ACS Responds

After my post about dropping a bomb on ACS, I have been able to do some serious dialogue with people in power at ACS about the issues that I covered.  I wanted to update you about some of the progress and some of the dialogue about these issues. William (AccessACS program manager) e-mailed me today about...

Becoming a lion chaser

I finally started reading Mark Batterson’s “In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day” today.  (You can download the entire first chapter here.)  This book has been on my reading list since coming back from the Catalyst Conference last year.  We heard Mark speak at one of the pre-conference...

Checkpoint Summer Updates

Our largest area of need for enhancements was in the Checkpoint product.  Thankfully, a number of changes are on the way with this product in the July release.  One of the R&D guys told me that I was the reason for a number of these things.  I think they’re just trying to make me feel good, but...

Protecting your network from outside invaders

For my inaugural post on my fancy new church IT blog, I want to talk about the necessity of protecting your church members’ information, your church-owned computers, and each network user. I was reading Nick Nicholaou’s post about Biometrics, and I was inspired to post on network security. He...