Matt McCook from Xirrus has offered to do a presentation on high-density WiFi and how their products can meet these needs starting at noon on July 17 at JFBC.  We have been using Xirrus products at JFBC for just over a year now and have been extremely happy with the performance and reliability of the Xirrus solution.  You can read about our initial deployment on the Xirrus Site.  I’m excited to be able to have Matt come and share their solution with other Atlanta area Church IT guys.  If you have a need for a high-density WiFi solution and would like to join us, please drop me a note at derek.schwab@jfbc.org or post a comment.

Wow!  It’s time for the July update on my House Pay-Off Spectacular and am PUMPED about it.  It still feels kind of silly to get so excited about coloring in squares in Photoshop, but I’m thrilled with what God has givin me.  He has truly blessed me with way more than I deserve.

It looks like there will actually end up being a couple of unexpected months of overlap between the green and the pink due to the fact some of the pink $$$ is in CD’s and not immediately accessible.  It’s still awesome though!

Total Squares: 562
Paid-For Squares: 308 323
Savings to be committed to mortgage: 232
Squares Remaining: 22 7

I’m seeing an interesting, and seemingly recurring issue with one particular user’s Exchange calendar.  The complain is always that when a new appointment is added to the calendar, it disappears a minute or two later.  The event log on the Exchange Server always shows these errors:

Calendaring agent failed with error code 0×80040215 while saving appointment.

Calendaring agent failed to update the free/busy cache during an appointment save or delete operation.

Calendaring agent failed in message save notification with error 0×800703eb on XXXX@jfbc.org: /Calendar/test.EML.

I’ve tested, researched, tried to reproduce, etc, etc and am at a loss as to what’s causing this.  The only thing I can think of is maybe it’s related to syncing the users Palm Pilot.  Maybe the Palm device is allowing something to be input that Exchange doesn’t like?

I have figured out that there is some corrupt record that exists in the mailbox that’s causing this.  Moving the mailbox to another database and then back clears things up for a while, then it pops back up.  I’m curious if anyone else out there has seen anything like this?

I’ve just started reading through the Psalms, viewing them through the eyes of a leader - applying them to my life.  Here are a few things I’ve learned tonight:

Psalm 1:1-6: God allows me to chose the road I follow.  I can “stand” with sinners or stand with God.  To stand with God, I must find delight in the law of the Lord - by meditating on it day and night.  Awesome - but not always easy.  In fact, it’s sometimes down right hard.

Psalm 3:4,4:3-5,5:1-6: Turn to the Lord first, put all my trust in him, and fully rely on him.  Pray about EVERYTHING.  Pray honestly.  Jeremiah’s Prayer was so honest it’s scary.

Psalm 7:17: Thank the Lord for his rightousness and sing praises to his name.

Psalm 8:1-2,9:1: Give God ALL the glory.  It’s not about me.  Praise him with all of my heart.  Tell of his wonders.

Psalm 10:1-18: God sometimes seemingly moves away - withdraws - often at times when we need him most.  Is he just sitting back watching and not caring?  Or not watching at all?  He doesn’t always stop us when we start to run away.  Has he really stepped back?  No - we just need to move closer to him.