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First iPhone Blog

kyleike2 — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:59:21 +0000

I just installed the new iPhone WordPress app. I really like how easy it was to set up. It has a nice interface and makes blogging from my iPhone a breeze. I hope that in future updates I can manage comments (since I get so many). If you use WordPress and an iPhone, you should download it quickly.. you can’t beat the price.

buckhead church sucks pit shaving girl video

kyleike2 — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:59:02 +0000

Got your attention. I get a little addicted to checking my stats on Google analytics. It is a big deal to me if I have 17 people read one day vs 15 the day before. 2 more site visits, YES! Besides all sorts of features including map overlay of visitors, tracking content that is being viewed and how long, and showing the sites that have directed traffic to mine Google analytics has a really cool feature that gives you keywords that were typed into a search engine that resulted in someone visiting my blog. Here are some of my recent favorites:

cholosteatoma (I’ve had one of these)
gerald mcraney (huh?!)
all for love you gave it all for love with every drop of blood lyrics (obvious)
ammoral meaning (not sure)
sufjan stevens kaskaskia river (maybe from my last.fm)
capresso infinity (I love my new espresso machine)
pit shaving girl video (wow. first, why search for this. second, how’d they end up here?)
buckhead church sucks (funny how words get combined. for the record I’ve never typed these words in this order on this blog…until now)

Silly Trivia (I did it anyways)

kyleike2 — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:54:28 +0000

How many songs in your itunes/ipod/music player: 5690Sort by song title:
-First Song: A-Hunting We Will Go – Hem
-Last Song: 1976 – Pedro the Lion

Sort by album:
-First Album: The Absent Sounds of Me – Dear Ephesus
-Last Album: 88 – The 77′s

Sort by artist:
-First Artist: Aaron Sprinkle
-Last Artist:100 Portraits and Waterdeep

First Playlist:
-Name: 4th (a playlist I made for last 4th of July)
-First song: Cherry Bomb – The Choir
-Last Song: Gorgeous – The Violet Burning

First 10 songs on Shuffle:

1. This Stupid Song – Damien Jurado
2. Motion Picture Soundtrack – Radiohead
3. Kaskaskia River – Sufjan Stevens
4. What If Uncle Ben Had Lived – Poor Old Lu
5. The Scientist – Coldplay
6. Maybe – Alison Krauss & Union Station
7. Make It a Part – Further Seems Forever
8. Near You – Shadowalk
9. There Is Power – Damien Jurado
10. Skin Is, My – Andrew BirdUse the first songs on shuffle to answer the following:

What does next year have in store for me?
Happy Everafter in Your Eyes- Ben Harper

What does your love life look like?
Hometown Boy – Over the Rhine

What do I say when life gets hard?
Somedays – Matt Wertz

What song will I dance to at my wedding?
Meaningless – Sixpence None the Richer (Now that’s sad. Good thing I’m already married)

Your favorite saying?
Cowards Never Win – Waterdeep (not bad)

What do you think of your parents?
Ghost Train (To Nowhere) – Lost Dogs (Sorry Mom and Dad, not true)

Where would you go on a first date?
The Bends – Radiohead (hmmmmm)

Describe yourself:
New Way To Be Human – Switchfoot (I’m what you call “different”)

What is the thing you like doing most?
Riddle of Stars – Unwed Sailor

How will you die?
Goodnight Rose – Ryan Adams (Is that some sort of poison?)

The song that will be played at your funeral?
The Clouds Are All The Same – Cush (I guess when you look up that’s what it looks like)

kyleisenhower.com

kyleike2 — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:58:58 +0000

I don’t know why I hadn’t thought of it before, but last night I was reading a post at avclub about how Ken found out that kenwilson.com was owned by one of those domain parking companies and that it would cost him $2500 to buy it! As far as I can tell there is no other Kyle Isenhower (with same spelling) in existence, so last night I snatched up the domain before it was too late. Right now it is just redirecting to isenhowers.com, so there is really no change, but I do like being able to tell people to go to kyleisenhower.com better than saying isenhowerS.com, which is a little confusing. So, all that said if you want to visit my blog you can now go to www.isenhowers.com OR www.kyleisenhower.com .

