Last week the United Methodist Church met globally for a Leadership Summit. With membership declining steadily over the last several years the denominational leadership hosted a global brainstorming session. Video from the main session was broadcast globally as United Methodists gathered around the world to discuss the issues facing the church today. The event was [...]
Archive for the ‘Websites’ Category
16 Nov
Visiting The Library
My latest post is up on the Faith & Tech blog. I discuss Archive.org and some of the many United Methodist related resources available within. Go check it out and support the F&T blog!
12 Oct
How To Choose A Strong Password
Our friends at the Mozilla Foundation provide some good tips on how to choose a strong password.
8 Oct
When Errors Become Works of Art
I remember when 404 and 500 errors were just that, error messages. We have all seen them when we try to browse to a website and we have trouble communicating with the remote server. They can be so much more though. When a 404 error lives up to its full potential the result can be [...]
30 Aug
SSL Identification Errors
Our clergy e-mail server at work is running a Thawte SSL123 certificate for securing all webmail, POP/SSL and SMTP/SSL traffic. They have been an excellent certificate authority and we have used them for several years now. Unfortunately, the certificate in question expired over the weekend. I was supposed to renew it late Saturday night or [...]
12 Aug
Red Link of Death
Leave it to Google to come up with interesting new things. I downloaded the latest version of Chrome and noticed that several things have changed. You can now synchronize extensions and preferences across browsers. The best part though is the new graphic for SSL certificates: This is the graphic that you now see when you [...]
2 Aug
Roadrunner Issue Resolved
The Roadrunner delivery issue at work has been resolved. I waited all weekend to see if our e-mail would deliver. Roadrunner’s block on our IP address was never removed. I sent an e-mail address to postmaster@rr.com with no luck. There isn’t even an autoreply configured for that account. All of the other major ISP’s resumed [...]
2 Jun
Google Apps
We have been working over the last few months to set up and deploy Google Apps to all of our various e-mail users at work. In case you have never heard it before Google has bundled many of their online offerings (Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar and Google Sites) into a company branded version that [...]