http://davidrussell.org Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:18:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en About a year ago, someone mentioned Twitter to me. If I recall correctly, it was my friend and digital ally, Justin Thorp. I signed up, looked at the home page for a moment and went on my way—elsewhere. In January, I decided to really give Twitter a solid go. I signed ... http://davidrussell.org/2008/07/01/twitter/ In October, several hundred technologists will converge in Grand Rapids, Michigan for the Internet Ministry Conference. I'm pleased to be speaking at this year's conference on the topic of Internet discipleship. If you are in a ministry position with an angle on using emerging technologies to reach people for Christ, ... http://davidrussell.org/2008/06/03/internet-ministry-conference/ That title might be slightly misleading if you think "mods" are hardware changes. None of the changes I discuss in this article have to do with modifying the hardware of the Apple TV. But many of the changes to the software go beyond simple hacks. They change the behavior of ... http://davidrussell.org/2008/04/15/apple-tv-hacks-and-mods/ Last month, I received some disposable income for getting older. I had really become interested in doing something to make my digital media more accessible on the traditional medium of our living room television. While I really enjoy working on the computer all day long, sitting at a desk to ... http://davidrussell.org/2008/04/10/apple-tv/ Well, it's that time of year again. So I let loose of these stylesheets to get to the bottom of things. Many web standards enthusiasts from across the globe will do the same thing over the next day. Don't be surprised if some of the sites you know and love have ... http://davidrussell.org/2008/04/09/css-naked-day-3/ Not bad while paying for a 5MB/768k connection. Looks nearly three times that. I hope it stays this way for a very long time. (Well, at least as long as 14MB/s is good download speed.) http://davidrussell.org/2008/04/04/speed-of-the-interwebs/ These notes are from a live discussion and may not exactly represent the orator's intention. Each quote is merely a paraphrase and should not be taken as the literal presentation of the orator's exact words. If there is no name attached to a question, I was either unable to clearly hear ... http://davidrussell.org/2008/03/08/expressionengine-open-panel-at-sxsw/ I'm headed to Austin, Texas for a few days to enjoy SXSW Interactive. So far, I have the first two days of the conference all planned out. I'll play the other two by ear and schedule as I go. I want to leave a little flexibility. I already feel like I'm ... http://davidrussell.org/2008/03/07/sxsw-interactive/ Lately, I've been bombarded with information from a wide variety of sources. Most of the noise is self-inflicted. So I've been contemplating several ideas about managing information. The Source of Information I'm curious about how the source of information creates an amount of signal or noise. Since everything is either useful or ... http://davidrussell.org/2008/03/05/information-management/ I'd like to welcome Chris Hodges to digital publishing. Chris pastors Church of the Highlands a top-notch church in Birmingham, Alabama. While in college, I attended Church of the Highlands and became a part of the living legacy of the church. Highlands was born in 2001 and God has miraculously ... http://davidrussell.org/2008/03/03/welcome-chris-hodges-to-blogging/ http://davidrussell.org/2008/02/28/washington-monument/ Microformats are the way of the present, and most certainly the way of the future. This is simply an approach to HTML that allows you to markup information on your site in a way that allows humans and devices to use the text/data on the page in new ways. We use ... http://davidrussell.org/2008/02/07/microformats/ Flickr is a site I doubt I could live without. It rocks my world. Last month, two updates were handed down that improved Flickr even more. The first update was to Flickr Uploadr, the first-party upload tool that makes adding images to a Flickr account as easy as snapping the shutter. ... http://davidrussell.org/2008/01/14/flickr-uploadr-and-stats/ For quite some time now, I've enjoyed the benefits of using OpenDNS on the networks at NCC and at my home. If you are not familiar with OpenDNS, allow me to briefly explain what their service does. Using the web has become quite dependent on the domain name system (DNS). ... http://davidrussell.org/2008/01/09/opendns/ I've been a long time fan of Mozilla's award-winning browser Firefox. I've heralded the glory of safe browsing and championed the cause of FOSS. I do still love Firefox. But lately, I've been troubled by a single problem: Firefox eats alive my available RAM, occasionally to the point that my ... http://davidrussell.org/2008/01/04/opera-browser/ Today, I had the honor of leading worship for World Vision at their chapel service. It was quite an experience and the set went really well. They had planned a great service to start the year in reflection, prayer, worship and scripture. Stacy, one of the vocalists at the Georgetown ... http://davidrussell.org/2008/01/02/world-vision/ Happy New Year! It's the season to reflect on the past and for vision of the future. I'm busy tidying up projects from 2007 and preparing for the year to come. It seems every year I get into something new. Last year, it was photography. And getting into it changed my ... http://davidrussell.org/2008/01/01/new-year-what-next/ This year we moved to a more standardized form for budget proposals. Each department prepares a worksheet with their estimated expenditures in each subcategory of the budget. For IT, I prepared something very close to last year's budget by following the baseline for last year's actual expenses. Other than a ... http://davidrussell.org/2007/12/12/budget-proposals/ Andrew watches his first Iron Bowl on Saturday night. The Auburn Tigers won the match 17-10 over Alabama, sealing a sixth-in-a-row victory against the Tide. War Eagle! [tags]auburn, tigers, football, iron bowl, television, sports[/tags] http://davidrussell.org/2007/11/26/war-eagle/ The service at Speedtest.net is excellent. The application is really slick and seems to provide reliable results of connection tests. It is a hybrid solution of Flash and Ajax and the UI is quite nice. (Ads are about the only negative aspect of the site, but they pay bills just ... http://davidrussell.org/2007/11/17/speed-test/