Monday, 5 July 2010
- Hacker News Poll — what is your religion? I actually found the religion-related threads on HN usually quite good comparing to sites like Whirlpool, where people would ridicule first before any discussion. Still, atheism/agnosticism are still the majority in the tech world/startup scene.
- Python 2.7 has just been released, on Anna’s birthday :) it’s going to be the last 2.x release. Time to start picking on 3.x?
Friday, 2 July 2010
Frozen Yogurt
This blog is brought to you by WordPress App running on my Nexus one just updated to Android 2.2 “FroYo” FRF91. Everything runs great so far, except Swype needs to be reinstalled.
Monday, 28 June 2010
Cha Cha, Finally
Last night Vivian and I managed to dine at Cha Cha Japanese Restaurant near Oasis on the Gold Coast high way.
Food: Teppanyaki chicken + rice ($12.80), Tempura udon ($11.80), fried tofu ($6.80), Japanese green tea ($2.70).
We actually meant to go to Cha Cha last time when we were on the Gold Coast (late Jan), but the place was packed back then. There were surprisingly empty tables on Monday so we took the chance. Food was good. Portion-wise not as much as I have hoped :) Will I come back? Only if not crowded.
Saturday, 26 June 2010
Blog Moved, Again
Over the last week I have moved FOCUSER.net (yes the good ol site that does not seem to be used by anyone any more) and all my personal sites from VPSLink to Jumba‘s Virtuozzo VPS. Because
- It is Australian (servers in Sydney in my case), whereas VPSLink is in US
- Believe it or not, Jumba is actually cheaper ($10/month)
- Most importantly, VPSLink sucks after being acquired by Endurance International, and the server migrated to Boston = even higher latency.
Jumba is not without fault — had a 48 hours down time the other day. None of the sites here are important anyway :)
- Android Australia: Vodafone announces Google Nexus One. It is finally officially coming to Australia via Vodafone and its UK arm. Yes, a few days after I bought mine. Such an awesome phone ONLY IF Froyo is releasing tonight :)
Monday, 21 June 2010
It’s about being present
Via Hacker News. Fred Wilson talked about Being Present, because “you have about ten to twelve years to connect with your kids and then they turn into teenagers…” That’s a message to the hard working entrepreneur-parents out there. In fact working 9-5 can feel missing out, let along getting back home at almost 8pm each day? Time for a change. Seriously.
Upgraded to WordPress 3.0
Just ran this on my various blogs:
$ svn switch http://core.svn.wordpress.org/tags/3.0
And navigate to the Admin pages of the blog. Done — WordPress upgraded to the latest and the greatest within seconds. Would be faster if something like git is used instead of subversion (which I found slower and slower than git or hg), but certainly no complain here.
As of WordPress 3.0 — not much changed on the surface. I am pretty sure Matt and gang have done the heart transplant under the bonnet, but these days I am so out of touch with the latest WordPress development I seriously have no idea what has been changed. It does chew up a bit more memory, which can be a problem if you are running tiny virtual servers.
So far so good.
Thursday, 17 June 2010
- SMH/Drive: East beats West when it comes to road manners and safety. Looks like Asians are more likely to be safe drivers than caucasians. Again, that’s generally speaking base on statistics, and our unbelieves usually come from some special cases :)
Playground is the personal weblog of Scott Yang, a Chinese-Australian Christian who works as a software developer in Sydney Australia.