Scott Yang's Playground

A buddy sent me this link to a story on Yahoo News: ‘Time-Traveller’ Busted for Insider Trading Basically, this guy has invested $800 initially, and in 2 weeks he has a portfolio of $350 million in stocks. He made a gain on every trade, especially those special unexpected business development (merger, technical break through, etc), [...]

Today some of my old uni course mates sent me one of those chain mails saying the Internet website of Westpac has been replicated. Moreover, it is possible that the replicated site has installed password sniffers to steal on-line banking password from those who visited the fraud site. A replica Westpac site(except it is Westpac-Bank.com [...]

Just some incidents happened to my car yesterday. Yesterday morning, I parked my car, a ’99 Nissan Pulsar, outside our office at 7:15am because I was in hurry to catch a cab to go to the airport to catch the plane to go to Melbourne at 7:45am. But after I landed in Melbourne, I realised [...]

Have you always been wondering the meanings behind the name of the suburb you live in? Huh? Well. Maybe not, but anyway. During my boring hour of the day, I found these webpages with a list of Sydney suburb names, as well as the meaning behind it. homepages.ihug.com.au/~isaacyip/suburbs1.htm For example, these are the meanings of [...]

Yesterday morning I went to the East Gardens, to change my mobile phone provider from the ill-fated Dingo Blue to Vodafone (to those readers from the states, yes, I am talking about the cell phones here). The sales guy in the shop seems to be quite surprised when I walked in asking to subscribe to [...]

There was an article on the Sydney Morning Herald today. The Thief in All of Us In Christian terms, the summary of this article is, everyone is sinful! Given the opportunity, we will find many people will chose to commit sin. Like Al Stewart used to ask – what would you do if you have [...]

I read this on the Anglican Media News today. New Archdeacon appointed for Anglican Church’s South Sydney region – Bishop Robert Forsyth has announced that the Rev Deryck Howell is to be appointed as the new Archdeacon of the South Sydney region in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney. Bishop Forsyth recommended Mr Howell for the [...]

Scott’s recipe of getting a sickie: Work many hours and sleep few. Repeat step 1 for a few weeks. Get wet in the rain. At this stage, you should get sore throat and feel some headache. Dada! You can now claim your sick leave. Tried that yesterday, and it works! But now I am in [...]

It is on the Sydney Morning Herald this morning. No sacred cows in dean’s tirade Anglican Media Sydney has the abridged version of Phillip Jensen’s sermon. Pray that I may declare it fearlessly It is definitely worth a read. The message is indeed strong, as Phillip attacked religious tolerance and liberalism of today. I guess [...]

The University Churches, which is the new umbrella organisation for all the Anglican parish based churches on the UNSW campus, FOCUS included, is having their new website. Well, it is not really something new that replaces the old, but it is their first on-line presence since the new parish started early this year. It is [...]

I’ve finally upgraded myself to MovableType 2.6.3 this morning, and not surprisingly, my command-line MT client script mtsend.py does not work properly anymore. D’oh. It is mainly due to some changes in the XML-RPC API, i.e. boolean is now integer for a particular field, etc. Fixing up is trivial, but at the same time I [...]

Gee. There are a lot of those “thoughts” on FOCUS Team this session. They are actually all about FOCUS Team, like my previous blog entry, which is actually about the personal follow-up course, and some challenge to myself. There are some other issues that goes around my little brain, but I have not yet full-compiled [...]

It is Saturday again, and this morning I am at home trying to prepare the seminar topic for the Friday night MBF next week. I still have not really started because my head is still in pain from last night’s evangelistic meetings. Vivian and I have been struggling to keep the Sabbath for a while. [...]

In the news today on Anglican Media Sydney, Phillip Jensen has officially become the new Anglican Dean of Sydney. He will be preaching on Sundays at the St. Andrew’s Cathedral, yet at the same time oversees the ministry work at UNSW. This is a strategy position, as he have said in last year’s farewell dinner. [...]

For session 1 in 2003, FOCUS will have their FOCUS Team on Wednesday nights (that reminds me of updating the FOCUS team web page). We are starting early this session – right from the first week of the session, comparing to SOCM which starts on the 3rd week. I went there this Wednesday night, and [...]