Scott Yang's Playground

It builds, and builds, and builds….

As of this morning, the dual celeron server box that connects my apartment to the Internet (as well as serving this very page) has an uptime of 372 days! It has been the longest uptime I’ve achieved for the 6 years I’ve been running dedicated Linux server box at home. I was quite impressed (and [...]

2 days after the boxing day and I still have no idea why there was a public holiday. Well, I am not complaining (who would complain for having an extra day off from work?), but just curious to find out. According to WikiPedia, it is a holiday for UK and much of the Commonwealth countries [...]

It is about that disturbance. I need to get over it! Seriously, why am I here? I am hoping that by writing it down can somehow bring in some calming effect. I hope. And no. I am not writing about you.

for tying the knot on the 27th of December 2003. That was a great wedding today.

Ross Gittins is one of my favourite columnists writing for the Sydney Morning Herald, and I personally find one of his latest article, “So, Scrooge was right after all“, very interesting. In the article, he pointed out that the economists could not understand why people give gifts on Christmas, because it is not economical at [...]

Aargh. It is that end of the year reflection time again, and even the last Friday Five of 2003 involves much thinking and reviewing. It is Friday night on the Boxing Day – just let me give it a try. What was your biggest accomplishment this year? Maybe purchase a house? House shopping was not on my [...]

Merry Christmas to all! For to us a child is born,   to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder,   and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,   Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6 Work finished early today. By 2:30 pm in everyone was basically out of the office. I had an afternoon nap before [...]

This is the command I ran: $ python -c 'import time; print time.ctime(2**30)' Sun Jan 11 00:37:04 2004 That makes it 19 days to go before there are 2^30 (a bit more than 1 billion) seconds since the un*x epoch, which is Jan 1 1970. There was a story running on CNET, which is [...]

I think Scooter must be hungry. We fed him a bit of chum today, but he did not seem to have enough (Scooter is quite a skinny dog). We tried to teach him to do some tricks. I threw a tennis ball and expected him to bring it back. Indeed he brought the dog back, [...]