Praying for Gustav: Please Sign up for a time slot

1 | August 31st, 2008 | Posted in Intercessory Prayer

Intercessory Prayer is perhaps one of the most important things we can do in our life as a Christian.

While I will not go so far as to say that the Pending Storm coming against New Orleans & the surrounding area is a punishment from God- as I have no clue… I do believe that praying for this area and those in the area is important.   Let me back this up:

Great responsibility is involved in the ministry of intercession.

A.     Because the Lord God did not find anyone to “stand in the gap,” to intercede for the land, He was requited to pour out the judgment due its disobedience.

Ezekiel 22:30-31

B.     Moses’ intercession for the people of God, in pleading with the Lord for mercy, held back the hand of God from consuming the nation in His wrath.

Exodus 32:7-14; Deuteronomy 9:8-9, 12-20, 23-27, etc.; Psalms 106:23

Let me say this again -  There is Great responsibility is involved in the ministry of intercession…  And as a Christian we are called to this responsiblity.

Will you join me - and other Christians in praying for those whose lives will be adversly affected in the path of the Gustav Storm?   If so visit Prayer Helps and follow sign up for a time slot - and then pass to a fellow Sister or Brother In Christ.

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LoJacking your laptop for free

1 | August 29th, 2008 | Posted in Technology, citrt

Recently, a friend of mine had an interesting experience - (he blogged about it - so guess I can share).

as Chuck Russel, Jason Reynolds, David Helbig, and Clif Guy discussed Internet Campus while enjoying a beautiful night on the beach just a couple hundred feet away in the beach parking lot, Jason’s car window was smashed and Clif’s briefcase/laptop bag was stolen containing his laptop, digital camera, web cam, cables, and all kinds of personal items.

Recently I purchased a Mac Powerbook Pro - and I absolutely love this machine…  I think I might need to start attending a 12 step program as I sleep with this thing, take it to church with me (ok so I use it while preaching…) and it has even made the occasional trip to the bathroom with me… it would be devastating for me to loose this or have it stolen.

I looked into purchasing the LoJack software until I read a quick tidbit on BitBud’s blog about encryption for our servers, files, laptops etc… as well as Adeona - a free Open Source LoJack software.

Adeona is the first Open Source system for tracking the location of your lost or stolen laptop that does not rely on a proprietary, central service.  Whats nice is its 3 primary properties:

  • Private: Adeona uses state-of-the-art cryptographic mechanisms to ensure that the owner is the only party that can use the system to reveal the locations visited by a device.
  • Reliable: Adeona uses a community-based remote storage facility, ensuring retrievability of recent location updates.
  • Open source and free: Adeona’s software is licensed under GPLv2. While your locations are secret, the tracking system’s design is not.

The Mac OS X version also has an option to capture pictures of the laptop user or thief using the built-in iSight camera and the freeware tool isightcapture.

So what are you waiting for?   LoJack your hardware !

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Network Naming Conventions… gone Biblical

4 | August 28th, 2008 | Posted in Technology, citrt, network

Recently Ian Beyer, Network Extraordinaire out @ Church of the Resurrection in Leewood KS and I had an interesting conversation about network topology and the naming convention of servers, routers, switches, and workstations.

Salvation-Topology

Salvation-Topology

We are in the process of bringing on Phase 2 of the VineHosting Data Center, complete with our new R1Soft Bare Metal Restore Servers (another blog post perhaps) and our new Virtual Infrastucture.

Since we now have so many more servers than we did in the past - and we have exhausted all the cities Paul visited in the Bible, the names of the sacraments, etc…  I reached out and asked Ian what they were doing -

He got to joking a bit - saying they used all Dr. Seuss themes @ an old employer (not sure if he meant Sun Microsystems or Sprint…) anyhow - pretty funny stuff.   Imagine that - us having Thing 1 and Thing 2 …

I sat down and had to write up an assignment for my seminary class on the vocabulary of Salvation… and suddenly thought … WOW there it is…

The Servers Host name is Salvation:  its guest machines are:

conversion, substitution, reconciliation, propitiation, remission, imputation, adoption, justification, sanctification,  glorification and regeneration (thats the PXE Booter…)

Our R1Soft Servers are called Preservation and Redemption.

Now If I could only turn this in as an assignment instead of the long term paper… I would be happy as pie.

And of course - I still have all these other servers to do…

I guess I could use a few other examples - imagine getting a welcome email being told your on the purgatory server…

What are you using for a Naming Convention?

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Internet Church

1 | August 25th, 2008 | Posted in Technology, Web 2.0 minus or plus

Recently, a friend of mine from Church of the Resurrection (Clif Guy) was blogging about the beginnings of the Internet Campus and how COR is looking to do this…
I began looking around @ the web and found the Internet Church (www.Lifechurch.tv) seems to be the ones doing this the best…

I believe many churches will soon be taking a turn towards the virtual. Who would have ever thought of virtual church, but it is becoming a reality in the 21st century. Yes - it is hard to touch, love, and hug - but in this day and age with text, voice, video chat and other social networking tools like twitter, facebook, youtube, etc - fellowship is just a click away…

Soon - You can worship from any remote location with just an internet hook-up and the web address of your own church… (are they ready ?)

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TECH SUPPORT Position REMOTE / Philadelphia Metro Area: Ministry Position

0 | August 23rd, 2008 | Posted in employment, job

We are looking for people who want to make a positive impact on the Kingdom of God working for a not-for-profit Christian Hosting organization, a career in customer service/technical support and who want to be the best in the web hosting industry. We currently have openings on daytime and weekend shifts in our Magnolia New Jersey Operations Center.

