 2009
I spent last weekend at a retreat for college students from across Missouri. I've got to say it was a great event. Our speakers, Bill Stephens and Janie Stuart did a workshop for campus ministers on Friday before the event, and we had music from Don Chaffer. I'm usually pretty skeptical of MO Conference training events, but was very pleased …
25 Random Things About Me
Rules: Once you have been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits or goals about you. At the end choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you it's because I want to know more about you. 1. Like many others I wasn't …
MacGruber/Pepsuber Advertising
This past weekend as we were watching SNL I actually rewound the DVR to watch a commercial. Later in the episode we kept watching commercials just to see if there were more installments. Turns out there were. These ads are the best product integration as Jack Donaghy would put it. They're so tightly matched with the sketch from SNL that …