Dear Reader, Thank you for taking the time to read and subscribe to my blog. Without you I would just be talking to myself, and my wife would think I’m crazier than she already does. I love technology and using it to further God’s kingdom, and sharing it with you makes it even better! For […]

Back in early 2005, Google created rel=”nofollow” as something to help stop comment spam on blogs. I was blogging elsewhere back then, and remember all the excitement. It hasn’t worked. The Akismet plugin for WordPress takes the cake for spam catching as far as I’m concerned, and nofollow hasn’t really lived up to expectations. That’s […]

Out of the terrible tragedy of the murdered Kelsey Smith in Kansas, Clif Guy over at The Appian Way (host of this fall’s Church IT Roundtable) has an extremely interesting post that gives a behind the scenes peek at how they built the findkelsey.com website (inaccessible to me as I write this, but it’s in […]

I’ve been using Mozilla Thunderbird for quite some time for reading RSS feeds. The RSS functionality has improved in each new version, and there are a couple of features that have kept me from changing (I tried a bunch of feed readers, web-based and thick client, before settling on Thunderbird, which I also use for […]

FeedBurner has officially been acquired by Google, which has been going around the rumor mill for at least a couple of weeks. This is very cool, my main desire is to see FeedBurner subscriber counts next to my Google Analytics stats, but that’s yet to be seen. But I don’t think it’s very far-fetched. They […]

Work was crazy leading up to our new building’s grand opening.  The good part?  We made it!  We had a major advertising supplement in the local paper, which was copied on their website.  Our Marketing and Communications department released our new website design in time..  However, while not “bad,” things have actually gotten crazier since then.  […]

Next week is the second Church IT Roundtable in Houston, TX. Unfortunately, for a variety of reasons I’m unable to attend this one, but I guess that just means that while all the other Church IT bloggers are hanging out in person, I get to TAKE OVER THE CHURCH IT BLOGOSPHERE! For a few days, […]

The official WordPress development blog is reporting that WordPress version 2.1.1 was compromised by a malicious hacker and anyone who downloaded that version in the past several days needs to upgrade immediately to version 2.1.2. Many more details at that link; I checked the two files they mentioned (feed.php and theme.php in the wp-includes folder) […]