{"id":324,"date":"2008-12-18T14:55:35","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T18:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.shieldsgroup.com\/?p=324"},"modified":"2024-05-07T17:26:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T21:26:45","slug":"do-you-trust-your-it-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/18\/do-you-trust-your-it-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Trust Your IT Guy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think I have some trust issues.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude10<\/strong><\/p>\n

As a pastor, I rely heavily on my laptop computer and having just been the victim of some theft, I asked my son, a computer engineering student, to create a program that will help track down stolen PCs and devices.\u00a0 He handed me the prototype and said, “Dad — execute this code and see if it works.”<\/p>\n

So, as he stood behind me, I began backing up my “Current Documents” folder to my USB drive.\u00a0 “Dad,” he said, “this isn’t going to delete your data.\u00a0 I’m a little insulted.”\u00a0 I laughed and told him the data was very important. After all, this Sunday is Christmas Sunday and I have my sermon almost completed.<\/p>\n

Then he said the funniest line I’ve heard in a while:<\/strong> “Dad — this would be like if every time you got up and preached I prayed, “‘God — please protect me from false teaching!'”<\/p>\n

He got me there! I really need to begin to trust my IT guy.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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