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This is only a test, had this been a real podcast I would have used something other than a linked sermon.

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This might be Mark Schultz, but I’m not sure. I’m here doing security rather than for the concert itself. However I do have a more live picture here than they do on the official site (until they update their site). It’s low quality, I edited it and zoomed a bit using the graphics editors little secret MSPaint. They keep it a secret in hopes nobody ever uses it.

I’m sitting at the security desk watching security cameras and listening to a looping video of a violinist (perhaps more like a Celtic Fiddler?). I’m not sure how the person at that booth stands listening to it loop for hours on end. She must hear it in her sleep (note: This is not a judgment on the instrument, the player, or the music).

The Worship Center is pretty full. 1800 people, maybe? They all get to exit through a few doors, but the signature tables are in the way of a hasty exit.
We finished with Intermission alittle while ago. I am surprised at the number of people who asked about where the concession stand is, and the number who were surprised that a church wouldn’t have one. I don’t think we could keep up with the clean-up caused by a concession stand at a concert in our main worship center.

Anyway, I need to go lock some doors. In addition to the concert at one end of the building we have a volleyball tournament at the other and they just finished up. That means its time to secure some more areas and turn out lights.

How to Dissuade Yourself from Becoming a Blogger from WikiHow

Of course, writing a blog for a month without telling anyone about it would help too. After a month consider whether you would be interested in having someone read it or if you want to just abandon it.

I spent a week out of town. I checked in advance about broadband access where we would be staying. Yes, wireless.

So, I have my Dell Inspiron on a public wireless connection without WPA or WEP. What if I need to connect into a system at the church or do anything important on an unencrypted connection?

I have been trying out Hamachi for a while and thought this would be the perfect use. I installed it on a few different computers and registered a private encrypted virtual network.

Hamachi creates a software network connection in your Network Settings area and assignes you another IP address. You call into their server and once you join up there it connects you with the other computers signed into your network and you access them with their Hamachi IP addresses.

I was able to use Remote Desktop, view remote directories, transfer files securely. It is a bit slower since you are going through a software connection to do the encryption and then through the regular network adapter.

I have tried to use it for logging into a remote domain, but I have not been able to get it to connect before login so while I can register to the domain it does no good.

There are a several references to Hamachi on the GRC Security Now podcast.

We arrived back from vacation this afternoon. The nice thing about living in Florida is  that a beach vacation doesn’t require too long of a drive. We stayed down the coast a ways and although the Shuttle launch we hoped to see was canceled due to Tropical Wind Gust Ernesto we did have a good time.

Our room was right next to the main office so the one wireless access point for the entire building was just on the other side of the wall. Unfortunately it needed to be reset at least once each day and I got tired of having to ask them to do it so I was without access much of the time.

As with most vacations, the ripple effect on my work went back a week before I left to make sure everything was ready and will be effecting me in the week to come, but I do have some stuff ready to post.