The Distributed Church

This weekend I had the opportunity to travel to Orlando to see Northland Church in action. It was so cool to see a church that really gets it, and how creatively they are knocking down so many barriers that stand between non-believers and them coming to Christ. They have done a great job of asking themselves “why cant we do that” and have very creatively figured out a distributed church model that really works that is taking the church to all parts of Florida and some overseas.

Terry Storch and I both were both taken back at how these guys really knew their stuff and were making it work. Storch wrote about this as well, and has some more details on how they pull this off technically and what it means to do distributed church on his blog.

Security Task Manager

We ran across this utility the other day while trying to troubleshoot an issue so I thought I would pass it along.

Security Task Manager is an enhanced task manager, that provides advanced information about programs and processes running on the computer. It displays all the standard information, including file name, directory path, description, CPU usage etc. as well as a unique security risk rating. The security risk rating is based on an analysis that takes different aspects of the process into consideration, and indicates the likelihood of the process being potential spyware, malware or a Trojan. This indicator is purely based on generic analysis, and does not use any signature files, so it is open to interpretation by the (advanced) user. Security Task Manager also displays the start time, the icon of the process, hidden functions and more. It can recognize virtual driver software, services and also BHOs or processes hidden from the Windows task manager. You can choose to terminate any process, delete it, or alternately quarantine it, which will disable it from running again without actually deleting it. Overall, a very useful TaskManager for novice and advanced users alike, that provides many unique features.