From TUAW:

AT&T remains elusive on official date for iPhone tethering
As long as I pay AT&T, I don’t think it matters that I want to use my “unlimited” (5GB) iPhone data plan with my laptop. I pay them for Uverse TV/Internet, home phone and two iPhones. They get almost $350/month out of me. Really AT&T, [...]

This is funny – wonder if the youth group would do it..

Trying out ChurchDirector.com

I am testing out ministry management software called Churchdirector.com. We hope to use this for all ministry’s within the church. So far, it looks fairly straight forward. However, I have to “invite” volunteers. It would be nice if I could create an account for them on my own.

What am I learning about Facebook?

I am learning that people really like the opportunity to communicate about many things at all times of the day. In the past few days, I have witnessed or commented on the following:

Youth asking others to come and volunteer unload pumpkins at our pumpkin patch
Someone else at the pumpkin unloading saw my post with [...]

Null values anyone?

I was looking for a way to select all records with a particular field that is empty for my FM Pro app. In SQL, I just enter “SELECT * FROM tbl_my_info WHERE field1 IS NULL”. Pretty simple, huh? Well, FM Pro has its own vagaries. It took way too long, but I was able to [...]

FileMaker II: The Return of FileMaker Pro

It has been many years since I have used FileMaker Pro. In fact, I all but swore it off the last time I used it. Why? Well, back then I was still self-employed and one of our first clients wanted to take an existing FileMaker Pro application and turn it into a web app. [...]

Template creation

It’s the part of putting up a website that I have the most trouble with – designing the template. While can code a website (almost entirely) from scratch, the graphics and their layout are not my forte. So, I rely upon other to do their magic and voila, templates galore. Not exactly. [...]

Volunteer/Ministry Scheduling

It’s the inevitable question for any ministry coordinator – “Sorry to call you so late this (Saturday) evening, but I won’t be at church tomorrow, maybe you can find someone else to replace me”. No matter how many times you offer a ministry roster and remind all involved that locating their replacement is their [...]

Writer’s Tools

As you can tell by the missives below, writing is not how I make money. I can write. Let’s leave it at that. However, there are many that have been blessed by God with that talent – my wife among them. To those folks, I say, “Thanks for the hard work. [...]

Getting to know someone else’s machine

I am currently looking over documents on a former colleague’s machine. He left for another position last week and I have been tasked with locating and editing any number of file he left behind. The struggle is using the new version of Word (2008). I am frustrated with Microsoft’s methodology and movement [...]