One of the best things about the internet is the availability of all types of data. This would include anything from news articles, to online entertainment, to rich media, and even very expensive software. As I had mentioned previously, I remember when I was younger how I downloaded full versions of very expensive software (like [...]

Like you would admit that you didn’t anyways, right…? I remember in High School I had tens of thousands of dollars of software that I didn’t pay for. It was sort of a game to me. “Cracking” the apps and software and video games and using them free of charge. Ah… Then, I was born [...]

A recent study of the the emails within the Lehman Brother‘s organization revealed that a number of phrases within their emails that “helped” investigators flag information and content that uncovered some “bad dealings” within the org. Fantastic strategy, if I do say so myself. Here’s a list of the some of the words they excavated:

The news that Twitter is releasing it’s “official” URL shortener, http://t.co,  is already sweeping across the interwebs and I think the move is both a strategic and helpful one. From their announce post they mentioned how this would provide an extra layer of security so that more “spammy” and harmful links would be filtered out: [...]

No one wants to talk about it, but we have to at times. You see, there comes a time in every churches life when an IT worker has outlived their ability to perform their job. Ouch…! Read on if you dare…

It was brought to my attention by a friend that the Seminary that I attend has announced that they no longer support IE 6. They had the announcement made via the intranet portal. Classy!

The information technology world of ministry and the church is changing rapidly. Actually, I think it might be more of an instance of the Church catching up with the rest of the world. But, in either case we have opportunities for radical changes that are actually healthy for our organizations. But, I’m not sure we [...]

Let’s face the facts and be honest: Many of our actions in our jobs are based on the basic survival instinct. Whether we admit this or not is perhaps a different story… Professionally, we call this maintaining “job security” or perhaps we just call it “doing what we need to do.” And sure, there’s a [...]

Haha. You’ve never done anything like this to your ministry staff, right? Gotchas? So un-Christian-like!

Writing good policies is something every IT admin should learn to do. I’ve seen numerous policies written, but not enforced, and I’ve also seen policies enforced too much. There needs to be a balance in your policy writing and a balance in your enforcement. Here are some tips that I’ve learned through the years…