Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings

Weekly Twitter Roundup

Last weeks tweets filtered for mainly IT content...

9/22/08

• 10:24 Day off work to-do list=rake yard, S-Corp doc tweaks, bank stuff, setup new home PC, buy/install ceiling fan. Guess I should start soon :-)
• 18:44 twitpic.com/crgn - Blue eyed girlie

9/23/08

• 09:12 2wks until we fly out for the Seacoast Church IT Roundtable. It's morbid to think about but Kim and I want/need a will done before we leave.
• 15:01 Got my tickets all acted on 2day, worked on more PM stuff, now trying to get inbox back down to 20 from 200 since Innovate storm last week
• 16:58 @mbsnick We went with ultimate on the laptops for the drive encryption, but it's major pain. So Vista biz would be my recommendation.
• 17:00 Giving XOBNI a try again. It really dogged my laptop when it first came out so I axed it. Hopefully it's much improved now?
• 21:11 Setting up new family PC & upgrading 2 Vista Ultimate. 4+ years since we've had a new PC. Hope to get my wife into the online social ...
• 22:35 Downloading new Lincoln Brewster album to the Zune. God bless subscription music!

9/24/08

• 12:49 twitpic.com/cywp - Staff geeked about getting their self checkin tags today!
• 17:21 Booo. Someone from Dell please tell me we can somehow create volumes bigger than 2TB on the MD3000i? Please?
• 18:03 @jeremyscheller GCC IT Best Practices Guide tinyurl.com/3r9fro Enjoy!
• 20:29 Self check-in phase1 rolled out tonight. The people I saw using it gave it 2 thumbs up.

9/25/08

• 07:24 Wow, got up to a bunch of birthday well wishers. Thanks ya'll :-) Now if only this sore throat would leave my be.
• 07:52 Never a good helpdesk support request to see "I need the 0 drive installed on my machine" .. ruh roh!
• 07:56 My wife is now on twitter. Welcome @kimpowell if you get a chance.
• 08:03 Happy anniv to @gotmoore and @wantmoore! You picked a great day to get married ;-)
• 11:39 Wonder if hot wings for lunch will help my sore throat? Looking forward to finding out. WingsETC at noon!
• 14:07 Wings were great..my throat actually feels a bit better believe it or not. @kimpowell even joined us 2day!
• 18:07 Afternoon of network traffic analysis at GCC then Seacoast CITRT planning conf call with @tracep @tonydye @clifguy and Jason Lee.
• 19:14 twitpic.com/d5yx - I'm 371 yrs old!
• 23:58 Good BDAY despite the sore throat. I'm still laughing at the battlestar galactica photoshop pic. twitpic.com/d3mq

9/26/08

• 09:21 New blog post: GCC IT Roundtable Recap bit.ly/4FUKKH
• 17:38 twitpic.com/dbj5 - Birthday $ equals ...
• 18:00 twitpic.com/dbnx - Day full of project management talk. We've landed on our solution and will refine as we go.

9/27/08

• 10:18 @ebusby Who do we engage at Saddleback about getting their involvement in our Church IT Roundtable events?
• 10:35 Spending some time on Facebook to respond to wall messages and invites.
• 20:09 twitpic.com/dk91 - Group of core elkhart campus volunteers take stage to be commissioned by Beeson and GCC

9/28/08

• 11:44 Making the switch from yahoo music to rhapsody for Jacob. Very happy all the songs and playlists transferred over. w00t!!
• 16:06 Retweet @wantmoore: twitpic.com/dog1 - The new Mary Poppins starring @jasonpowell
• 16:19 twitpic.com/dooo Other duties as assigned?????

Weekly Twitter Roundup

Last weeks tweets filtered for mainly IT content...

9/15/08

• 00:23 3rd week straight keeping inbox under 20. My newer inbox rules (40+) are really helping.
• 08:29 @tpmorgan Freemind is pretty good, but it's worth the fee for MindManager..and you can get academic pricing if you inquire. Congrats on Zak
• 09:17 @anthonycoppedge Have you used Mindjet's Connect to do any collaboration yet? Trying to locate some peeps actually using it 4 feedback.
• 09:47 A certain staff member keeps storing (we hope by accident?) many large AVI files from popular TV shows on our servers. Punishment ideas?
• 09:57 @jermtech LOL. No spam filter for a week sounds like a great idea!
• 10:41 @kemmeyer Remember IT is a "drama free" zone ... except for certain cases ;-)
• 11:48 twitpic.com/boxo - Must B time 4 Innovate. Just lost a drive on our main fileserv. Bad stuff always happens each yr at this time
• 13:56 twitpic.com/bpgr - Big tent is online
• 14:49 twitpic.com/bppf - MD3000i has arrived! It's much shorter depth wise than I imagined.
• 14:56 @DerekSchwab pulled a drive from a test server ... so far so good on RAID rebulid
• 17:29 @anthonycoppedge Apple Enterprise support has a LONG way to go to be called enterprise worthy
• 17:54 IT dept biting our tongues very hard..talk about a day of getting kicked around from many sides. Let's see what 2morrow brings. Time 4 home.
• 18:08 Heading home cancel..RPC issues
• 18:43 RPC email issues fixed. NOW I can head home?
• 18:45 twitpic.com/bqvt - More bad..our backup tape autoloader died this morning. A replacement was sent and it 2 is DOA. Wheeee

