Sun
May
25
2008
Your know you're home when...
You know the feeling: You’ve been away on holiday or a another trip, you head home, the car (or for us, car and trailer) is loaded up, you reach your driveway, pull in, open up the house and start unloading.
But you know you’re really home when … what is it for you?
For me it’s when the espresso machine (all 35Kg of it) is back in place in the kitchen, the water supply hooked up, the Mazzer grinder is in place, and the whole kit is warming up, ready for the first ‘spresso back home.
That was today for me. Returning ‘home’ after eight weeks leave…
Tue
May
20
2008
More on technology, ministry and relationships
Kev McCord has written up a really helpful approach to using email in a ministry context
Sat
May
17
2008
'Spooks' returns
Last night was a good night! Spooks returned to ABC1.
Along with the return of ‘Silent Witness’, it made a great night’s TV viewing.
Mon
May
12
2008
Springwood Street Champions
It’s good to see that things have pushed on at SWAC while I’ve been away, and that we are among the first to launch a key part of the Diocesan-wide Connect 09 strategy.
Mon
May
05
2008
Technology, relationships and minstry
The old ‘technology is impersonal’ argument has been raised again over at Solapanel, and it has succeeded in stirring me to words…
I could have left a comment on the blog, but preferred to write more fully here…
Sun
May
04
2008
Xobni - interesting Outlook addin
I live a good part of my life by Outlook.
For work it is absolutely indispensable. We don’t have Exchange or anything fancy like that, but it keeps my entire calendar, an extensive task list, and all of the 200-300 emails I receive in a typical day.
I use email a heap for work and pleasure. While email doesn’t replace talking with someone in person or by phone, email still greases the wheels of relationships and keeps organisational issues under control.
Which is why I’m rather interested in a new add-in for Outlook called Xobni. It appears to help organise and and ‘connect the dots’ with my email…
Mon
Apr
28
2008
Avoiding problems when changing web hosts - Email
This is another useful trick to use when changing web servers (hosts) that I want to document:
When you change web servers, you need to change your domain to to point to your new host’s name servers. That in itself is simple: you log in to your domain registrar and change the nameserver setting to that of your new host.
But then there is a frustrating period of time called “propagation”. Propagation is the time it takes from when you make a change to your domain name pointers for all the DNS servers around the world. This time is usually from 4 to 48 hours, depending on how fast the DNS server you/your ISP uses updates.
But what happens to email sent to you during that propagation period?
Here’s how not to lose it…
