So I was asked awhile ago how I manage printers in our Mac environment. The old way of doing things is to install each printer manually on each computer. That’s a major pain, especially when you add a new printer and then have to go to every computer and manually install it. I use a…

Cat? Somebody say something about a cat? This is Gyn. She was a street cat that a friend of mine took in for a few months, but the didn’t get along so well with her existing cat. I was talked into taking Gyn in when she was, by our best guess, a little over a…

Every once in a while I get myself locked into some philosophical train of thought. I’ve been doing a lot of driving around the past few weeks.. Weddings, recitals, and such, just a lot of time in the car. Doing so much driving has turned into one of these times. I’m sure it was triggered…

I wanted to make a brief post as a follow up to my earlier post about Quartz Composer. Easter weekend came and went. I always love being involved and helping, but boy am I glad it is over. So stressful getting everything ready. We did a trial-launch for our 2nd offsite campus on Easter weekend…

So we’ve had a number of people ask us about our children’s check-in process using iPads. My boss and friend Joel wrote a post talking about how we implemented check-in on the iPad for our remote campus and everything we needed hardware and software wise to pull it off. We have since been asked a…

So a few years ago, okay actually maybe closer to 10 years ago as it seems to be back in 2002 or 2003 that this happened; some guy wrote a killer app for the Mac platform called PixelShox Studio. This was a graphics app that allowed anybody to build a phenomenal animations. It used small…

Okay, so Easter is right around the corner and I didn’t want to spend hours building the extra 3 services we will have by hand so that check-in can work. Not to mention losing all my excess fingernail during the day praying I did everything correctly. I decided I wanted something snazzy and easy to…

Yesterday our offices were closed so we took the opportunity to do some long needed updates to Arena, and other parts of the network. We had a long list and got through about 2/3 of it. We upgraded our VMWare ESXI server from 4.0 to 4.1 and that went great, nice and easy. We upgraded…

So awhile ago I bought a bike so I could start riding again. Hadn’t really been riding since I was a teenager so it was an experience. Being that I live on dirt roads it has been about a year and a half and I haven’t really gotten myself going yet, but last week got…

So recently we setup our Arena installation to process the CDR records from our Asterisk phone server. This allows us to lookup a persons record and see who called them (and once we get our Telco lines switched to a PRI so we get caller ID information it will show who they called in to…