Scott Yang's Playground

Quite Saturday morning, I saw this story on one of my favourite geek news source: fvwm Turns Ten Which then link to fvwm’s birthday page: FVWM Brithday Celebration Before you turn to say what the f* is fvwm, I have got no conclusive explanation on what the f stands for in fvwm either. However, it [...]

I am hoping to start a new feature on the my blog site – the Friday Random Quickies. During the week I usually discovered quite a few interesting sites in a random fashion (during the boring hours of the day, of course), however I am not sure whether I want to write a whole blog [...]

Finder in Mac OS X is probably one of the most discussed application in Mac. It is an app that people love and hate. While it is years ahead of Finder in Mac OS 9, packed with lots of features, and is beautiful to look at, it does not really take the full advantage of [...]

Currently Listening: Tender Surrender from Steve Vai‘s Alien Love Secrets album, 1995. Clock is ticking pass 7 and it is in complete darkness outside, but I am still stuck at work here, waiting for V to pick me up to go home. It is pretty much the end of today for me, and I don’t [...]

Okay. This is a rant. Why emails sent in the FOCUS mailing lists have to be colourful lately? Things with big fonts, lots of sometimes-quite-disoriented colours, half-baked sentences aligned left, right and centre across the page, and words that resembles advertisement – these are sent to the FOCUS mailing lists with around 200 to 300 [...]

I have to reinstall Fink again today because somehow I mis-upgraded certain files. Now whenever I need to install some package, it will stall after the file has been fetched by curl – it will just show that 100% has been downloaded, but curl never quits. Weird. A quick search on the mailing list does [...]

Last year I taught the 2 Ways to Live course in FOCUS Team – one session in English and one session in Mandarin. I like 2 ways to live. I think it must be some personality thing. I find practising 2 ways to live quite an intellectual challenge, and it helps you to think critically [...]

I have decided to add a new section on the index page of this blog site, dedicated to my list of reciprocal links. Do you want to be linked by “Scott Yang’s Playground”? It is currently a PR5 website according to the mighty Google Toolbar, and hopefully a reciprocal links can help boosting both your [...]

I have found a useful Mac-related site today through MacSlash – Useful Mac Basically it lists out all the useful applications in different categories, with a little icon and a small paragraph on each app, and a forum for people to discuss. It does not provide reviews, nor downloads – just lists of useful apps! [...]

At the International Unichurch last Sunday, Joshua gave a sermon on Matthew 22, on how the Pharisees and Sadducees attacked Jesus with challenging questions. I think Josh probably has just seen the movie Matrix Reloaded, and cannot get all the actions and the philosophical talks out of his head, so the whole sermon basically spoils [...]

One of the first thing I have installed on my Mac is Fink – a project that aimed to bring the Open Source software from the Un*x/Linux land to Mac OX X and Darwin. I have installed the latest version (0.5.2 at the point of writing), and basically it gives you the Debian-like package management [...]

Well. I am taking my time exploring that iBook I’ve received just short of 3 weeks ago, and I am also taking my time updating this journal. For the last week, I spent more and more time on my Mac, and for some nights I didn’t even bother to power on my Dell Inspiron 8000, [...]

Where did big computer software/hardware websites get their names in the first place? It happens that they don’t usually just pick a random word out from the dictionary, but many of them actually had a origin (even though many have been forgotten). I got this list of “how they got their names” from this website, [...]

According to Jarno Virtanen of Python owns us, the secret of the popularity of weblogs has finally been revealed. The reason that you are reading this blog is… You procrastinate. According to Jarno, “weblogs are an optimal format for distraction and procrastination” because both reading and writing weblogs are easy tasks for average human. A [...]

Reviews on Matrix Reloaded has been populating the net over the last couple of days, and there are large number of debates discussions in the movie-related news groups and forums on the mysteries of Matrix. After watching it yesterday I was also very much puzzled – definitely not helpful as my brain really needs some [...]