Because you can observe a lot just by watching.
Some Unknown robot (identified by ‘bot/’ or ‘bot-’) got a hold of the osministry.com site and has been sucking our bandwidth dry.
I wasn’t prepared for the extra 5GB that has been used this month, but I am hoping we stretch it out until Monday before running out of bandwidth allocated here.
I just wanted to make sure you all knew that I was checking into it and were not surprised if it happened. If it gets tight I may be able to reallocate some shared bandwidth, but I hope I don’t have to.
So, I’m sitting at my house watching local weather with my TV card on the computer, refreshing weather.com and weatherunderground.com, listening to a radio, and watching for the tornadoes outside.
Thankfully, Fay is moving away faster than my walking speed. I was afraid that she was trying to establish residency.
I wonder if we should thank Mayor Payton’s storm water fees for encouraging her to move along.
So now, back to hunkering.
As a reader of Engadget, Gizmodo, and other snarky style tech blogs I enjoyed the write-up from this article included in the August, 1931 issue of Modern Mechanics and Inventions.
Motorboating in a Washtub
THE ancient and lowly washtub, long the symbol of feminine drudgery, recently proved its conservatism in England when efforts were made to modernize it by adding an outboard motor and converting it into a sea-going craft. The tub promptly rejected the idea and submerged.
Little Madeleine Waeldin trying out the idea of hooking an outboard motor to a washtub at an English beach resort. It didn’t work, however.
(via ModernMechanix)
Here is evidence that people can have really poor judgment even where it directly risks someone valuable to them. This is also why child endangerment laws exist. But, it reminds me of the saying; “A person is quick to fault their poor memory, but not to fault their own poor judgment.“
Visiting Microsoft.com right now will give you a very inspiring image.
I know that I am now inspired.
Megachurches count on software to help keep track of their members
In other news, churches use plumbing to provide water supplies to attendees and HVAC systems for climate control.
I thought this was an interesting article highlighting Fellowship One, but a good view of how technology is seriously affecting church connections. For the record, we are currently “growing into Arena.”
Finally, Microsoft has fixed the whole Quicktime Thumbnail issues with Photo Gallery.
I never cared much about Quicktime. I really dislike the program, so I use Quicktime Alternative instead. Once I purchased a digital camera that produced .mov files all of that changed. The good news is that Windows Live Photo Gallery shows thumbnails of .mov files; however the bad news was that it was slow and likely to crash Windows Explorer. That is until today when I downloaded kb955359 in Windows update. Now it works great.
I was delayed in installing it because I had renamed WLXQuickTimeControlHost.exe to WLXQuickTimeControlHost.ex_ to keep it from properly loading and causing its mischief. Once I named it back to normal the installation went through smoothly, and didn’t even require a reboot.
Those boxes of old photos we have in closets around here are great. Before our director of programming left a few years ago she dug through all sorts of archive boxes to pull together lots of old photos and items from the churches history. She had been here for 18 years, starting as the children’s minister.
There were a lot of pictures, but not piles of them. They were taken on film cameras and only the best ones were saved. Many of them had been lost or glued onto big poster board displays where they were linked into context.
This came to mind today as I was looking through the directory of our missions department. The director of missions recently went back to work at a church closer to where his family lives. A lot of things have changed over the 7 years he has been here, and one of them is noticeable by the pictures he left behind. Lots of them. As more and better digital cameras went out on missions and service trips our number and size of photos increased.
Between our missions and sports ministries we have more than 100GB of photos and videos. Our student and children’s ministry has a large collection, and our adult ministries have quite a few as well. We are starting to update our Arena database with many of the plain images of individuals, but that still leaves a lot of photos that we don’t want to just delete.
Is there a program out there to help us manage all of this content? Something we can dump it into and find it in the future?
