Magazine update - New Year this weekend

February 12th, 2007 • Buddhism, Life, temple

Well, the issue has been sent off to the printers. We hope it made it over in time. It’s a great deal larger than the average english section - everyone really came together on this.

Yay!!! It’s new years this weekend. More news on that to come….

Next issue of the magazine

February 10th, 2007 • Buddhism, temple

Well, the last issue was cancelled due to end of year busyness. So, we’ve gone ahead and used that month’s content, and added to it. I wish I would have had more time to write, and modify, but with life/work being as it is lately, that was just not possible.

Overall I’m still very happy we’ve received as much input from others to include. The group is really coming together for the content and that can only strengthen the magazine. I need to get the website to where it needs to go —- urgently. The people on 8apps have been quite helpful in sharing ideas when I posed a question about using Wordpress as a CMS. And I’m so thankful to all of them.

First issue is officially sent off to the printer

November 2nd, 2006 • Buddhism, temple

I’m happy to say, Wil and my first issue as editors of Buddha’s Light Magazine of Los Angeles is done. Venerable has sent it off to the printer, and I’ve posted it to the website. http://www.blmla.org

The website is being announced as well with this issue. This is quite exciting as it’s been a goal of mine for a while now to help the temple in this way. I’m still not completely satisfied with the look of the site, but, it is a work in progress. Joomla seems to be great in some ways, and completely horrid in others. It is in no way as intuitive as I would like. But I’m getting used to it. I should be able to continue to improve it over time.

Latest issue just finished

October 28th, 2006 • Buddhism, temple

Well, we just finished putting the final touches on the next issue of the magazine. I’ll keep you posted when we’re official and printed/online. It was quite fun to do, and I’m looking forward to many more.

Magazine update

September 22nd, 2006 • Buddhism, Life, tech, temple

So I’ve slowly become a little more comfortable with the Joomla! software. It’s a but un-intuative, but when you just sit and hack away at it, things seems to fall into place. Guess that’s not too far off from most software packages though. (expect the mac,, it does most everything as you’d expect it to; maybe I’m a little biased though. haha) I am quiet excited about the magazine website though - it’s going to be such a rewarding thing to do. I don’t ever expect recognition for this - I don’t need any - so not what it’s about. I do however, hope that the website becomes a tool for more people to get familiar with Hsi Lai Temple, and the Dharma. Even if only a few people - that would make it all worth it.

If I hadn’t posted it before, our URL will be http://www.blmla.org - Buddha’s Light Magazine of Los Angeles.