Archive for February, 2008
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Instant Intranet/Extranet with Google Sites
Google finally integrated the technology acquired when they bought JotSpot into Google Apps. Google Sites allows you to create instant collaborative internal and external sites.
Churches and schools may find Google Sites helpful when working with various groups and volunteer teams where data needs to be exchanged regularly. Also, this provide a simple, secure [...]
Comments Off - Posted in Google by Andrew Mitry
Monday, February 25th, 2008
ETA 09-27-2008
23 Comments » - Posted in General by Andrew Mitry
Friday, February 22nd, 2008
The American Dream or The American Disaster
John 2:13-22
Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. And He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers doing business. When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep [...]
Comments Off - Posted in Christianity by Sherry Mitry
Thursday, February 21st, 2008
New Site Launched
Launched a new version of our church website today using Drupal. Still needs a few tweaks, but we decided to go ahead and cut it over. Any feedback is greatly appreciated.
23 Comments » - Posted in Web/Tech by Andrew Mitry
Friday, February 15th, 2008
Amazon S3 Outage
Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) is experiencing an outage this morning, for updates and details follow this thread on their forum. The outage effects some of the videos and downloads on this blog.
Update: Looks like service was restored at 10 AM EST.
Comments Off - Posted in Web/Tech by Andrew Mitry
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
Sporadic Hotmail Delivery Failures
Looks like Hotmail may be having sporadic issues sending email. Occasionally, Hotmail users sending messages to our domain get a “Delivery Status Notification (Failure)” with the following details:
Final-Recipient: rfc822;xxx@stmarkdc.org
Action: failed
Status: 5.5.0
Diagnostic-Code: smtp;550-bay0-omc2-s25.bay0.hotmail.com [65.54.246.161]:57850 is currently not
550-permitted to relay through this server. Perhaps you have not logged into
550-the pop/imap server in the last 30 [...]
Comments Off - Posted in Web/Tech by Andrew Mitry
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
Google Apps releases Postini Message Filtering
Google released three different packages for shops running their own email servers. Non-profit and education organization get a 66% discount to boot!
Comments Off - Posted in Google by Andrew Mitry
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Fifteen Free Tools that Make an IT Manager’s Life Easier
Managing a small or medium sized network can be challenging, over the years I have found these free tools that provide solutions to common IT problems:
Spiceworks – Inventory, monitoring and help desk.
OpenDNS – Reliable, secure outbound DNS that blocks phishing sites and gives you the power to block adult sites, proxies and individual domains.
SSL-Explorer Community [...]
8 Comments » - Posted in Web/Tech by Andrew Mitry
Monday, February 4th, 2008
And the competition heats up…
I’ve joined the Church IT Biggest Loser Contest, weighing in this morning at 218 lbs. I know I am two months late in to the game, but I’ve got a strategy to win.
Cut out all sugar – I have a huge sweet tooth, it’s just going to have to go.
The South Beach Diet, [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Contest by Andrew Mitry
Friday, February 1st, 2008
Gift Certificates now available at OrthodoxBookstore.org
Not sure what to buy someone? Gift certificates are now available at OrthodoxBookstore.org, and for the next week, readers of this blog can get a 10% discount on any purchase.
Promo Code: GB8790AN0325 (expires 2/7/2008)