Job Description:

• Front line support for Chats and Telephone calls.
• Troubleshoot any issues customer is having with their hosting plan.
• Provides technical support via helpdesk, live chat and telephone.
• Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned.
• Provide basic user training and support for the Web Empowered Church Content Management System (training provided for new-hire)

Required Skills:

• Excellent written and verbal skills in the English language to communicate effectively to clients.
• Ability to work with a team and follow instruction from supervisors.
• Ability to work on your own with little direction or instruction.
• Outstanding customer service skills.
• Must be dependable to be at work during assigned shifts.
• Knowledge of FTP, DNS, Cpanel and WHM preferred extremely important.
• Knowledge of Linux (CentOS flavor) important.
• Ability to multitask and meet specific goals set by supervisors.
• Experience with documenting procedures.
• MySQL Experience
• IPTABLES / pfSense / PIX Firewall operations
• Able to troubleshoot basic webhosting procedures.
• Knowledge of XEN, HyperVM, and OpenVZ an asset.
• Shell Scripting / Bash / Perl / PHP an asset.

Technicians must be able to work from our Magnolia NJ office location and/or home depending upon need and schedule. Compensation will be determined during the interviewing process and depends on skill level/experience.

Please email your resume’s to HR@VINEHOSTING.ORG
Only those applicants that are of interest will be contacted.

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P2P / P4P finally being accepted?

0 | August 22nd, 2008 | Posted in Chatter, Technology

I was chatting the other night with @cyberentomology and he told me that they had stopped some of the p2p and napster stuff cold on their network @ COR.org

This got me thinking about how - so much bandwidth is used sharing files, videos, audio etc… during the average work day (can anyone say “Traffic Shaping” 3 times fast after having a moca-latte?)

Anyhow -I began to check a few of the church networks I help support on the side and wow - amazing what do I find - but tons of P2P stuff going on…

Imagine if the RIAA ever came to your church …

Just in time with my thinking / I find this article about Comcast now turning a 180 and declaring love for p2p

So - are you guys blocking this from your boarder?  @ your gateway ? or just allowing it to come in?

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Feelings about the Church: A Question for the World Blog

0 | August 22nd, 2008 | Posted in Church

OK - all those out there in Twitter, Blogging, and whats that called… oh yeah - The Internet Land…

I still have this project where I am looking to solicit from both people in the church and those out of the church their feelings and thoughts about the church.

Please direct everyone you know to:  http://churchfeelings.com take the survey’s yourself.  I plan on pushing out a weekly survey and the results will be used in the upcoming book

“Snapshots of a Dying Culture - the crisis of significance”by yours truely.

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Flock

0 | August 21st, 2008 | Posted in Chatter

ok - so I just found what might just the best Flocking Browser on the face of the internet…
I am testing www.Flock.com ’s new browser (Mozilla / Firefox based) to actually write this blog posting.

The browser allows me to interact in one place with flickr, youtube, my blog, facebook - and a slew of other social networking tools…

Isn’t it time for you to start flocking ?

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asperger syndrome : ADHD: possibly : Benjamin Kelley 6 yrs.

1 | August 21st, 2008 | Posted in ocd

Benjamin seems to becoming popular with the specialists:
Our visit today yields yet more appointments

  • Urologist -
  • Neurologist
  • Psychologist
  • a few more ists as well…

So here is Ben’s story thusfar:

Ben was born a delightful, social baby and loved to be held and cuddled. His huge hazelish brown eyes with their unusually long, dark lashes gazed into our eyes and captivated all of us.

He played with his toys and was a very happy little boy. Right on cue he reached all the usual milestones—talking, walking and all the things a young child learns to do. He began to make sounds that soon evolved into words that strung together to became sentences. He never really ut took to walking very very quickly.

Recently Benjamin started to change:   Some things have been taking place over time that they were hard for us to notice -  A mommy trained to be a Special Ed teacher - and a Daddy with no clue…

This insidious change began so slowly that we did’t’t notice anything unusual at first. He started to take toys away from his sisters and other children, sometimes hitting or pinching to make them cry.

Recently when Benjamin is pulled aside and scolded or given a time out for his actions he will just wait quietly, entertaining himself until it is time to play again, and then he will resume his disruptive behavior.

Even more recent - we have noticed he seems withdrawn and doesn’t pay attention when people speak to him or tell him stories. He has started fixating on things and can play for hours and hours with that one object. Also, he becomes very upset if he is guided to something else. He wanted to keep doing what he had been doing. Change bothers him immensely. It is getting extremely hard to get him to do something that is outside his normal routine- with some minor exceptions like going to the movies… :-)

Many of the behaviors he exhibits are just normal little boy behaviors - but others are part of the asperger Syndrome spectrum.

The good news is - Mommy is doing well handling this situation -

God has given Benjamin, Kerianna, Eileeen and Amelia to us for a reason,  and… having a wife who is trained in Special Education (- and with the specialty of Autism no less)  I can’t help but think if this is the situation - God has a plan - God has given Ben to the right set of parents …

of course - we have a lot more to learn, work with and grow into…

and … of course - the Dr could be wrong - thus the reason for all of the Doctor”igsts” we will be visiting in the near future.

It might just be something minor - or it could be major - but whatever this is - We will be able to work with it through the grace of Jesus.

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GodRev.com - a community

0 | August 21st, 2008 | Posted in site reviews

Recently I have been introduced to www.GodRev.com which is powered by the Christian Go network.
This is a network of Christians our of France that are using technology to reach the World for Christ.

After subscribing to their daily feed - i absolutely love this community.
Most of what I have subscribed to was just US Based - however now I am able to communicate with Christians around just not the nation but the world.

This has also yielded an excellent opportunity to support a few missionaries not only with prayer but also financially and also using my technical skills…

Visit www.GodRev.com and let me know what you think of this community - links to great music and much much more.

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