Archive for April, 2007

Monday, April 30th, 2007

One Day Blog Silence

Comments Off - Posted in General by Andrew Mitry

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

A Mac Mini is now in the Mix

We are starting to nibble at the Apple. Our volunteers that work are ready to move to Macintosh and thanks be to God, we just got a new Mac Pro sponsored. Hopefully, we will get it outfitted with Pro Presenter 3.0 and Final Cut Studio 2. Knowing that I’ll have to start [...]

4 Comments » - Posted in AudioVisual, Web/Tech by Andrew Mitry

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

Comment Timeout Plugin to Reduce Spam

Recently, a lot of spam comments are sneaking past Akismet. The comments are usually on very old posts so I decided to install the Comment Timeout plugin. I have it set to disable comments when posts are more than 120 days old or haven’t had a comment for more than 60 days. [...]

Comments Off - Posted in Web/Tech by Andrew Mitry

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

Google Scrubbed!

Tried to fire up Google this morning and found this:

I had to change our DNS back until they allow Google to work, my guess is someone added Google to a blacklist that ScrubIT subscribes too. They need to make sure certain critical domains are whitelisted no matter what. Hopefully they will update [...]

6 Comments » - Posted in Web/Tech by Andrew Mitry

Sunday, April 22nd, 2007

Joost Invites

I just got three invites that I can hand out for the beta trial of Joost. Joost is new Internet TV service from the founders of Skype that gives the user a “high-quality full-screen picture.”
At St. Mark’s, online video has taken off – from live streaming to posting videos on demand with Google Video [...]

72 Comments » - Posted in AudioVisual, Web/Tech by Andrew Mitry

Sunday, April 22nd, 2007

Back from Aruba

We just got back from an amazing week long vacation in Aruba. Thank God, it was a very relaxing time, I got spend some quality time with Christ, my wife and catching up on a lot of reading. Unfortunately, I did have to miss the Church IT Roundtable (this was the only week [...]

1 Comment » - Posted in General by Andrew Mitry

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

Christ on the Throne

A couple weeks ago, our altar nave went from a plain white wall to a magnificent icon of Christ on the Throne that is around 15 feet high. It’s not an original oil painting (that would take weeks/months to finish), rather it is printed on canvas using a special printer, glued on to the [...]

3 Comments » - Posted in Christianity, Orthodoxy by Andrew Mitry

Sunday, April 8th, 2007

Christ is risen! Indeed, He is risen!

3 Comments » - Posted in Holy Pascha Week by Andrew Mitry

Saturday, April 7th, 2007

The Seattle Times on Orthodoxy in the US

Orthodox churches experiencing a resurgence

3 Comments » - Posted in Orthodoxy by Andrew Mitry

Saturday, April 7th, 2007

Bright Saturday

We spent the entire night yesterday in the church praising our Lord Jesus Christ, ending with the Divine Liturgy at dawn. Throughout the week, the church was teaching us through the prophecies, gospels and sermons but last night that all changed. All the readings, hymns and prayers were focused on praising our Lord [...]

Comments Off - Posted in Holy Pascha Week by Andrew Mitry