9/16/08

• 08:15 Rats! Journey classes really goofing up my plans for GCC IT Roundtable tomorrow. No place for dinner onsite. Oversight on my part.
• 10:05 Could REALLY use your prayers. Main fileserver won't boot this morning.
• 10:20 Fileserver RAID troubles. Joy. I wondered yesterday if it could get any worse. Answer = RESOUNDING YES! Guess Satan is ticked about Innovate
• 10:34 CITRT peeps coming to GCC today. I'm going to ask you not bother Ed or Justin 2day until we get things back online. Sorry.
• 11:03 Giant GOLD stars for Dell server support. This server is way out of warranty and they are still helping with gusto.
• 11:19 Kudos to GCC staffers. They are extending grace as best they can even though this is a critical down and impacting their work.
• 11:32 twitpic.com/btg4 - Server is crippled but alive..now to copy off files in case we loose yet another local disk
• 11:40 twitpic.com/bth9 - IBM ovrnghtd another backup tape loader..Ed's working to bring it online so we have access to backup data
• 12:06 Comm/Web team is bring us lunch! Team rules!
• 12:32 twitpic.com/btpd - Thank you! To our awesome teammates!
• 13:27 Backup tape unit lives! Kudos to Ed! At least now we can get access to data sitting on tapes if needed. Fileserver VM now being created.
• 13:30 GCC staff needing a critical file or 2 ASAP email me directly. "might" be able to get you what you seek.
• 13:48 twitpic.com/bu0r - Just checked the room setup 4 roundtable 2morrow. Needs more wifi signal.
• 15:24 twitpic.com/bufj - Dean is here!
• 16:03 Copying files from old server to SAN. Getting ready to start some testing to see what works/is broke.
• 16:20 Boo..user drives not mapping correctly yet.
• 17:01 GCC CITRT peeps - we're planning to met at Moe's at 6pm. Informal time to hang out and eat. Pay your own way. address: bit.ly/2TvKCL
• 17:03 THANK YOU JESUS! New virtual fileserver online and sharing out user files. Other shared drives copying but will take good 6+ hrs to finish
• 17:21 CITRT Spouses are invited to Moe's 2nite. Come meet the Powell fam
• 17:29 twitpic.com/buyq - Couple CITRT peeps showed up in our office this evening
• 18:40 twitpic.com/bvag - Welcome to Moe's! CITRT and food is good!
• 19:53 So proud of my team today. We prayed over the server/situation first then focused in and worked the problem like a machine. TEAM++
• 20:48 Shoot. New server just stopped replying to pings.
• 21:07 Virtual Disk Errors = not going home yet
• 21:57 Bonus of working at GCC late. I get to hear all the rehearsal for Innovate. Wow! People are going to love the music!
• 22:12 Server back online. File copies continue and thinking about PLAN B
• 22:51 Heading home..back on site by 7am. Praying new VM has no glitches overnight.
• 22:52 @jeffwilson Yup! Every year something huge blows up right before Innovate regardless of our planning.
• 23:43 Melatonin in..hope for Zzz quickly. Despite recent issues I'm PUMPED for next 3 days at GCC. God is ALIVE & at work. How big is God? SO BIG!

9/17/08

• 06:33 up at 6am?! Now showered and ready to head in. Innovate is here!
• 07:43 Good news=fileserver still cranking. Bad=files STILL copying from old server and some share links not working. Now some email issues.
• 07:44 @deanlisenby HAPPY BIRTHDAY old dude! Glad you are sharing it with us LIVE today :-)
• 07:52 GCC CITRT peeps use #citrt today to post today's roundtable tweets.
• 07:53 Here's where to follow everyone's roundtable tweets today: search.twitter.com/search?q=citrt
• 09:08 twitpic.com/bxi1 - #citrt morning foodage thanks to Justin and Dave Mast
• 10:32 twitpic.com/bxrj - #citrt roundtable peeps
• 10:33 #citrt Great morning thus far. Room full of geeks talking about IT and serving the Kingdom. Love it!
• 10:40 twitpic.com/bxsi - #citrt Here's our list of topics to discuss today. Wonder how many we'll get through?
• 13:04 #citrt LUNCH was yum! Lots of talk about storage, backups, data, DR, BC, risk ... stretching the brain :-)
• 20:04 Great day with #citrt peeps..brain stretched very well. Hope to see many of these folks again at Seacoast in a few weeks.
• 20:22 Had checkin issues AGAIN tonight..GRRRR. Bandwidth maxed out yet again. Gotta figure out QOS on the Sonicwall.
• 20:52 Big thanks to @deanlisenby for #citrt dinner 2nite and thanks to Arena folks for the sweet CITRT black T-shirts.
• 20:53 Going to walk the building and make sure all the vendors setting up are happy..then heading home..before 10pm? I think it's possible!
• 22:49 Anyone with Sonicwall QOS setup experience? We got a 4060 that we need to QOS for F1 kiosk traffic and bookstore ACH traffic. Help us :-)
• 22:51 @timlytle it's a 4060 a few years old. Would love your input on ways to make checkin even better through the FW.
• 22:52 @austinmc Would love your input on QOS setup.
• 23:07 Got to meet @tiffanibarnes tonight and reconnect with @JeffPelletier. Life is so much about connections. I need to do a better job at it.
• 23:08 @jeremygood Thanks for coming to GCC #citrt

9/18/08

• 08:48 twitpic.com/c28t - INNOVATE08! GO!
• 09:01 @dszp thanks for coming to GCC #citrt Look forward to seeing you again in a few weeks
• 09:13 To follow ALL the innovate08 tweets you have to search both 'innovate' and 'innovate08' like so: bit.ly/1c4mxh
• 09:25 @vanncThanks for the report on the wifi. We wish it was even faster 4 ya. Just wait 'til next year :-)
• 09:34 Time to setup the internet cafe for #innovate08
• 10:22 Retweet @wantmoore: Our WAN link for public wifi is performing insanely well. twitpic.com/c2fb
• 10:48 twitpic.com/c2mu - #innovate08 Here's today's agenda. I'm leading 2 IT Q&A sessions. Will anyone come?
• 11:08 twitpic.com/c2p9 - #innovate08 band is BRINGING it. Van Halen solo was stellar!
• 11:08 twitpic.com/c2pa - #innovate08 IMAG director bustin' it to give everyone great shots on the big screens
• 11:12 Ok, I'm a moron for thinking I could fit the Church IT Podcast into the schedule today. Gotta cancel. Rats. Sorry all.
• 11:12 twitpic.com/c2pz - #innovate08 GCC teams that get all the kewl stuff on the screens
• 11:12 twitpic.com/c2q0 - #innovate08 GCC lighting operators
• 15:23 #innovate08 Just finished up 2 IT Q&A sessions 12:30-3pm. Met new peeps. Surprise that storage was a hot topic during each? Nope!
• 15:33 twitpic.com/c3vt - @innovate08 Photo from this mornings "Church is on Fire!" drama.
• 18:15 @innovate08 Great Day 1! Hope the guest wifi worked well for everyone.
• 20:22 reminder: No Church IT Podcast tonight. #citrt

9/19/08

• 06:32 aaarrrrr, Mateys! It's International Talk Like a Pirate Day! bit.ly/1zXnwX
• 07:48 twitpic.com/c72h - @innovate08 I think @deanlisenby and the ACS crew win the most creative vendor both award
• 09:06 #innovate08 OUCH! You guys are hammering our guest wifi this morning! 50 of you on 1 access point! No wonder I couldn't connect that one :-)
• 09:12 #innovate08 121 wifi users currently.
• 12:13 Retweet @amitry: twitpic.com/c7y6 - Samuel and his mom! CONGRATS TO the Mitry family on their new arrival!
• 12:41 twitpic.com/c87o - I really wish we could buy one of these Fluke network devices. It's verifying we need all the AV gear in it's ...
• 16:00 twitpic.com/c9bw - #innovate08 Outside wifi tent coverage brought to you by this ghettotastic access point cover
• 20:48 Just finished dinner with @deanlisenby of ACS. Dean is just a great guy to hang with and chat about life and some IT. Thanks bro. U Rock!

