This has been all over the tech news since yesterday and I found the powerpoint presentation interesting.

It is an interesting look at how venture capitalists are viewing the current crisis.

If you consider that venture capitalists are dealing with companies that desperately need growth to thrive and are living by credit rather than money bins then we match what they are looking at.

With consumers tightening up their wallets they are focused on maintaining the necessities. Unless we make sure we stay a priority to them with a good return in quality of life then we lose their investment.

This also tells me that we need to get some Christian Financial Planning people in to make sure that the finances of those supporting us don’t tank. People have been relying on home equity rather than savings for their fun times and as a buffer in the hard times, and that piggy bank is broken.

We have been severely cutting back our budgets at the church while still trying to maintain quality programming (although less of it) and not letting the missions that rely on us to go without our support. But we are not unaffected by the economic troubles, just ask the business office and watch their faces.

How is your church handling this? Especially for those of you in IT or security, 2 areas that have raidable budgets.

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.

I just discovered that sometime in the recent past (I hope) I stopped receiving email from most of my OSMinistry email addresses. I’m not sure when this happened, but the POP box has 2300 messages in it.

Before I started forwarding all my addresses to my GMail Account I had them all forwarded to one POP box which I accessed either though my own setup of SquirrelMail or Eudora. 18 months ago I completely stopped using Eudora and about that time I thought I moved that POP box into a position to be checked by GMail.

Well, I was just testing something and I was trying to figure out why the email wasn’t getting to me. I discovered that the POP box had 53MB in it and that it was full of “Please moderate this comment” and “So and so has sent you a message.” I’m sure I have kept up with all of them, but I did find a few that I am not sure were really handled.

I have now done what any reasonable person would do, I wiped out the whole lot of them. The old emails I had been saving are probably not important anymore, the new ones I have missed are beyond catching up on, and the spam that got through the filters was too bizarre to worry about.

So, I promise that I was not intentionally avoiding most of you.

Now, to those I was avoiding . . .

I have been playing around with another blog recently. Quite often I want to post something interesting, but not in line with what I consider the direction of this site. So, while sitting around just thinking about stuff a while back I registered R.ighteo.us and started another blog.

I have had many failed sites in the past. Some programming related, some political in focus, a few persaonal type, and an odd assortment of misfits; but I wanted something fun.

I noticed that many of the “fun” sites I visithave a tendency to head into dirty territory and often have anti-christian slants. So I figured I would do something clean, but not preachy. If someone wants a sermon they can go somewhere else (I have a list), but if they want something fun and clean they can go to http://r.ighteo.us/

I would like to take on additional editors and contributors in the near future, but right now I am investing myself to get it started. I don’t like it when people grab a site and make one post then beg everyone else to help. If I want this to succeed and others to join then I need to make sure it is worthy of their time and attention.