Church Media Blogroll II

kyleike2 — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:07:41 +0000

So, looking after posting about the church media blogroll a while back I realized something; all of the blogs on my cmb are of people that are pretty far away. Not really a problem when it comes to learning from what others are doing, but still, I felt like I needed to find some more church media blogs from people close to San Antonio or Austin. It has proven to be difficult. I’ve found a couple from the Dallas area, and even more from my old stomping grounds of OKC and Tulsa, but none in South Texas. I consider myself a pretty good googler (according to definitions 1-3) but I have been unable to find any blogs from San Antonio church media people. I find it hard to believe that they don’t exist, especially since according to SAworship.com there are 1313 churches listed their site. So the search is on for SA Church Media blogs. If you know of one (or are one) then be sure to let me know.

Stars

kyleike2 — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:37:26 +0000

I consume more than I create. Here is some stuff I’ve starred in my Google Reader lately.

My Daily Digital Toolbox (a response)

kyleike2 — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:08:26 +0000

A response to Ragamuffin Soul’s Post

What I use to get things done:

Tool Box

15″ Macbook Pro. 2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo w/ glossy screen
Mac Pro 3.0 Dual Quad-Core Intel Xeon (8-core) w/ 30′ Cinema Display
Canon XH-G1
Canon Digital Rebel XT (my personal camera)
iPhone
LowePro CompuDaypack
Shuttle Pro

Tools Online

Software Tools

Non-Digital Tools

I’m sure there is more, but these are the big ones. Takes longer than you think to list them. What about you?

Church Media Blogroll

kyleike2 — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:23:21 +0000

So I’ve added a new category to my blogroll. I really couldn’t come up with the perfect name for it, and just settled on Church Media Blogroll. Lately I have been cleaning out some blogs that I always “mark all as read” in Google Reader everytime there is something new. As a result of this purging, I also started to fill up a new category on GR, Church Media People. Clicking from person to person and on and on I found quite a few different blogs from people who are doing things similar to what I do. Everyone has different organizational structures, titles, and responsibilities; some are creative directors, service programming directors, creative pastors, video editors, and designers. The churches are all doing things differently when it comes to production and planning. In the end, though, they go through a lot of the same things I do, and I realize that I can learn a lot from hearing about their experiences. I also felt that since I read their blogs, I could at least give them a little props by linking to them, so my 7 subscribers could check them out and pad their gaudy followings.

That and Los asked me to.

I don’t want to grow up.

kyleike2 — Thu, 24 May 2007 20:00:20 +0000

I feel like I need to write. I keep intending to write on a myriad of topics… I actually have a long list of things to post right now, but I just don’t have the motivation to write right now. I need to be more disciplined in most areas of my life, and as that starts to develop, so will my discipline in blogging. So, I need to start playing less video games, watching less tv, reading more books, reading the Bible more, and spend more time being inspired. I’ll get to work on that after I finish playing a little Halo 2 and relaxing. Will I ever grow up?

Look! I changed my theme again!

kyleike2 — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:23:02 +0000

I liked my old WordPress theme “Connections Reloaded”, but I wasn’t completely satisfied. While I was mulling over whether to change it or not, Scott Austin asked me to help him set up a blog that he, Misty Jones, and I would all contribute to called ChurchRemix. Guess which theme he wanted? That’s right, “Connections Reloaded”. So, it pushed me over the edge to go ahead and change my theme. My new theme is adapted from “Fall Season”. The original header was a pretty picture of fall leaves, but of course I changed it. The pic is one I took when I first moved here to San Antonio of a church downtown.

This obviously then is also my push for churchremix.com, where I will be one of three contributors. I think it will help me separate what I blog where. It’s going to be hard to not double post some things though. Is that a blogging faux pas? We shall see I guess.