Why I’m Not An Early Adopter

I admit it–I don’t have an iPad. My MacBook is the old style, white, not aluminum uni-body design. I didn’t have a smart phone until the iPhone 3GS was out. And then only because the rest of my team forced us to get them. I’m a big believer in having the right tools for the […]

Disaster–Email Black Hole

Yesterday, Friday, all of us on the team realized that we weren’t getting any email. Email normally comes in at a fairly steady clip all day every day, and yet there was nothing nohow nowhere. We figured out the problem and got it fixed, but the end result is that there was an email black hole between Thursday […]

Video Challenge Day Eight

Day eight! It’s like the end of Hanukah, except there’s one more day. 🙂 Today was my day to experiment with B roll. If you don’t know what b roll is, watch this video that BrantC showed me. Today I dug into strategy, spirituality, living in the moment, and planning. In other words… is strategy […]

Video Challenge Day Seven

Did it! Finished day seven of my two week video challenge. (If you’re curious what this is, and to see the other days, check out day one.) I must admit that there’s only one thing I like about this video: I filmed it in the rain. I enjoyed the heck out of that. Everything else… […]

Video Challenge Day Six

Hey folks, This was the most challenging day yet of my two week video challenge (to get the big picture, and for a list of all the videos, check out day one). Today I had to prep for and teach a class, and I had to keep my word to myself about this video challenge. […]

Video Challenge Day Five

It’s Monday, and Day Five of my two week video challenge. (If you want to read about it and see the first one, as well as a list of all the days, read/watch day one here.) Today the whole family slept late. The boys and my wife Holly didn’t wake up until almost 9am, and […]

Video Challenge Day Four

Wow, I did it! Four days in a row, one video each day. I’m amazed. (If you’re wondering what this is about, check Day One.) Today I had a hankering to work the whiteboard in, and had to figure out how to light it without creating a monstrous glare. I did it moderately well, although […]

Video Challenge Day Three

Third day is happening just under the wire! A late night last night because the kiddoos didn’t really want to sleep so much, and so a late morning, and things got crammed… So I filmed in the afternoon instead of the morning, and even as I write this iMovie is processing and uploading. Then, the […]

Video Challenge Day Two

It’s the second day of my two-week video challenge. This video was done in about 99,000 takes, thanks to my not understanding the basics of lighting. Finally I got the lighting done right, and you could see me. Which may or may not be a good thing. I didn’t go overboard with the iMovie effects […]

Video Challenge: Day One

I try to make a practice of catching onto the latest thing no sooner than ten years late. I’m breaking that a little here by picking up video only several years after it became easy to do. I realized that I freeze up around getting video done. I keep not getting it done, except in […]