9/20/08

• 10:35 Gotta fix mower today! It's now been 2 weeks since last cut! Kids getting lost in yard lately.
• 14:25 twitpic.com/cf93 - Proof my grass is outta control! After 2 more stops at store, mower lives. Now 2 make hay.
• 21:28 @JeannaMiller We put new firmware on the wifi access points for Innovate. Apparently kiosks didn't like it. Ed put the prior stuff back on.
• 22:56 Upgraded to Zune 3.0 today. Sweet firmware features like browse and listen to entire Zune marketplace library over wifi. bit.ly/sGl79

9/21/08

• 09:40 twitpic.com/cl81 - @kemmeyer checking in her kiddos at our elkhart checkin station. Preview weekend #2 under way!

Weekly Twitter Roundup

This past weeks tweets filtered for mainly IT content for your viewing pleasure...

9/8/08

• 09:12 bit.ly/4xhqXy Perimeter Church is looking for an IT Director. Looks like Tony Dye is moving elsewhere.
• 09:45 Inbox pruning, Manowe and FiveStar google apps transition planning, and now I'm ready to actually head into the office.
• 11:50 Listening to our soon-to-be new on-hold music at GCC. It's actually pretty good. Would make good background tunes 2. bit.ly/4pvxLs
• 14:54 Got a very strong natural gas smell in our office space (no we did NOT eat Mexican). We are now working downstairs so we don't Xplode.
• 15:11 twitpic.com/aroo - GCC IT relocation space ... These chairs are nice!
• 17:26 Odor went away and nobody could determine where/why. Oh well. Ordered a bunch a cables to continue color coding our IDFs.

9/9/08

• 00:11 Doing monthly-ish Pruning of my facebook inbox.
• 11:40 twitpic.com/aurh - Some daddy daughter time..sick kiddo is on the couch watchin Clifford
• 12:25 Interesting..new SaaS offerings from Dell bit.ly/762tP Hopefully they are good AND inexpensive. Please??
• 13:09 I can tell it's one week until GCC's Innovate Conf..the email flurry is up SEVERAL notches today!
• 14:02 Justin just suggested we make an IT Flannelgraph for network documentation ... LOL!
• 14:03 twitpic.com/avdr - Had 2 bring in someone from media dept to copy my whiteboard drawing :)
• 14:40 w00t! Got final approval to order a 15TB Dell MD3000i. Ping me if you're looking to buy Dell storage. I got da hookups via VR6systems.com
• 15:47 twitpic.com/avus - New drobo arrives for our AV guys to test..interesting packaging
• 15:52 twitpic.com/avvr - The drobo has a magnetic faceplate..interesting
• 15:55 twitpic.com/avw1 - The sweet studer board lit up. The drobo will find it's new home in this room.
• 16:49 Another afternoon of Elkhart kiosk tasks. Working on getting the router config'd for remote access and remote client management.
• 17:23 twitpic.com/aw87 - Is it just me or is a clean whiteboard inspiring! Almost has mystical properties :)
• 22:06 Planning final trip details for Seacoast IT Roundtable. Maybe leave Tue 8:22am return Sat 7:04am(yuk!) and staying at Courtyard Marriot. Hmm
• 23:32 The Large Hadron Collider, the largest and most expensive scientific instrument ever built, goes online tomorrow. Half-Life here we come :-)

9/10/08

• 18:52 twitpic.com/b0q6 - 1st every journey classes at gcc. This is just 1 of 3 classes happening 2nite
• 19:44 Had major check-in and bookstore issues tonight cause internet pipe was maxed out. Time to start QOS and putting the clamp down on access.
• 21:15 Doing another night of IT stuff at GCC. Yes, network stuff will down here and there tonight.
• 23:28 Wrapping up our work night. Got ESXi running on some old Dell 2650's and continued color coding IDF cables in racks.

9/11/08

• 00:46 Remote troubleshooting with @wantmoore @ebuford. Appears Radius is down at GCC. My call? No email/VPN until tomorrow morning ETA 8:30am.
• 08:35 Email flowage hath returned to GCC ... and there was much rejoicing
• 10:49 Off to find 2 Verizon EVDO cards. Hope Best Buy has what I want.
• 12:03 waited in line at best buy 2 B told not in stock..now at verizon having awesome customer experience.
• 13:17 twitpic.com/b3l5 - A few extra goodies came with our 4060 :)
• 13:18 twitpic.com/b3l8 - Got a used 4060 from R humorous friends at Northwoods ..note the ship to address :)
• 16:30 OMW these dance moves are OFF THE HOOK! bit.ly/3OZueq HT thejrod
• 17:36 twitpic.com/b4qs - Innovate must be coming..Ed's cleaning his desk!
• 18:58 FYI new improved version of WMwifiRouter now available. Turn your phone into a wifi router for several laptops. bit.ly/3lT6e1
• 19:44 Finally purchased airline tickets for me, my wife, @ebuford, @wantmoore for Church IT Roundtable at Seacoast Church. U coming? www.CITRT.org
• 19:58 I feel better now..my blog got a score of 95/100! :-) bit.ly/4bOr88 Some vindication for my B- twitter grade.

9/12/08

• 01:05 Gotta find a sitter for tomorrow night. Need a night out alone with my gal. It's been many months.Must make"Date your mate" high priority
• 08:41 Waking brain for 9am conf call with my Dell/EqualLogic channel reps. Trying to setup a marketing event in Northern IN. Steak and storage
• 10:56 Just finished 2 back2back phone confs..both with Dell..both about storage..both very different aspects. Crossing fingers GCC 2 be beta site.
• 15:50 Date night with Mrs Powell is a GO thanks to @gotmoore and @wantmoore. Red Lobster shirmp on radar for dinner then maybe movie then maybe...
• 17:45 Praying for church IT friends in the path of Ike and getting ready for date night. Oh, what to wear, what to wear.
• 19:44 twitpic.com/baiu - The remains of date night dinner. We are stuffed! Many sea creatures gave their lives 4 us.
• 22:40 Date night over. Land's End had crazy clearance sales. We closed out the mall with a bag of nice cheap clothes. Look 4ward 2 next date night
• 22:42 Also thanks to @wantmoore and @gotmoore for watching R kids! Our kids luv u guys .. and so do we

9/13/08

• 09:24 Getting ready to head 2 GCC for some IT work with @wantmoore @dhannifin and Tom Templin. I think it's been raining non-stop since last night
• 13:57 2pm..heading home from work morning. All AP's on lastest firmware, SSLVPN chat, SCE learning, WSS templates, Kiosk checks. Volunteers rock!
• 22:50 Thanks to @dhannifin think I've found our new Project Management app..nifty FREE sharepoint template we can tweak bit.ly/yQXiO

9/14/08

• 08:55 twitpic.com/bjdl - Couple hundred volunteers here this morning for the dry run of our Elkhart campus..can u say buzz in the in?!
• 10:40 twitpic.com/bjol - Child checkin was flawless this morning. And these new collapsable kiosks rock!
• 13:11 @ddoell Coming to Innovate? Cornerstonecabinetry.net will have them on display. I'll do a blog post soon about them and our portable setup
• 14:07 Help a fellow CITRT'er Retweet @cgreentx: Anyone within driving distance of Houston willing to deliver a generator?
• 14:46 Watch Nascar and hoping to catch a nap soon so I can brainstorm this evening about everything my team has to get ready for Innovate Weds-Fri
• 18:22 Nap over..feel a little better. Now for some diet coke to get me wired up for later tonight. Much MUCH 2 do over next 2 days, but worth it.
• 21:29 Tony Dye is starting twitter again? twitter.com/tonydye
• 23:40 Anyone using Mindjet's "Connect" for team collaboration? Looks pretty slick and we already use MindManager. bit.ly/4miX36

Weekly Twitter Roundup

This past weeks tweets filtered for mainly IT content for your viewing pleasure...

