One Time Credit Cards with PayPal

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 Posted in Technology | 1 Comment »

PayPal recently introduced a new service as part of their PayPal Plug-In.  The plug-in lets you create what they call "Secure Cards", which act as normal credit cards that you can use at online retailers.  You can request secure cards ...

Techno Savior

Monday, June 16th, 2008 Posted in General, God, Leadership, Technology | No Comments »

This is the first part in my series on 5 life lessons that I learned from Labor Day weekend in 2005, while volunteering with efforts after Hurricane Katrina. On that Monday and Tuesday I served in a temporary data center for ...

Distributed Storage on Your Desktops

Friday, June 13th, 2008 Posted in Technology | 1 Comment »

So, wouldn't it be cool if your organization didn't just have a few centralized file servers and backup solutions?  What if you could have racks of servers distributed throughout your entire organization that could act as redundant storage for your ...

Unplug and Relax

Thursday, May 15th, 2008 Posted in Technology | 1 Comment »

8:05a: The power goes out. 8:08a: The power comes back on. 8:10a: I discover that my internet access is still down. I'm lost and confused.  How do I check my email?  How do I read my morning news?  How do I read my ...

Rethinking Parent Alert System

Sunday, May 4th, 2008 Posted in Blogs & RSS, Church, Technology, Web | 4 Comments »

I broke the Visual-Pager keypad at church yesterday. This device allows workers in our nursery to notify our tech booth operators that they need to display a number on our video projection system. Each parent and child are ...