Hi and Welcome to MormonTechie.com.  I an avid technology lover and love to research new and evolving technologies… but unfortunately I have about a bazillion things going on in my life right now, so I am going to take a break from blogging for a while so I can focus on the things that are most important!

It is amazing how the death of someone near to you can impact your life and help you to evaluate where you are and where you are going.

That being said, I hope to return to blogging in about 6 months when I finish up some of the big projects I have going right now.  If you have any cool technology you think I would be interested in, please send it my way!  Feel free to explore past posts for some really cool stuff out there!

The Gospel is True!  What else Matters?

~Jeff VanDrimmelen
Chapel Hill 2nd Ward
Durham North Carolina Stake

…or by day…

Academic Computing Expert
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

I just read that ldsWebGuy just put up a website dedicated to President Hinckley.  This is awesome!  Newsroom stories, video’s of President Hinckley bearing his testimony, a nice timeline, and even notable talks.  Great, great great!

Here are a couple of BYU-TV Stuff about President Hinckley (from morning study and today’s proceedings!)

• “Gordon B. Hinckley: Man of Integrity”
• “Remembering Presdient Gordon B. Hinckley” with:
• Professors Brent Top and Robert Millet
• Richard Cowan
• BYU President Ceicl O. Samuelson
• Sheri L. Dew
• Funeral Services

It appears that some of these links are not working exactly right, but they should get you close and give you an idea of what is there. 

I came across this great video this morning…

So… can you imagine? Some great questions in a humorous format.

First thought has to do with all the things the man who crashed the internet was doing. What really got to me was the question about bloggers. I am not the best at writing in my journal, but I do write on our family blog fairly often. All of my pictures from the past 5 years are on there, not to mention our comings and goings. In light of my recent “Are Blogs Modern Day Scriptures?” this really makes me sick…

Just imagine the other effects something like this would have…

I am Mormon. I have been my whole life. That doesn’t mean I have never doubted, or that I didn’t have to come to a knowledge of God myself, but I’ll save that for another post. I am also a techie. I love technology and use it every day, practically all day long. I love to blog and maintain an instructional technology blog as well as MANY personal blogs for my family members.

As an avid blogger I also read a lot of blogs and one of my favorites is the More Good Foundation. The premise of their word is to “Promote good LDS content everywhere.” They often have great articles about using technology in the church and using technology to promote missionary work. They wrote a fantastic article today entitled: “Write fewer emails, more blog posts.” In that article Richard encourages people everywhere to put good content on the web. The Spirit has been working on me for several weeks with this exact same idea and I decided it is about time I joined in the effort.

So I took some of my lunch today (it doesn’t take long) and set up this blog. As I ponder about what I will write about I think this blog will have two main themes. First, I want to write about my thoughts and feelings about the Gospel. I often read something that I absolutely love. It may be music, a story, a quote, some scripture. Anything that is appropriate will go on here. The second thing I want to write about is my use of technology in the church. As I mentioned, I love technology and spend quite a bit of time researching new technologies. I often see great applications that could be used in the church as well. I only hope and pray that my writings may help someone better understand the church, or assist a member in this great work in which we are engaged!