8/24/08

• 00:29 Checking into early termination fees of our 2 line Verizon contract and looking at ATT plans. The fruitPhone is bidding me come..I might
• 01:16 Booo..just learned the iPhone can't tether to your laptop for internet access..unless you hack it. What the? That's a HUGE negative 2 me.hmm
• 00:05 @churchmedic check these posts out..should be a couple good posts for getting your CITRT going..scroll away! bit.ly/4joGRO
• 00:06 @jeffhook Thou shalt not speak unfavorably towards the Great Fruit. Repent now!

8/25/08

• 00:46 @churchmedic yup, we're hoping to do something with subdomains of citrt.org ... I don't own it so trying to figure that piece out still
• 01:05 Friday is our first Elkhart campus onsite test run of our new checkin thins via Verizon broadband..assuming we can get them ready in time.
• 11:30 Dell came WAY down on MD3000i pricing after seeing my Promise VTM610i quote. w00t! Archival storage purchase decision coming shortly.
• 12:17 @davesacre We're using a ZyXEL broadband router and Proxim a/b/g PCI cards in the thins. We'll know soon if it works well :-)
• 13:30 Looking into travel options and hotel for the Fall Church IT Roundtable in Charleston. Wife says she IS coming with :-)
• 14:06 Major F1 checkin roadblock! Can't install .NET3 on our new HP XPe thins! Invalid 32bit app. Anyone got .Net3 running in XPe? Anyone???
• 14:37 @timlytle Yikes! They are talking about MS tools I've never heard of.
• 15:12 Color me IMPRESSED! Fellowship Tech has one of their IT dudes in our Church IT IRC chatroom to help with .net issue. Talk about service!
• 19:14 twitpic.com/91ir - Sonic is Ashlee approved! :)
• 23:41 More MD3000i research. Does it store the array configs on the drives or on the controllers..hoping the controllers

8/26/08

• 09:34 Just gave up my WSS site collection authority to @wantmoore..ahhh, passing the baton is good :-)
• 11:40 bit.ly/1nJGKn Using TreeSizePro to sift though user shares to figure out where all our storage space is being used/abused. Great tool
• 12:12 stopping backups of mp3,m4a,wma,wav,avi,mov,mpg,vob,mp4,wmv,aif files. These were taking up a ton of space we just don't have.
• 14:03 Retweet @wantmoore: twitpic.com/93ye -These HP t5730 thin clients are not so thin once you install the expansion module for PCI cards
• 14:14 Moving 22,000 jpgs out of 1 users 'my pictures' folder to a temp holding area.
• 16:35 Retweet @wantmoore: twitpic.com/94iq - F1 checkin working on XPe! Big thanks to @sidemory from FTech for hanging in IRC to help!
• 16:48 @curtissimmons just Windows for now ... though a linux version would be sweet ;-) Thanks for all the help.
• 17:12 Great way to end the work day. Checkin thins finally working! Next step - broadband router configs.
• 18:03 @kemmeyer yes, IT team rocked it today.
• 22:07 Rockband on XBOX live anyone? JudiciousJason is my tag

8/27/08

• 08:54 Off to Uptown Kitchen to meet with the Dell/EqualLogic storage guys. Hopefully I'll get some new NDA stuff :-)
• 10:50 twitpic.com/975o - A little new checkin hardware show N tell. Autocut printers rule!
• 23:35 Rockband anyone? JudiciousJason is me tag

8/28/08

• 09:15 @kjellnygren We use Service Desk Plus bit.ly/2Jd70H
• 09:52 Church Tech Biggest Loser 2 ends today. I didn't loose any, but a number of people did. Excited to see the final results at days end.
• 11:00 @dhannifin sweet! I think it's time for another Crowe IT tour for the GCC IT team
• 11:10 twitpic.com/9b36 - @kemmeyer is leading a meeting on data integrity and our continuing improvement of F1
• 11:42 twitpic.com/9b6h - @ebuford live and in HD .. Panasonic is demoing thier HD cams and goodies 2day
• 12:22 twitpic.com/9bb8 Overhead shot of the panasonic demo..courtesy the auditorium webcam that I forgot we had setup.
• 20:35 Just had family meet-n-eat at Uptown Kitchen with Alan Hunt (VR6systems.com) and family. Awesome food and fun conversation. I had waffles :)

8/29/08

• 00:22 Borrowed a Verizon PCMCIA card from IT Volunteer Tom Templin just now so we can test checkin at Elkhart campus tomorrow. Thanks Tom!
• 10:14 twitpic.com/9fhr - Truckload of AV and IT gear for Elkhart onsite testing this morning. Crossing fingers
• 11:59 Retweet @wantmoore: twitpic.com/9fu0 @JasonPowell competing in Syncronized Child Checkin
• 12:03 I'm so happy child checkin testing is working VERY well via our ZyXEL ZyWall Router and Verizon 595 AirCard. w00t!
• 14:20 @kemmeyer's new nickname is Starbuck..at least up here in the IT dept
• 15:01 My i760 phone batt just went flat..guess using it as wifi router for 3 laptops and 2 checkin PC's really takes it's toll. WMwifiRouter rocks
• 16:34 twitpic.com/9h8x - I am VERY impressed with this ZyXEL router. Lots of features,a/b/g radios,dual WAN including mobile
• 20:15 Church Tech Biggest Loser2 results! jpowell.blogs.com/ Congrats to all the big losers!
• 20:48 @BillGlick Here's the ZyXEL router I got bit.ly/2e5svb
• 21:13 What a busy day. Multisite testing, senior pastor minor IT emergency..now time for some Heroes with wifey to start the long weekend :-)

8/30/08

• 01:15 Had some good fun on Rockband with @cgreentx @mburleson @JBartowiak..they made me sing..not pretty, but it worked :-)
• 09:41 @deanlisenby Sadly console games are not cross platform online. So you can do rockband on Wii vs. Xbox users. Rats eh?
• 10:53 Kem Meyer is turning 40yrs! Go leave a comment on her blog kemmeyer.com - you can also watch my video message to her
• 11:37 After 9 month hiatus we're going to restart our IT Vol Team Night. Details are still being worked out, but Weds nights are looking probable.
• 13:32 twitpic.com/9lq8 I've discovered the date of the rapture! w00t!!
• 14:38 twitpic.com/9m5m - Wife brought me home a present :)
• 22:06 Noise from the fireplace. Investigation reveals a Raccoon! Hope it's not a she and that there are not babies. Googling Raccoons in chimney.
• 22:25 to clarify..raccoon is on the other side of the flue..flue opened 100% and we're can see it looking down into the fireplace.
• 23:21 Just filled up both cars with fuel..anticipating price going up due to hurricanes. We think raccoon has left chimney. Time to find a webcam

8/31/08

• 16:53 Fun afternoon at our home with @cyberentomology and the rest of the Ian Beyer clan, @wantmoore, @gotmoore, & @dhannifin

Weekly Twitter Roundup

This past weeks tweets filtered for mainly IT content for your viewing pleasure...

