Scott Yang's Playground

I went to see the Matrix Reloaded yesterday at the Randwick Ritz. The gfx effects were, “Wow”, all the way through out the movie. The conversations between Neo and Oracle, and between Neo and the Architect are also quite deep, and I think I might have to go back to watch it again. But what [...]

I have started a new blog site a few days ago on my experience as a new switcher. I will be moving all my Mac blog over there, and use it as a place to document my own Mac discoveries. A Switcher’s Journal

Over the past few days, I have been running Mac OS X.2.6 on the base 128Mb of RAM that is factory-fitted with iBook. The user interface feels sluggish, and from the noise generated by the hard disk head banging on the platters, you know the operating system is paging hard. At the end I have [...]

The iBook update came on 22nd of April, 2003. I first saw it on the MacSlash site when I woke up in the morning, and I sent down my order to the Apple on-line store before I came back home that night. I have always wanted to get an iBook, and Hajime from church can [...]

I don’t sell things on the web. I don’t run a shop, nor am I owning a business on the net. However I tried the Google AdWords today for the first time, trying to attract people to come to FOCUS. And it is fun to set up. The whole process only took me 5 minutes, [...]

I have been quite busy lately, and I have not had much time to write for this blog. Ever since I received my my wife Vivian’s latest toy, an Apple iBook with a 900Mhz G3, 40Gb hard drive, combo DVD/CDRW drive and Airport card, I have been too busy Thinking Differently. It is a joy [...]

I saw this article/survey on Mac-Central – Survey looks at Bible software for the Mac It starts with… The Christian Macintosh Users Group is conducting a survey asking Mac users to voice their opinions and give their feedback regarding the Bible software programs currently available for their preferred computer platform… I myself have been a [...]

When I woke up this morning, Apple Store’s Order Status still shows that the iBook I ordered 2 weeks ago is still being assembled. I called up Apple later in the morning to ask about the order, and they confirmed that it has indeed arrived to their warehouse, and they are about to ship it. [...]

There is an interesting satirical article on blogs4God.com titled “Microsoft Bids to Acquire Catholic Church“. Basically, it is a news report on how Microsoft is trying to acquire the Roman Catholic Church. This merger between the software giant and Vatican-based religion will grant Pope John Paul II a seat in the combined enterprise’s Religious Software [...]

In the CPA Australia magazine for May 2003, there is a big section on managing the geeks. Geeks are usually powering the whole IT infrastructure of an enterprise, and as a manager it is important to keep them and utilise their abilities to best advantage. The whole article is very interesting, and it invited some [...]

In an article on Slashdot today, it taked about a new Internet Explorer exploit that can crash all current versions with only 1 lines of plain HTML code – no ActiveX, no Javascript, but plain HTML. Crash me, please (Requires Internet Explorer) And here’s the HTML that actually crashes the Internet Explorer <input type> The [...]

My colleague sent me a link on this ZDNet Australia feature story: Banning IM at work It reveals that quite a lot of companies have started banning instant messenger (IM) software at the workplace. Not just the financial and law firms, where leaked information can cause considerable damage, but also firms in all kinds of [...]