BEST WIFE!!!

Ever since we moved into the new house, i've wanted to do something about the 20" TV that we've been using. On top of that, i've also wanted something slightly larger than the 12" quasar that we have in the kids play room (it's in a VERY convinient location to watch while working around the house).

We looked around for a while right after moving, but never ended up doing anything. I decided to start looking around again, and had started watching some items on ebay, when my wife found this a great deal on craigslist!!

I emailed about 10 minutes after they posted it, and was one of 10 emails. I was able to get there last night and am now in posession of a 32" JVC tv. It's not fully setup YET, but here's how it looks on my entertainment center.

HOME STRETCH!!!

Well, I started my new class on html last night--- and it looks like it will be a real winner ;-).

I also have GREAT news!!! i found out that if everything goes according to schedule, i will be done with school on OCTOBER 8th!!!!.


so i'm totally stoked

Swing of things

After spending a GREAT weekend visiting friends in indiana, i am back to the salt mines. It was great to catch up with friends--- it's hard to believe how time flys.


Here's a pic of the crew:

New Office

A little while back, i mentioned that they built me a server room at work. I've been moved in for a while and was waiting to clean the place up before taking pictures, but i realize that's probably never going to happen. Here's the before pic once again:

And Here's Some Pics from Now:

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google pagerank

In an effort to boost pagerank of some work projects i'm currently working on:

http://www.itiglobal.com
http://www.ie-e.com
http://www.belttesting.com
http://www.vpcharts.com

Killing Cockroaches

Tony Morgan has an Interesting post that he titles 'killing cockroaches'.

His basic principle revolves around how your daily time is spent. He is generally referring to a pastoral position, using a business example:

"So, the moral of the story is this: you get to decide where your time
goes. You can spend it moving forward. Or, you can spend it putting out fires.
You get to decide. If you don't decide, others will decide for you. Then you,
too, will be stuck reacting to the urgent."

As the IT Manager for a smaller company, i 'kill cockroaches' every day. I don't consider it a detriment to my work-- as a member of any team (even if you are the 'lead' member [ceo] ) it is imperitive to accomplish the tasks that are at hand in a timely fashion, while managing the overal vision of the organization. Proper leadership knows when to delegate and when to get out the bug spray.

More importantly, our CEO wears more hats throughout the day than i care to count. If his job was split to allow him to concentrate on specific aspects of managing the company, the result would be 10 additional employees (20-30% increase) which would equal a significant increase in overhead cost.

My point is, that no matter what position you hold in life, the position that 'this is my job this is what i do, i won't do anythign else' doesn't provide for cohesive and productive teams(whether it be in church, business or household activities)

Myspace and the Church

One of my daily reads, Church Marketing Sucks, has been running a series on web 2.0. They have a great post on myspace.

it is a good reinforcement that every new frontier needs missionaries willing to invest in that frontier.



[church]       [christianity]       [marketing]       [myspace]       [outreach]      

Web 2.0

CMS has a great post on WEB 2.0 It is definetly awesome to see the possibilities of this new mindset--- and it is just that, the technology for these noted things have existed for years, it just took a new approach to make a truely interactive web expierience.


It is important for the church to dive into this as a new mission field, because as much as we see the ministry potential of blogs, and other web 2.0 components-- there will always be those who see the flip side of the coin. This means a new avenue for child predators or another way for kids hide things from their parent (read: myspace.com) .

As a side note, i think it is sad to see what high schoolers are doing behind closed doors and allowing the world to see through the internet--- even more sad may be that their parents have NO idea.



[myspace] [web 2.0] [Marketing] [Interaction]

now i've seen it all


i mean


i knew google was doing EVERYTHING nowadays....


but who woulda thought of THIS