8/18/08

• 08:50 Heading into office. Today is close tickets day so we can create some room for brainstorming this week.
• 09:47 Our total ticket queue is down to 18...I am ticket man this morning!
• 12:58 @wantmoore just left in a rush to go grab his new iPhone :-)
• 13:44 Once again our backup space (7.5TB!) is maxed out..grr. My call=stop backing up ALL music and video files for now.
• 14:01 twitpic.com/86go - @wantmoore just arrived with his new fruitPhone!
• 16:00 took Ed and Justin to Ciber/IBM open house..hearing about IBM storage.
• 16:17 twitpic.com/86wq - Uber IT vol Tom starts giving us a tour of the new ciber datacenter
• 16:37 twitpic.com/86z0 - The aqua colored fiber is 10GIG!
• 17:05 twitpic.com/872x - This datacenter has given us ome great ideas for future
• 17:23 @DellTechCenter I asked if the data center was a coke free zone :-)
• 17:35 Heading home..even with 2hr offsite excursion this afternoon..finished the day with total open ticket count down to 11!

8/19/08

• 09:03 boo..got 4.5hrs sleep last night..grr..even with Melantonin :( Oh well. Time to get going. Ticket count to be single digits by end of day.
• 13:57 I just closed a ticket that's been open for OVER a year. That feels good :-)
• 15:28 @mattmetzger is hangin' with us this afternoon. Much Linux stuff happin' up here today between him and @wantmoore
• 17:41 loving blockbuster online..walked into store with 2 return DVDs..walked out with 2 free rentals and now my next 2 DVD's should ship pronto
• 19:15 @thejrod I can view twitpics on the i760
• 22:59 hat tip curtissimmons: this Dark Knight spoof is AWESOME! tinyurl.com/625nw6
• 23:04 @timlytle interested in being on the ChurchITPodcast this Thursday 10pmEST? Would love to hear about all the cool IT stuff behind F1

8/20/08

• 09:15 Tweaking final list of stuff to buy for multisite and self checkin. Order MUST B Placed TODAY!
• 09:46 @amitry I get daily MozyPro emails and check our bandwidth graphs from overnight to see that the upload ran as scheduled.
• 09:52 @2sean2 What are the drives for? Time Machine? User personal files? Curious minds want to know!
• 10:09 Lots of brainpower in the room for a meeting regarding Community Center checkin and data procedures/processes
• 15:29 Mega props to @deanlisenby and crew for giving us a quick show-n-tell of Promise arrays.
• 15:32 FYI: We've rescheduled the Fellowship Tech IT Team for the Sept 4th Church IT Podcast since DREZ is still in recovery.
• 16:17 Upgrading to Firefox3..I've been told it's much better for folks like me that have 40+ tabs open all the time. We'll know shortly.
• 16:37 twitpic.com/8e7g - Vista isn't stable? I disagree. 44 days uptime. Sadly I do need to reboot now for a firefox3 install issue.
• 16:54 w00t!!!! Single digit helpdesk queue!! And a couple are just waiting on other people to reply back. w00t!
• 17:18 Ffox3 installed and Justin has all my plugins working except for IE Tab..the d/l link is b0rked..booo. Oh well, time to head home.
• 17:24 @timastevens Just remember the helpdesk queue is WAY diff than the project queue!
• 21:09 @dawnnicole So far so good with FF3. Seems to do a better job with using less RAM. I keep LOTS of tabs open and FF2 we easily eat over 1GB
• 21:25 twitpic.com/8fbj Tell me we've not been bustin' a move on the helpdesk queue recently! I love seeing graphs like this :-)
• 22:20 @deanlisenby It's still free..you just have to dig to find it. free.grisoft.com
• 22:26 Anyone up for a little Rockband action on xboxlive tonight? JudiciousJason is my tag

8/21/08

• 09:04 This is one reason I love GCC tinyurl.com/6j3jw7
• 10:08 Don't forget..ChurchITPodcast tonight at 10pm EDT. Open forum. Bring your topics/questions to ask the group. Deets at www.churchITpodca ...
• 12:04 Interesting: Microsoft hires Seinfeld to bite Apple tinyurl.com/6rhz4e
• 14:36 Multisite meeting..talking through procedures/processes..Sept14th is our first preview Sunday. <GULP>
• 16:07 @kemmeyer Use Windows Live Writer for blog posts. You'll thank me.
• 17:10 twitpic.com/8ij4 - Our HP t5730 XPe thins are here! Now to figure out how to manage them and start testing checkin

8/22/08

• 00:54 Fun IT podcast tonight. Good dialogue on several topics. Listen at www.talkshoe.com/tc/6983
• 09:51 inbox zero! Of course I cheated and just moved the 1700+ items into a diff folder. But it's a start right? ;-)
• 11:15 Local PBS station is "looking for someone who is knowledgeable about the latest in teleconferencing and multi-media communications"any help?
• 13:02 College students..Office Ultimate only $60! tinyurl.com/6xogbt HT scottgagon
• 17:04 A new lesson in pain..try to setup iSCSI iniator in sever08 core! Shoot me now!!! Uh, give me GUI please!
• 17:30 Fun afternoon talking Equallogic,virtualization,and IT with guys at Pinnacle.
• 22:04 catching up on tweets from 2day..wondering if @ebuford and @wantmoore actually accomplished anything 2day while I was away. Hmmmmm
• 22:27 Weeks end reveals only 7 tickets in the helpdesk queue! Love that! Me HAPPY! Go TEAM! Now to tackle the project queue...
• 23:23 Glad I still remember algebra..just solved this equation T - Tp = C for p to help with a quote I'm working on. What answer do you get? :-)
• 23:29 I'm actually looking forward to helping my kids with math homework as they get into Algebra and Geometry and beyond. I taught both in '93/94

