http://jameslow.com Live. Work. Play. WORSHIP. Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:26:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I wrote a post a while ago about how it can be a tad annoying being asked to fix people's computers. I recently found this on digg that illustrates it: http://jameslow.com/2008/11/18/computers-again/ At church and youth we have several rosters in excel for keeping track of who's doing what and when. I've wanted for a while to make a rostering app that would automatically create a roster, assigning a set of users to different tasks at different frequencies for a set period ... http://jameslow.com/2008/11/15/google-spreadsheet-to-ical/ "I think being practically right is most important." - James Low "Well I think being theoretically right is most important." - Lillian Li "Ok, well theoretically speaking being theoretically right is most important, but practically speaking being practically right is most important." James Low "Agreed." - Lillian Li http://jameslow.com/2008/11/11/shouting-match/ More promos for Dawen, this time a performance of my favourite song of his: http://jameslow.com/2008/11/07/more-dawen/ My friend and former band mate Dawen Wang just posted an interview he did for an asian-american internet show. How long before we see an asian-american president. We are the majority of the world after all! In other news Carlos Choi's band Still just launched there new album, and it ROCKS! http://jameslow.com/2008/11/06/dawen-a-list-tv/ YouTube Feed is a plugin that allows you to embed a youtube video with a blog post, and have it show up as a link url when imported into your Facebook notes. More info here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/youtube-feed/ http://jameslow.com/2008/11/06/youtube-feed/ Most of the desktop applications I'm working on are based around a crossplatform java template that I'm writing, that basically makes java applications feel as native to the user as possible. It also has a sophisticated Ant build build file that provides automation for a lot of tasks including creating ... http://jameslow.com/2008/09/29/limegreen-released/ Listened to this sermon recently, and while like every talk I wouldn't agree with everything about it, still I thought it was pretty good and made me think. Things I realiesd, I'm a creatue or habbit to some degree, I like ordering the same food from the places I eat, I ... http://jameslow.com/2008/08/20/creativity/ I randomly came across this blog the other day. Kind of the antithesis of my blog, mine being minimalist (apple inspired) white, compared to the explosion of colour that presents itself at bealivebelievebeyou.com, and if I scanned in my handwritten journal entries for you to read, all that would be ... http://jameslow.com/2008/08/18/nice-blog/ Haha, two 'work' posts in a row! As some of you may know, wordpress 2.6 broke podpress, the great podcasting plugin for wordpress. There were several 'fixes' that people found after, but basically all of them involved disabling revisions in the new version of wordpress. I then discovered this forum ... http://jameslow.com/2008/08/18/podpress-and-wordpress-26-fix-with-revisions/ Ok, if you subscribe to my blog for personal reasons, this isn't very relevant to you, but for those of you here for the programming, on a recent project I had some problems getting the BIT field in MySQL to be interpreted as a boolean in PHP. There are a ... http://jameslow.com/2008/08/12/mysql-bit-in-php/ When I quit my full time job so that I could do livewire, I wrote a post outlining some goals now that I had more time to do things. As it turns out 2007 was one of the best years of my life, and I learnt far more about life ... http://jameslow.com/2008/07/23/life-matters/ I know I'm obsessed with Apple products but the iPhone is seriously cool. So far I'm loving having email where ever I am and the facebook app is cool too. I've just installed the new wordpress app, and I'm blogging to you from my iPhone. The picture is taken with it ... http://jameslow.com/2008/07/22/love-the-iphone/ Gave a talk at SR about Love, how it should be with no preconditions or agendas, partly inspired by Donald Miller BLJ and this interview from Anberlin's Steven Christian. I'm not like this, but we all should be. [coolplayer width="200" height="20" autoplay="0" loop="0" charset="utf-8" download="0" mediatype=""] http://web.thejoyfm.com/cruise/lightforce/steveninterview.mp3 [/coolplayer] http://jameslow.com/2008/07/22/what-we-all-should-be/ I've realised I need to finally make a stand on this: No I will not fix your computer. I especially won't fix it over the phone. This to me is the most frustrating thing in the universe, and it is not good for me, or good for our friendship. There ... http://jameslow.com/2008/07/19/no-i-will-not-fix-your-computer/ Words that You didn't say were haunting these pages Faces You didn't make were all I was seeing The way that they painted You wasn't a picture of one in control - and I don't think