If there is one thing that churches (that aren’t mega churches – and sometimes even the megas…) frequently fail at doing, is creating layers of communication that actually communicate.
The one thing you communicate is whether or not you know what you are doing and most churches scream, “We’re oblivious!”
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I featured some pictures last week during Phriday Foto that had everything Black and White except the only important person in the picture, my daughter.  Turns out this is pretty easy and can be done with a free program, so I thought you might be interested in learning how to do it.
First, you need Gimp.  [...]

Sorry, no patriotic pictures of flags, kids or picnics.  Not even fireworks.
Some of you have noted that I was having trouble with my laptop over the last couple of weeks.  Turns out, the motherboard fried.  I took it in to a local Nerd Herd to confirm the suspicions and found out that, as expected, all [...]

Dean Kamen, creator of the Segway, has a new invention that is amazing. He developed it at the request of the US Government in order to help wounded Iraq Veterans who are coming home without arms. It is a prosthetic arm that has highly sensitive tactile ability.
Follow the link, watch the video. [...]

Updating the status of my blog and the overhaul. Precursor to the post on templates in my “Better Blogging” series.

Give up your preconceived ideas. These guys are techy enough to eliminate their boards from this video. It’s amazing.
What else might you not know about skaters?
Did you know that more kids skateboard than every other sport in the US?

Links from tools to weird stories, amazing videos and so much more.

If you are new to blogging or don’t know much about hosting a blog on your own site vs. blogspot or even wordpress free services, you can check out my rundown from last year that will give you the basics. There are a few changes of specific info from then, but just a few.
I [...]

I am considering switching from Bloglines to Google Reader as my primary rss feed reader. If you don’t know what that’s all about, read this post: Pastoral Blogging, Pt. 7 (I hereby stop numbering them and will name them from now on…)
Anyway, this is not really brought on by Bloglines at all. [...]

Just for my own amusement and my family’s ability to get to my pictures online (some are of my family), I have created a photoblog as a subdomain. If you would like to access my photoblog, you can do so here:
photoblog.twelvewitnesses.com
With the help (as always) of David Phillips, this blog is a direct connect [...]