8/23/08

• 00:25 If you answered p = (T-C)/T you are correct! For those interested here's the steps involved twitpic.com/8p10 :-)
• 11:56 Getting advice from trusted IT peeps on the iPhone..considering the switch if I can get iPhone users to come over and test signal strength
• 12:15 Any Yahoo Music Jukebox users out there? Have you trans to Rhapsody yet? Did your songs actually trans over as they claim?
• 13:15 @beckycallender my house which is right on the IN/MI line which seems to be a black hole for good cell service :(
• 14:29 Meeting @wantmoore at BasneyBMW at 2:45 for Susan Komen Cancer "drive"...they have lots of new bimmers you can test drive..it's free!
• 15:45 twitpic.com/8rrn - My first drive the 550 .. Twas nice!
• 16:30 twitpic.com/8s01 - Car 2 a 750Li..a pimpmobile..AC in the seats and a massage! For a boat it moves.
• 18:51 twitpic.com/8stq The BMW's we got to choose from today. twitpic.com/8str only "select" people got to drive the B7..rats!
• 18:57 twitpic.com/8sus This 335i was my last drive..and it was the best of the bunch. Twin turbos rule!
• 19:15 twitpic.com/8swj My dream car..the M5..uber family hauler! Well,my M3 may be old but she makes me smile daily twitpic.com/8sz6
• 19:19 @beckycallender She said she got the same that Justin got..no bars to start with then suddenly like 3. What the?? Looks like ATT is good.
• 19:22 See when the BMW Cancer Drive is coming to your area and drive some sweet cars!bit.ly/4uniDM
• 19:38 twitpic.com/8t3q - My final drive of the day..not nearly as fun as the other vehicles
• 20:17 and for the record..beemers are BMW motorcycles..bimmers are BMW cars.
• 20:44 So 2 iPhone peeps stopped by house 2day. Both got no bars initially then it went to like 3. Huh??? But it appears ATT/iPhone is possibility

Weekly Twitter Roundup?

I think I'm gonna do a weekly 'Twitter Roundup' blog post of my IT related Twitter posts (Tweets) over the past week.  It will require little time on my part (thanks to LoudTwitter) and it will hopefully provide some value to you all as to what we're doing at GCC ... as well as give a wider audience to some of the questions I've been asking via Twitter.  Consider it a peace offering since my actual blogging content has been rare lately.

Let me know your thoughts pro/con on this.  Again, I'm going to strip out most all the non-IT tweets so that should provide a good signal to noise ratio ... I'll keep in a few funny tweets here-n-there for good measure :-)

This first 'Twitter Roundup' will cover the past couple weeks ...

7/30

• 16:02 Something you don't hear at church everyday: "pick a porn site and try it" ... Ed Buford wanting me to test our new content filter :-) 
• 16:20 After using it at home for long time, GCC is now using the free OpenDNS.org content filtering for our private and public internet usage. 
• 16:28 @davidrussell Yup, sonicwall content filter disabled after causing issues ... OpenDNS.com to the rescue. Free baby! 
• 16:59 @TRKnight From the OpenDNS site they "say" they have very large organizations using their service including school systems. So far so good. 
• 17:04 @TRKnight as for customizable it's OK ... wish you could do more with the default blocked page look/feel. Good enough 4 our needs though. 
• 17:04 @christiaanv I laughed when he said it and figured other would enjoy it as well :-) 
• 17:07 During testing we blocked youtube for a few minutes and immediately our helpdesk hotline got a call about youtube being blocked ... ha 
• 18:35 Anyone installed ESXi on a Dell 2600 or 2650 yet? Curious if it'll even install just for testing. 
• 21:27 @Bruceericatdell Thanks! You might want to check out our www.citrt.org community site. Geeks for Jesus! 
• 22:10 @darylmcmullen rt-click speaker icon>playback devices>speaker properties>enhancements>disable all enhancements 
• 22:57 @darylmcmullen fixes an annoying snapping/popping issue on some D830's during audio playback

7/31

• 01:40 @Bruceericatdell sweet! We'd love to get Dell involved somehow at our big fall roundtable in Charleston, SC see www.citrt2008.com Thoughts? 
• 08:56 today is kiosk updates..now to figure out how to modify this F1 'skin' we got from Terry Chapman years ago to work with v2.5 
• 11:13 BEFORE you start talking to Dell or another VAR about EqualLogic you really need to chat with me. I have hookups and can save you $$$$$!
• 16:39 More kiosk updates..can't figure out custom skin app work arounds so removing it for now..bummer
• 19:31 Fun vchat with Don at PinnacleofIndiana.com about EqualLogic storage. A possible partnership with VR6 Systems in the makings? Hope so :-)
• 23:05 watching cgreentx take apart his macbook live via webcam www.ustream.tv/channel/cgreentx ..in the real world Macs DO have problems

8/1

• 07:20 Ashlee was up at 5:30am and I couldn't sleep afterwards ... so I'm heading into work at 7:20am. Bleh 
• 07:45 3 last kiosks to update and I think we're fully F1 v2.5 
• 08:34 If I don't find a mt dew this morning I'm going to be asleep by 9am..kiosk updates are not the most exciting. Need thin clients! 
• 08:58 bit.ly/szvYj these new small Dell "studio" PC's are sweet. Hmm, wonder how consistent the hardware is for image management?
• 11:13 Just placed an order for 4 D830's and couple monitors. Wish I could order 2 new smokin' ESXi embedded servers.
• 14:12 I rarely use Skype. Just noticed they have IM function. Nice! My skype is gccjason for those that might want to IM me on occasion.

8/2

• 00:43 have i meantioned before how much I dig wmwifirouter.com? Curious to see if anyone else will snag my mobile hotspot since hotel charges for wifi 
• 00:54 @mattmetzger wmwifirouter turns the phone into a wifi router. I've had 3 unique computers connected to my phone at one time no problem. 
• 01:00 @mattmetzger ad-hoc only is a setting you can enable/disable ... see support.wmwifirouter.com/documentation/
• 01:03 potentially not good..just got my 3rd TXT message from Postini today can't contact our email server and getting "undelivered" email alerts 
• 01:18 another Postini alert at 1:15am "email spooling iniated". Hope it just a temp glitch with our ATT pipe. Guess I'll know in the morning. 
• 09:33 ATT regional outage last night. Glad it wasn't GCC specific issue.
• 12:39 I'm in chicago..Ed's supposed to b off today to head to MI..now he's fighting outbound email issues thanks to ATT and I'm running comm :(
• 23:35 Busy day..stressing over email issues killed my Ikea experience..oh well. Field Museum was good. Now at our old neighbors in Kenosha, WI

