Archive for May, 2008

Friday, May 30th, 2008

New Privacy Policy for St. Mark’s

One of our volunteers, Karen Henein, a lawyer who specializes in online privacy, helped us come with a new online privacy policy.
St Mark Coptic Orthodox Church Online Privacy Policy
St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church of Washington, DC (“St. Mark Church”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This privacy policy explains data collection and use practices of [...]

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Friday, May 30th, 2008

Reuters on Techie Monks

Modernity Meets Monasticism in Egypt’s Desert, by Will Rasmussen

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Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Coolest Workspace 2.0

Now that I have a new HP 8510W laptop sporting 1680×1050 resolution, I had to figure a way to get it integrated into my award winning workspace.  I ended up building a shelf to bump up the height of my two middle monitors and sliding the dock for the laptop underneath.  Syngery works great for [...]

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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Mozy Connection Errors

We have been struggling for the past couple of weeks to get Mozy to complete an off site backup of 70GB of data on our new file server.  We keep getting connection errors so I emailed Mozy support -  apparently the issue is on their end and they are working to resolve it…
Hello,
I’m sorry for [...]

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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Sermons Manager (DOCMan) Component for Joomla!

A few years back we had a developer tweak the popular DOCMan component for Joomla! to handle sermons for our OrthodoxSermons.org site. Recently, I’ve gotten a couple of requests for the code behind those modifications. I’m not a Joomla! developer so I don’t know how to get these files packaged up nicely so [...]

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Saturday, May 24th, 2008

Really, I am not a Facebook junkie…

Recently I have gotten quite a few comments about how often I update my Facebook status, in reality I rarely login to Facebook…My status is automatically updated via Twitter. What is Twitter you ask? Matt Singley has an excellent new media primer on it over on his blog.

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Friday, May 23rd, 2008

DC CITRT Summary – May 23, 2008

We had our best turnout yet for DC CITRT, thank God and thanks to our hosts at McLean Bible.  I apologize that I am not the best at taking notes and have a weak memory, so if anyone would like to add to this please feel free.

Content Management Systems (CMS) – SiteOrganic was definitely the [...]

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Friday, May 23rd, 2008

Just found my new favorite remote working spot

I just got around to checking out our new library in downtown Fairfax, talk about a 5-star remote working joint! Quiet, comfortable and fast wi-fi! What more could you ask for?
No need to buy a drink just to hang out either…
 

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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Ctech Information Sharing Seminar

David Bebawy has put together Ctech, a Coptic Roundtable of sorts up at the Archdiocese in NJ on Tuesday, May 27 @ 6:30 PM.

Ctech – Upload a doc
Read this doc on Scribd: Ctech

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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

DC CITRT and the Fall National CITRT

DC CITRT, tomorrow 11:30am at McLean Bible.
Fall 2008 Church IT Roundtable, October 8-10 at Seacost Church, Mount Pleasant, SC.

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