Rue Plumet http://www.rueplumet.com Sun, 13 Jul 2008 01:17:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Interesting Sites For This Month http://www.rueplumet.com/2008/07/01/delicious-134/ http://www.rueplumet.com/2008/07/01/delicious-134/#comments Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:18:51 +0000 Brad http://www.rueplumet.com/2008/07/01/delicious-134/ Click “more” to see a list of all of the interesting web sites I found this month. I keep track of my favorite sites using del.icio.us, a free web site where you can access your favorite links from any computer and share them with friends. You can also see all of my favorite links (not just the ones from this month).

]]> http://www.rueplumet.com/2008/07/01/delicious-134/feed/ Jason Upton Followup http://www.rueplumet.com/2008/06/29/jason-upton-followup/ http://www.rueplumet.com/2008/06/29/jason-upton-followup/#comments Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:49:25 +0000 Brad http://www.rueplumet.com/?p=667 I was trying to find some place online where you can listen to Jason Upton’s music so you can hear maybe a little bit of the passion in his message. The 30 second preview snippets on Amazon just don’t do these songs justice. Thankfully, I found a few of his songs posted to YouTube, of all places. Here are two of the songs I mentioned in my previous post:

I Will Wait (actual recording from album with slideshow video)

Never Alone (live recording, lyrics a little different from the album)

And this is Joy’s favorite song of his: Faith (actual recording from album with slideshow video)

And this is another song that I did not mention in my previous post: Come Up Here (actual recording from album with worship dance video). You’ll have to click to see that one because embedding is disabled for that video.

]]> http://www.rueplumet.com/2008/06/29/jason-upton-followup/feed/ Jason Upton http://www.rueplumet.com/2008/06/29/jason-upton/ http://www.rueplumet.com/2008/06/29/jason-upton/#comments Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:05:28 +0000 Brad http://www.rueplumet.com/?p=666 Since I haven’t been posting much lately, you might guess that I must have something I really want to share. In this case that’s certainly true. As I think I have mentioned here before, I order a ton of stuff from Amazon, so their suggestion algorithm pretty frequently comes up with decent suggestions of other things I might be interested in. A couple of months ago it suggested a CD by Jason Upton. I had never heard of him before, but it looked like a Christian CD, so I went a read some of the reviews. This review was enough to get me to add the CD to my wishlist:

“Remember the first time you heard Keith Green? You knew you were listening to a minister who used music to get his message across, not an entertainer. That’s the same feeling you’ll get when listening to this CD. This was my introduction to Jason Upton, and I have to say, I was blown away. Almost every song on this CD will stop you in your tracks to listen. I have over 500 CDs, and I can safely say this one is my choice when I need something to help me find God in my day-to-day busy-ness. This is not mainstream radio music, as most of the tracks are well over 5 minutes long, but this is ministry.”

Fast forward a couple of months and it turns out that my mom got me Jason Upton’s “Faith” CD from my wishlist for father’s day. A few days later I pulled it up to listen to at work and pretty much stopped dead in my tracks. Unbelievable. God is at work though the music of Jason Upton. Full stop. It is by far the most amazing worship CD I have ever heard. I don’t know if it just meets me exactly where I am right now or what. I listed to the CD all day long, and all the next day, too. Then I went home and looked on Amazon for anything else by Jason Upton. They had two more CDs: “Great River Road” and “Beautiful People”. Joy’s mom had given me an Amazon gift certificate for father’s day, so I immediately ordered both of the other CDs. They came a couple of days later and I took them to work the very next day to listen to them. They were a couple of years newer than “Faith”, so the musical style was a bit different, but they still had the same amazing power of ministry to me. So that night I went home and scrounged the internet for anything else he might have done, maybe out of print CDs or something else. It turns out he also had eight more CDs that he had released independently (the three CDs I bought on Amazon were all on actual record labels, which is why Amazon had them). I found a place online that had all eight, so I ordered them on the spot. I’m still waiting for those to come in the mail, but in the interim I’ve been listening to the three CDs I have almost constantly.

It isn’t really so much music to sing along to (well some of the songs are, but certainly not all of them). In many ways it’s music to just listen to and let the truth speak over you. It’s music that makes me want to stop whatever I’m doing and just sit and listen. And while the musical style is not the same as Keith Green, Jason’s intensity and passion in his ministry is certainly similar. I just find the music and message extremely powerful and anointed. It makes me long to love and worship God with my whole heart. I’ve never heard music that speaks to me like this before in my life. I believe God is speaking directly to my heart through some of these songs. It’s almost like it was written just for me. So while I can’t claim that this is the perfect music for everyone, I can certainly say that is has touched my heart, and is continuing to do so. After the jump I’ve included some (partial) lyrics from a few of Jason’s songs.

  • Jason Upton’s web site
  • Jason Upton - Beautiful People (at Amazon)
  • Jason Upton - Faith (at Amazon)
  • Jason Upton - Great River Road (at Amazon)


    • Sons And Daughters (from “Beautiful People”)

    Do you know? You’re a word from heaven.
    Do you know? You’re a child of God.
    Do you really know?

    Every word sent down from heaven
    will not go back up
    until it’s succeeded
    in what he sent it to do.

    Do you know? You’re a word from heaven.
    Do you know? You’re a child of God.
    Do you really know?