they know who you are Mainstay http://jameslow.com/2008/07/02/these-pages/ In a small private press conference in Fo Tan, HK, political heavyweights James Low, Lillian Li and James Lewis added their name to the growing list of Obama endorsements. There were some fears that such a close political alignment could cause division in the Sunday Lunch Bunch special interest group, but ... http://jameslow.com/2008/06/21/obama-endorsement/ So, for those of you that know me know I think, ALOT, and in the process I come up with lots of ideas. I'm also the type of person that tries to do EVERYTHING and too much. After listening to my Pastor's (excellent) latest sermon on time, I've decided I ... http://jameslow.com/2008/06/09/business-ideas/ So those of you that know me, will know I say this a lot. But I just listened to this talk and it blew my mind. Never understood anything from relveation as clearly as the exposition on the part of revelation to the Ephisans. Its by Rob Bell (haha suprise ... http://jameslow.com/2008/05/09/jesus-and-domitian/ All I have is a voice To undo the folded lie The lie of authority Who's buildings grope the sky No one exists alone Hunger allows no choice to the citizen or police We must love one another or die, We must love one another or die WH Auden http://jameslow.com/2008/04/24/tuesdays/ I really bad a a few things, accepting love and complements, and saying thank you is another. But in an attempt to do all of them I'm writing this post and hopefully honouring everything and everyone did and said in the best way I can; To simply say its a sign ... http://jameslow.com/2008/03/18/thank-you/ Some of you may no that I've been trying to slow down a bit recently. I realised that I had become so task focused not people and God focused, was lacking intimacy with people, and it was leading to generally not a very healthy life. I decided I was going to ... http://jameslow.com/2008/03/14/the-philosophical-implications-of-stepping-on-that-crunchy-looking-leaf/ Here are a few pointless sites on the internet: http://www.isitaprilfools.com/ http://www.isitchristmas.com/ http://www.isitaleapyear.com/ http://www.istwitterdown.com/ http://jameslow.com/2008/02/08/pointless-sites/ As most of you know, I've wanted an iPhone since forever, but I'm waiting for it to be released "officially" for various reasons; the sdk, upgrades, and 3G. Hong Kong is one of those places that you can quite easily get them unlocked, but even I was suprised are seeing a ... http://jameslow.com/2008/02/07/iphone-hk/ Ok, latest wordpress plugin. I'm getting quite into these. The other two were modifications. This one is completely from scratch. There are several plugins to make a blog private, making it a good tool for basic collaboration / group ware. However file attachments / images have still been visible too ... http://jameslow.com/2008/01/28/private-files/ Just a quick one from me today. The pianist and amazing singer I used to play with in school has started performing / recording in chicago, and doing some amazing stuff. Check it out at dawenwangmusic.com or his MySpace. http://jameslow.com/2008/01/10/dawen-wang/ This is my latest facebook app T-Shirt Gifts (http://apps.facebook.com/tshirt_gifts/. Its similar to other gift apps on facebook, but we have some great designs courtesy of cafepress.com and you can really buy the gifts and own the T-Shirt if you want! Add the app and tell all your friends to add ... http://jameslow.com/2008/01/06/t-shirt-gifts/ Ok, latest wordpress plugin modification. This time its of L. Fargue's Restrict categories plugin. Users are assigned permissions to view posts in certain categories If users don't have permission to certain posts, those posts aren't shown, including in the main view and archives. Categories can be made public to everyone, and there is ... http://jameslow.com/2007/12/02/allow-categories/ I'm loving this album right now. It started with Surely We Can Change on Repeat 1 (95 plays) then Everything Glorious (85), but now The Glory Of It All is on everywhere I go. Neverending is cool too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ2Fvov7--s http://jameslow.com/2007/12/01/remedy/ Hey, This is just a quick not to ask you to add my friends app Alter Ego http://apps.facebook.com/profile/ Its an app similar to your profile, but your friends edit it not you. Please spread the news and add edit as many other people as you can. If any of you know ... http://jameslow.com/2007/11/23/alter-ego/ I'm launching an IP address service. With my web hosting it basically costs me nothing, and it might get some ads clicked. Check it out here: http://hey.getmyip.com http://jameslow.com/2007/11/20/hey-get-my-ip/ For a while I've been using Adam Hill's facebook comment importer, to get comments from facebook back in to my blog. I recently realised it wasn't working, so I tried Thomas Albright's edit, no joy there either. Did some debugging and got it working my self. You can download it ... http://jameslow.com/2007/11/18/wordpress-plugin-facebook-comments/ I just listen to Donald Miller (Blue Like Jazz) talk at Mars Hill (Rob Bell's church) about Stories. About instead of worrying about what you're doing right or wrong, but worrying about writing a good story with your life. You can get the talk at the Mars Hill page or ... http://jameslow.com/2007/11/16/donald-miller-story/ This was something I've been meaning to do for ages, move things from my old site to here. I've started with the play section. Added - bass / dumble / fuzz / jazz 101 / music http://jameslow.com/2007/11/06/play-update/ Ok, I've just started work on new look for the site. There are a few things like archives and stuff that I need to fix, so please be patient, but hopefully it will be more 'me' than the old design. http://jameslow.com/2007/11/04/fresh-look/ I've been working on a presentation management program for a while. Its cross platform java, but designed to feel as native as possible on whatever system you use. Its very early stages yet, and has a lot further to go, but feel free to try it out. The icon was by ... http://jameslow.com/2007/11/04/limelight-released/ Haha, ok so I had all this stuff I wanted to write on my blog, but it all seemed a bit too heavy for how I was feeling the last two days so I didn't update anything. And now I'm kinda missing it, do here's some random stuff going on ... http://jameslow.com/2007/08/10/random/ So here's a first, me blogging two days in a row, but habits (good and bad), take 30 days to form, so don't get too excited yet. I'm half trying to stop biting my nails too... Forgot to mention in my last post that I'm going to have... wait for it... ... http://jameslow.com/2007/08/07/updates-galore/ haha, ok, so I really don't update this thing enough, I just plain suck at blogging. but today driving to my Grandma's I decided I should. I've had a lot of ideas going in through my head since reading velvet elves / blue like jazz, and i thought I'd just ... http://jameslow.com/2007/08/06/most-amazing-blogger-ever/ So, its been brewing for quite a while now, starting I guess with ideas about social justice, fairtrade, but branching, growing, flowering into just seeing how Jesus lived his life, and the way he looked at the world, and realising as good as Christianity and the Church maybe, we aren't ... http://jameslow.com/2007/01/29/just-love/ And I’m trying to make you sing From inside where you believe Like it’s something that you need Like it means everything And I’m trying to make you feel that This is for real, that life is happening That it means everything I’m just trying to make you sing -David Crowder Go listen to it if you haven't... http://jameslow.com/2007/01/22/the-lark-ascending/ Ok, so maybe I do have time to blog now that I'm no longer working at Investment bank, but time is still a funny thing. Not having to work a full time job, should give me 50 extra hours a week? But for some reason I still don't feel like ... http://jameslow.com/2006/11/21/time-to-blog/ Thought I'd write one more thing before I go to bed, trying to upload 200 photos from Church Camp (THANKS MIKAELA, I think...) Again that was a while ago, and once I've caught up with my own life, I'll be sure to let everyone know. I mean't to go to ... http://jameslow.com/2006/11/17/still-catching-up/ Ok, so this actually happened on the 27th of September, but I forgot to write about it, or didn't get round to it, or something. But anyway, I SO should have. It was a great event, amazing how people offered to praying being asked, probably only 7 hours before they ... http://jameslow.com/2006/11/17/syatp/ AWESOME! God did some amazing things at the Here To Eternity youth camp. SO SO good to see all the youth jumping and going crazy for Jesus. Janakan did an amazing job organising it in such a short time, and Carlos is just gifted at leading people into a deep ... http://jameslow.com/2006/11/02/here-to-eternity/ Ok, I've finally had some time to think about my last post, and realised how stupid it was, of couse 2005 seems so long ago, cause i posted that in August. 2006 has passed so quick, and now it's October!!! CRICKEY !!! Anyway so a lot's happened this year as well, ... http://jameslow.com/2006/10/16/2006/ Ok 2005 seems AGES ago now. 2006 has been passing too quickly for me. Still 2005 was an AMAZING year for, had a blast, so I thought I'd better back date my blog and include what happened: February - Tahoe 2005Tahoe July - Hillsong July - Cebu Mission Trip July - Lester's Wedding October - Pip's Wedding October - Sohoctober Overall I took 9 return flights (18 in total) spending time in England, Japan, Philippines, Singapore, America, Australia and of ... http://jameslow.com/2006/08/11/2005/ Ok, so I FINALLY gave in and created a blog for myself. I avoided having a mobile for my whole time at uni, which turned out to be a mistake, so hoepfully I haven't hopped on the band wagon too late this time. So prepare yourself for a rollercoaster ride through my life and more ... http://jameslow.com/2006/08/10/finally/