8/3

• 10:37 5yrs ago on this weekend we said goodbye to our Kenosha friends and moved to Granger to join staff at GCC. NO REGRETS! 
• 11:15 seeing a missed vmail from senior pastor always makes me freak a bit. Thankfully not a crisis just a heads up. Sheew!
• 13:08 Explaining to my buddy Al Kruger what Twitter is and updating his wifi router. 
• 13:30 Watching "Twitter in Plain English" with Al..GREAT video on what Twitter is. Trying to convince him to join the cult O twitter :-)
• 14:03 crud..postini spooling alerts..Just asked @dhannifin to see if he can troubleshoot while Ed and I are out of state. Dustin rocks! 
• 14:20 Looks like out ATT pipe is down. Glad we have a backup ISP for child checkin and basic surfing. 
• 14:27 Just verified the backup pipe is working. Dustin says his ATT DSL line is down as well. 
• 15:06 done all the troubleshooting I can do for now remotely..we're gonna go hit the local pool with the Krugers
• 16:58 4:45pm and ATT pipe is back online..that's 2 days in a row with downs of several hours..me not so happy.
• 23:31 ATT line is up but outgoing emails are not flowing once again. Of course it has to do this on a weekend when we're outta town...arrgh 
• 23:50 @dhannifin I'm actually logged in as Ed just to see what's stuck in the queue. Go for it if you can find the problem :-)

8/4

• 00:30 After midnight and outbound email flowing again..at least for the moment. Here's when outsourcing support or hosted exchange would rock.
• 00:18 @davidrussell I've been using google IMAP for personal and some side clients for long while. Works very well. 
• 00:40 Praying for safe travel for @wantmoore and family who will be making the trek to Indiana around in the VERY early AM. 
• 11:36 @wantmoore's new desk area is all cleaned and ready. Sadly his new D830 is still in transit from Dell. Great days ahead for GCC IT. 
• 11:39 NO church IT podcast this Thursday.. it's our 15yr anniv and wife takes priority :-) 
• 16:17 Had impromptu 1.5hr meeting with Beeson(senior pastor) today. It was a total treat to get to spend that 1-on-1 time with him. w00t!! 
• 16:44 A users laptop is having issues ... my initial diagnosis: having a completely full hard drive could be the problem? ;-) 
• 20:52 twitpic.com/6kwk - At the @wantmoores new home doing a little unpacking 
• 20:56 twitpic.com/6kx6 - Hmm .. What are the child labor laws in IN?
• 23:27 @DerekSchwab laptop goes with me everywhere. If we loose power I figure it will serve as a temp light source :-)

8/5

• 09:16 @ebuford If you can't get that image onto the bigger drive soon just slap the old drive in and we'll schedule another time to swap it. 
• 10:13 Wondering if @wantmoore is gonna start that drywall project today. 
• 11:24 Chattin' with Ryan C over at North Point about how we use Postini. Mmmm, love me some Postini! 
• 13:36 twitpic.com/6n6l - Gettin' some lumber and drywall for @wantmoore at Lowes. Time to build some new walls for the new home. 
• 15:00 twitpic.com/6ni5 - Powell's mobile lumber service ...
• 23:32 As seen at 11pm ... GCC IT/Drywall crew twitpic.com/6pa6
• 23:52 @davidrussell All my domains are with godaddy. What u not liking? 
• 23:58 @davidrussell ... ahh, I only use them for domain names ... not hosting. No sFTP is stupid. Their webmail sucks too (no IMAP). 
• 01:51 I'm awake so working on a friends laptop they dropped off for me to look at. Dell diag reports drive failure. rats. Spinrite to the rescue?

8/6

• 09:13 Today marks a new era for IT at GCC. @wantmoore joins our team and I couldn't be more excited about what the future holds. It's a GREAT day! 
• 11:20 twitpic.com/6qi4 - @wantmoore day1...getting more space into our clonezilla box 
• 12:24 twitpic.com/6qqc - Got to intro @wantmoore and @gotmoore at our all staff mtg today ... w00t! 
• 19:42 testing PockeTwit on the phone...kinda iPhone like with a touch screen phone 
• 20:16 twitpic.com/6sjy - Another night of drywall and painting at the Moore's. 
• 20:28 twitpic.com/6slb - @wantmoore is hammering away on this breaker box. Will he survive? Stay tuned...
• 22:52 twitpic.com/6t3e - Oreo break!!

8/7

• 00:26 12:20am and getting home after working all night on Moore manor. Looking forward to Leadership Summit tomorrow. Wonder how many wifi users? 
• 08:50 Celebrating 15 years of marriage today! 
• 10:02 Leadership Summit at GCC! My big questions of the day: how many wifi users will we have and how slow will the internet be? :-) 
• 10:42 watch the summit tweets roll in from around the globe: tinyurl.com/56fcck
• 11:12 Only 58 wifi users right now. Time to go setup the guest internet kiosks. 
• 12:37 Anyone know if a Dell D830 would work well for running MediaShout? 
• 12:50 anyone tried booting XP on macbook (not a VM) 4 mediashout? My guess is someday we'll move from MediaShout to ProPresenter or ProWorship 
• 13:07 Mediashout IS supported on Mac hardware via bootcamp www.mediashout.com/support/mac/ ... nifty. 
• 13:38 @kerner MS is what we use in all our classrooms currently. Gotta keep it all standardized. Yes, ProWorship created here. 
• 13:39 @PeterBishop ProWorship/ProPresenter/ProVideo for auditorium, MediaShout for classrooms 
• 15:26 @modernscience kewl ... thanks for the info! D830's will be option B 
• 17:01 Retweet @dhannifin: Beijing 2008 Olympic Games - Powered by SharePoint - bit.ly/WOQrK

8/8

• 11:29 @beckycallender I know macs don't crash, but mine does. Of course I'm sure it's somehow my fault and not the macs. 
• 12:28 72 wifi devices on the network currently ... 28 of them on 1 of the access points in the auditorium 
• 16:12 twitpic.com/704f - New laptops have arrived! 
• 17:47 ...and yes those Dell boxes contain only 1 laptop ... but do include a docking station ... thus the mongo size 
• 17:49 @watermarkgeek thought about waiting for E series, but want to make sure new stuff plays with everything we already have in place. 
• 17:58 Retweet @TRKnight: A rap all of us geeks, engineers and especially physicists can appreciate - bit.ly/9GwkF
• 23:10 thank you NBC for making lots of event streams available online..fun to watch the other sports that don't get TV time bit.ly/4rX4TA

8/11

• 09:37 Bored? Come watch our all day IT meeting live webcam www.ustream.tv/channel/jpowellcam Fun starts at 9:45am-ish
• 09:44 twitpic.com/7c63 - Whiteboard is never this clean! Preparing for day of 'this is the GCC network' for @wantmoore 
• 12:22 After a morning of network infrastructure brain dump it's time 4 wings with @ebuford and @wantmoore! We have much more to go after lunch. 
• 14:03 Starting up the live webcam again around 2:15pm..now with 100% more audio! The GCC IT brain dump continues. Fun to go over our entire layout 
• 14:06 webcam streams at www.ustream.tv/channel/jpowellcam and www.ustream.tv/channel/wantmoore
• 17:08 twitpic.com/7dhb - Whiteboard is full at the end of the day. My brain hurts. Yes, it's a bit blurry on purpose :) 
• 21:15 @DerekSchwab For basic imaging clonezilla is OK. It's NOT a ghost replacement though. 
• 22:04 Apple calls me every week now that I've downloaded one of the IT webcasts. Geesh, I'm not returning your calls cause I don't want to talk.

