Stupid People Killing My Sanity

So, I head out to the local mall (a most wretched hive of scum and villany), for a quick refresher on the wardrobe.  A couple nicer pair of jeans and some button-down shirts (orginally $30/ea, on sale for $8 FTW!) later and I’m good to go.

Yesterday I go into one of my lovely institutions of employment only to be told that a “business casual” dress code is being implemented and the new digs I just shelled out for won’t cut it.

Wardrobe FAIL

Stupid People Keeping My Sanity

Several months ago, I re-designed the website for one of our local Presbyterian churches.  I used WordPress to build the site, allowing sermons, announcements, and events to all be posted easily by the church staff themselves.  The front page of the site has Google Maps integrated for directions, there’s a search feature on the site for lost people, and there’s a calendar that dynamically pulls events from MyChurchEvents.com.

That’s a lot of detail, but stay with me here.

I got an email from the pastor of said church earlier this morning…here’s the details:

Hey —,

Just wanted you to see what other folks are up to.  I don’t get too many of
these, but when I got this I thought of you.  Grace and peace,

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—–Original Message—–
From:—————————-
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 9:33 AM
To:—————————-
Subject: Your Church Website

Pastor ——,

I was wondering if anyone has been planning a redesign of the church
Website to either make look more up to date, have it better represent the
church or add new features to it (like online tithing, integration to
Google Map/Directions, automated electronic mailing list for
announcements/communications, online audio player for sermons, blogs,
interactive commenting, event invitation/management, automated photo
gallery, search feature, ability to sell church t-shirt/merchandise,
graphical website traffic statistics, etc.).

Also, are the church leaders and/or staff able to edit the Website content
themselves and keep information up to date and fresh? If the church is
unable to edit its own content then it may be beneficial to add to the
site a user-friendly system that allows leaders and/or staff at all levels
to just login in and edit the pages and text themselves through a word
processor-like interface.

I’m working for a Christian owned web and graphic design small business
where my supervisor is a partial tent-making church planter and pastor
that wants to see churches able to use leading edge but user friendly
Internet technology to build up kingdom of God.

Let me know if any of this may be beneficial for the church.

Blessings,

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I LOL’ed excessively…

Is this spam or just a 30-something who lost his job and is trying to make it on his own because he read through the W3C’s HTML tutorials?

Look at that list of features.  90% of those features are included in blogging software.  WordPress IS bogging software.  Therefore: WordPress includes 90% of those features.  Did this guy even LOOK at the site?  Wordpress sites are not hard to spot, and I don’t try to hide the fact that I use that package as often as possible.

“online tithing”:  So Paypal has a 10% auto-donate now?

Google Maps Integration?  Did you see the homepage?  That big map of the church that takes you to the corresponding Google Maps Page?  How much more integrated can you get!?

And then he goes on to say that could “add to the site a user-friendly system that allows leaders and/or staff at all levels to just login in and edit the pages and text themselves through a word processor-like interface.”

IT. IS. BLOGGING. SOFTWARE.  If it wasn’t retardedly easy for a monkey with polio to post and edit content, nobody would use it!

Then there’s last paragraph that scares the hell out of me:  First of all, the white guy in me wants to correct your grammar.  It’s “who wants to see…” not “that wants to see…”.

Second of all the phrase: “…leading edge but user friendly Internet technology to build up kingdom of God.”  Seriously?  Do you know the demographics of Presbyterian church’s around here?  My estimate is that 80% of the congregation would shit their pants at the thought of using “leading edge technology.”  And not because they’ve lost control of their bodily functions…

AND the intarwebs are already being used to build up said kingdom.  Check it:

Oh stupid people, you make me lol…