    All of heaven is waiting.
    All creation is groaning.
    In expectation.
    Do you really know?

    Never Alone (from “Beautiful People”)

    Sometimes we feel so afraid.
    Sometimes we feel so alone.
    Sometimes we feel confused.
    Sometimes we feel so helpless.

    And we don’t know what to do.
    So hard to believe.
    I never heard the voice,
    of a father say to me:

    You’re not alone. You’re not alone.
    I never leave you. I never leave you.
    You’re not alone. You’re not alone.
    I never leave you. I never leave you.

    I’m not alone. I’m not alone.
    You never leave me. You never leave me.
    I’m not alone. I’m not alone.
    You never leave me. You never leave me.

    Everything You Do (from “Beautiful People”)

    Everything you do, I want to do it, too.
    Cause doing things with you, it makes me happy.
    Everything you say, I want to say it, too.
    And even when I say it wrong we just start laughing.

    Merciful Father, I’m learning to trust you love me the way that I am.
    The simple desire to help you means more to you than whether I really can.

    I Will Wait (from “Faith”)

    There’s a wall that stands in front of me,
    That I know I just can’t climb.
    But like an eagle you will carry me.
    It’s just a matter of time.

    I will wait for you, Jesus.
    You’re the sun in my horizon.
    I will wait for you, Jesus.
    I can see you now arising.

    No Sacrifice (from “Faith”)

    To you I give my life.
    Not just the parts I want to.
    To you I sacrifice,
    These dreams that I hold on to.

    Your thoughts are higher than mine.
    Your words are deeper than mine.
    Your love is stronger than mine.
    This is no sacrifice: Here’s my life.

]]> http://www.rueplumet.com/2008/06/29/jason-upton/feed/ CoppermineSC 0.4.6 Released http://www.rueplumet.com/2008/06/22/copperminesc046/ http://www.rueplumet.com/2008/06/22/copperminesc046/#comments Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:12:40 +0000 Brad http://www.rueplumet.com/?p=665 I’ve just released CoppermineSC version 0.4.6! You can download the new version or visit my CoppermineSC page for complete details about the plugin. You can also view a sample of what CoppermineSC can do. Feel free to post comments and feature requests to this entry.

This version of CoppermineSC should work with Wordpress 2.5.1 and Coppermine 1.4.18, which are the latest versions of WordPress and Coppermine as of the time of this release.

New Features in Version 0.4.6:

This release contains no new functionality. It only fixes a compatibility problem with WordPress 2.5 and newer. If you run into a problem with this release I will work with you to resolve it as my time permits.

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]]> http://www.rueplumet.com/2008/06/01/delicious-133/feed/ Dan Tyminski Band http://www.rueplumet.com/2008/05/08/dan-tyminski-band/ http://www.rueplumet.com/2008/05/08/dan-tyminski-band/#comments Fri, 09 May 2008 01:54:43 +0000 Brad http://www.rueplumet.com/?p=662 Quite a few months ago (I’m behind on my blog posting) Joy and I saw the Dan Tyminski Band here in town. Dan Tyminski is best known to most people as the singing voice of George Clooney in the movie “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”, where he sings “Man of Constant Sorrow”. He’s also been a member of Union Station with Alison Krauss for many years.

We had front row tickets in the very center, and it was amazing to watch such talented musicians from so close. They played a lot of songs off their forthcoming album (which should be released in June), as well as many of the songs from Dan’s previous solo album, “Carry Me Across the Mountain”. Near the end of the concert they finally played “Think About You Every Day”, which is my very favorite song from Carry Me, and it was terrific, especially since I was beginning to think they weren’t going to play it. It was a great concert and I really enjoyed it (and Joy was very kind to humor me since bluegrass is not her favorite style of music).

]]> http://www.rueplumet.com/2008/05/08/dan-tyminski-band/feed/ Half A Million?!? http://www.rueplumet.com/2008/05/07/half-a-million/ http://www.rueplumet.com/2008/05/07/half-a-million/#comments Thu, 08 May 2008 01:29:49 +0000 Brad http://www.rueplumet.com/?p=659 You know what’s crazy? I’ve now had over half a million spam comments left on my blog. Kind of insane, if you ask me.

]]> http://www.rueplumet.com/2008/05/07/half-a-million/feed/ Mass Attack http://www.rueplumet.com/2008/05/03/mass-attack/ http://www.rueplumet.com/2008/05/03/mass-attack/#comments Sun, 04 May 2008 00:20:59 +0000 Brad http://www.rueplumet.com/?p=631 One of the blogs I read posts a “Timewaster of the Day” flash game almost every day. Most of them don’t seem very interesting, but occasionally they post about one that seems like it would be kind of fun. Recently they posted about a game called “Mass Attack” and I just had to try it out.

You try to balance weights on a scale (I know, it sounds fun, doesn’t it?) and the closer you get to balancing, the better your score. The game starts with weights on one side and you have to add weights to the other side to try to make the scale balance. You make a weight by holding down your mouse button and the weight grows larger until you let go of the button. Playing the game is really simple once you’ve done the first level or two, but getting the correct balance gets pretty tricky in the later levels. On the day I played it, I made the hall of fame with the 30th best score for that day.

Mass Attack

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