Author: David Liddle

I grew up in Media, Pennsylvania, close to Philadelphia. I graduated from The Citadel in 1994. In 1995, I joined Wycliffe Bible Translators and have served in Africa, the United States, and Germany. Katherine and I were married in November 1998.

Check-IT-Out: Arlington, TX

The Seed Company is hosting a joint special event with Wycliffe Bible Translators called “Check-IT-Out” for information technology (IT) and software development professionals May 15 – 16, 2009 at The Seed Company, in Arlington, TX.

Conference topics include Introduction to the World of Wycliffe; Business Application Software; Language and Translation Support Software; Challenging Language Scripts; Telecommunication Challenges; International Training; demonstrations of cutting edge programs like the FieldWorks Suite and Speech Analyzer and a brief tour of the IT department at The Seed Company.

The May 15 -16, 2009 Check-IT-Out conference runs 1:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Friday through Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. The $100 registration fee includes three meals, snacks, and conference materials. Registration and more information is available at www.checkitout.org.

The conference in Arlington is part of a series of Check-IT-Out conferences. Currently Wycliffe has openings for close to 205 IT professionals worldwide.

Newsletter, April 2009

If you’re reading the posts on Liddles.net to keep up with our family and my work with Wycliffe, then you’re probably familiar with the content of the newsletter that we’ve now sent to people who prefer to get it in the mail. I’m posting it on the site as a PDF file so that you can get a print-ready copy for yourself or for people you know who are interested in our ministry. You can open, read, and print the file (use the link at the bottom) with Adobe Reader.

One thing that I want to add is that you should make sure that you keep software such as Adobe Reader fully patched to reduce the risk of your computer being attacked or infected through a bad file or a bug in the software. To check your computer for at-risk software, I recommend the scanning products from Secunia.

April 2009: A Liddle Good News

The Jesus Geek Creed

The following is the culmination of hearing people laud our skills after servicing their computers. We have it on a whiteboard here for all to see. This may just be a draft.

Despite what you might think, feel, or say:

We’re not geniuses …
We’re not magicians (it’s forbidden; Deut. 18:10-11) …
We’re not gods …
We’re not even “gurus” …

We are simply your brothers and sisters who know that things designed and built by fallen creatures (Romans 3:23), using materials from a planet subjected to frustration (Romans 8:20-21), are bound to break and fail.

And we’re dumb enough to fix them anyway.