James Lao

A new home

James Lao — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 08:04:04 +0000

No, I’m not moving to a new house, but I am moving my blog! You can now find me at jameslao.com so update your bookmarks, feeds, and blogrolls folks! See ya on the other side. :)

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InvenTeams

James Lao — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 00:06:44 +0000

My school was awarded the InvenTeam grant from MIT. It’s kind of ironic that we wrote our invention proposal in about two weeks while most other teams had several months. Anyways, we got the grant and we get to go to MIT in June to present our invention.

Happy 8th birthday Google

James Lao — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 05:41:55 +0000

It’s hard to believe how much you’ve grown these last eight years. Happy birthday. :)

My Nintendo DS Lite

James Lao — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 23:16:07 +0000

So I recieved my Nintendo DS Lite yesterday… Isn’t it pertty? Looks like the offspring of an iPod and a regular DS. There’s one more picture after the jump.

Hiatus

James Lao — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 01:39:04 +0000

As you can tell, I haven’t posted in a very very long while. Mostly because I’ve been so busy. School has started and the teachers are piling homework like there’s no tomorrow. I’ve done some stuff though… For one, I’ve managed to push out two PGZine Mini issues. The first one was written by me and the second by my good friend Mitchell Dyer. The third should be coming soon; I’m not sure when though.

My Killzone: Liberation demo came in today too. It’s pretty good. The controls take a while to get used to though. It’s difficult to do precision aiming with the analog disc. There’s a lot of cool weapons like the crossbow with exploding arrows. I couldn’t find a rocket launcher sadly… Although I did get shot at by a rocket launcher wielding Helghast. I can’t wait for the game to come out.

Backend Coding

James Lao — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 16:12:03 +0000

So what have I been up to? I’ve been doing some backend coding for Perooz.com. More specifically, a WordPress extension that will help manage all content that is posted and make the entire process as smooth as possible. Cool, I know. Too bad very few people will ever get to see it. :)

Italy wins the 2006 FIFA World Cup

James Lao — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 21:05:03 +0000

Italy beats France in the 2006 FIFA World Cup after two 15 minute overtimes during the penalty kick shootout. Good job Italy. :)

My whereabouts…

James Lao — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 06:42:33 +0000

Yes, I’m still alive. Just have been busy doing other stuff. I’ve been learning PHP/MySQL for the past couple weeks. Its really not that hard, its designing the application that’s the tough part. Luckily, I think I’ve found the perfect book to solve that. If all goes well, I might custom code a blog and get it hosted somewhere. After all, no point in learning PHP without a server to show off your l33t skillz is there? :)

I’ve also been doing some stuff for Perooz.com lately. Making PSP formatted magazines specifically. Since I make them for myself anyways, I figured I would let others read them as well. Each magazine takes about 10-20 minutes to make, depending on how long the article is and how many times I screw up. I’ve messed up twice so far which isn’t good in my book. I have a high quality standard for all my work. Luckily, the last two I created were flawless (I think) so it looks like I’m getting the hang of it.

That’s it for me. I’m taking a trip next week so don’t expect any new posts. Oh, and I plan on creating a custom header for this blog when I get back…

Google testing another new interface?

James Lao — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 23:23:01 +0000

Look what I ran into while surfing the interweb. I think its a new page layout they're testing and they show it every once in a while. When you click on "More you can do with Google" a menu appears with links too services such as Google Images that you would normally find right above the search bar.

Although I'm not a big fan of the current interface, I would have to say this is a step in the wrong direction. I think having links right above the search bar is much more convenient.

Sorry if this is old news, but I've never seen this one before. :)

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Google Spreadsheet

James Lao — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 01:35:38 +0000

Well, I got invited to Google Spreadsheet, Google’s newest product. It’s a “limited test” so not everybody who wants to use it can. I just happen to be one of the lucky ones that got chosen. I may do a review of it after final exams for the few that read this blog…

In the mean time, you can read TechCrunch’s review of Google Spreadsheet.