The Chief of the Suri tribe, located in Brazil, has taken a fascinating tack on how to preserve his people’s way of life. He’s using Google Earth. The Suri only made first contact with outsiders in 1969, and have struggled mightily since through violence, disease, and illegal encroachments on their land. In response, Chief Almir…
Category: Thoughts
Just my general thoughts on things.
Blog Tour: From the Garden to the City
Note: If you want to follow along with the Blog Tour for this book, follow this link to the ChurchM.ag site. Several years ago I attended presented at BibleTech 2011 and sat in on a session led by John Dyer. I was immediately impressed. John highlighted things that I wanted to briefly touch on during…
The five year lag
The other day I had a brief twitter conversation with @johndyer (whom all my readers should follow) about technology in the Church. John often hears complaints that churches are “five years behind the rest of the world” technology-wise and, being a thoughtful technologist remind the complainers, “Look, its 2011 and George Lucas has JUST gotten…
Re-purposing and expanding
The 4 year old router Central purchased is starting to get a bit flaky. Â The hardware of the router is actually pretty good, but the firmware has always been terrible (and never updated). Â As the demands of our network have gotten more and more, the bugginess of the firmware has popped up more and more….
The fall of a cultural icon
Monday night I went to a Borders for the last time. Well, the store signage said “Borders,” but it wasn’t like I remembered it at all. The cafe was closed, the friendly Borders staff was gone, and there were signs indicating the mark-downs available for any given shelf. In fact, there were no employees of…
Why are you following me?
Every now and again I’ll get a friend request, or a Twitter notification that I’m being followed, from someone whose outlook on life is so divergent from mine that causes me to get a bit nervous. I enjoy blogging and sharing ideas, and even being honestly disagreed with, but I’ve also been attacked by the…