8/12

• 11:13 ESX and ESXi users! Alert! Major bug in Update 2 release. read tinyurl.com/66hcaj
• 11:53 I just heard @wantmoore cursing linux ... and he really likes linux! Must be time for some lunch :-) 
• 11:55 @timlytle That bites! I'm sure there's some major chewing out going on at VMware today over this. 
• 12:00 @deanlisenby OMW, what do you have to eat to hit 8000-10000 cals !? 
• 13:24 new Dell E series laptops have backlit keyboards...nice! That one of my fav features of the macbookpro. Dang, now I'm wanting a new laptop. 
• 14:06 tinyurl.com/66zjfq Dell E-Series PPT overview. HT @ tracep 
• 15:21 I am a ticket closing machine this afternoon! 
• 15:54 ESXi licensing chat over at Dell TechCenter tinyurl.com/5rq2ff in a few minutes. 
• 17:35 Official VMware press release on the ESX/ESXi update 2 issue tinyurl.com/629m4r they will be providing updates every 2 hrs. 
• 17:51 @DellTechCenter Thanks for hosting the talks. I had to leave at the start for impromtu meeting but I'll check back over the transcript. 
• 17:55 Retweet @TRKnight: Dell has moved into Twitter full force. bit.ly/1CaJ5k I'm also following several other Dell dudes on twitter. 
• 17:57 @ebuford U R FUNNY ... not get to bustin' a move on those tickets! :-) 
• 18:17 My Dell D830 made it just over 20days before required reboot (docking bay issue). I'm tracking uptime because of all the Vista stability FUD 
• 20:05 Just sent email to @kemmeyer and @timastevens that I hope will make them smile about self checkin option 
• 20:27 Looking for a Verizon Mobile Broadband Router..any recommendations? I really want something that will do .11a, but that doesnt seem to exist 
• 20:40 @lwasik I'd recommend downloading the free AVG antivirus free.avg.com/ assuming it came with none from Dell
• 23:58 bit.ly/3KbF6f This ZyXEL mobile router does a/b/g and lots of other nifty features. Puttin' it at the top of my list for multisite

8/13

• 01:29 @clifguy happy anniv! 
• 06:52 6:45am and we're all up for the first day of school. Yeehaw! 
• 07:26 Our 3rd and 5th grade boys just got on the bus. Time to hit the treadmill for first time in 3+ months. Still got 20lbs I wanna delete. 
• 10:38 I so love internal instant messaging. Makes life much easier although less personal I suppose. My office IS a LONG way from everyone FWIW 
• 10:56 twitpic.com/7jno - Our IT office space .. Ed and Justin Rock! 
• 13:13 comm/web/IT team is back to 11 peeps .. yes! We now go to eleven! :) HT SpinalTap 
• 13:33 twitpic.com/7k72 - I've gotten more comments about why I am wearing a pink shirt today..hey, wife bought it..I wear it 
• 17:50 Brainstorming over storage strategies for certain GCC staff that chew up a TON of disk space. Tomorrow morn we'll try to whiteboard it :-) 
• 20:16 Best Buy to offer iPhone starting Sept7 bit.ly/3X0MvI
• 21:25 Had to move my XBOX360 into DMZ to get XBOX Live to work correctly. Any known security bugs I should be aware of?

8/14

• 08:07 Office to the office early to get ready for morning of storage discussions. 
• 08:41 If anyone has built your own SecureGive kiosk give me a ping. Wondering what hardware is working best for scan/print 
• 10:13 running home to get my Zune player..yes, it's needed for important testing procedure..always something new at GCC :) 
• 11:41 twitpic.com/7nnr - AV guys testing a new projector..olympics look awesome on HD proj..benefits of sharing office with TechArts :) 
• 14:42 I've been a Zune user for a while, but I've learned more about it's syncing today than all prior time combined. Justin in time learning :-) 
• 14:59 @bnpositive luv the Zune..wifi sync rules! Wish it had a few more options, but overall great product and experience. 
• 15:10 <vent> Server SPACE! Need more space! Where's my easy button! Need more space on a zero budget! <end vent> ah, feeling better ... 
• 18:05 Trying to decide on possible low budget storage solution. MD3000i vs Promise VTM610i. Each has pro and con. Price is biggest factor. Hmmm 
• 22:39 bit.ly/Qpa0n 1TB enterprise class hard drives for $220? It's amazing how drive prices continue to fall. Wish gas would follow suit

8/15

• 07:28 2weeks left in Church Tech Biggest Loser2..several people with some great loss this round..I'm not in that group..time for treadmil :-) 
• 10:59 @jermtech Yup, I just use UltraVNC. You do have to turn on VNC at the mac first. 
• 11:54 I'm so stoked about our IT support team! @ebuford and @wantmoore rock! I love what they are doing and thinking about for future. Go Team! 
• 11:55 Oh and @mattmetzger rocks too! Even if he's not IT "support" ;-) 
• 12:29 @jamiruth My Strength Finder results tinyurl.com/6eat4n
• 14:41 Reading Promise M610i Manual to see how it compares to our sweet-o-licious EqualLogic arrays. Already see some major differences as expected 
• 17:56 impromtu dinner with @wantmoore and @ebuford fams at our home this evening. Burgers and corn on cob. Yum! 
• 21:49 twitpic.com/7uwj - @wantmoore is practicing his drumming for fall roundtable rockband competition :)
• 22:32 So it's been over a month since iPhone release ... are we safe to assume Apple/ATT won't kill activesync on the non-enterprise data plans?

8/16

• 16:47 Wife deleted .net2 from her laptop 2 free space 4 pics. Now her pic software is borked. Hopefully a hand install will make it happy.

8/17

• 11:58 new tiny twitter version out..couple new features that are nice touch 
• 13:44 First time I've been called outta church service to do tech support. Thankfully it was very minor and didn't take very long. 
• 15:49 @darylmcmullen it was working, Tim just didn't have user/pass. COR is doing live Flash streaming. cyberentomology could give us the low down 
• 16:13 twitpic.com/8320 - Ashlee just lookin cute on her trike 
• 16:13 twitpic.com/8324 - Dang, Ashlee can shovel like a crazy woman .. In her Sunday dress no less 
• 19:15 @wantmoore FYI: the budget for our live stream is $9/mo..oh and it's not officially "supported" either ;-) 
• 21:21 checking out www.wowzamedia.com/ Flash Media Server
• 22:38 Blockbuster Online is finally getting into the movie download market www.blockbuster.com/download