Scott Yang's Playground

I just came back from Sydney Missionary and Bible College at around 10pm, having attended the first public talk series of KCC Centenary Celebration. The first talk was done by Don Carson, titled “The Great Need of The Times”. We got there at ten pass seven, and thought we were 20 minutes early. However, the [...]

While browsing Daily Python-URL this morning (for work, of course :), I found a thread posted on comp.lang.python titled “You know you’re a Pythonista when…“, which is quite interesting. Having used Python as my main programming language for the past two and half years, I am afraid that I might still fail the test… Anyway, [...]

I have not been blogging on this site for a few days, and honestly I have stopped using my little iBook!! However, it is not because my frustration with it, nor is it because I got tired and sick of the Mac OS X operating system, but everytime I tried to use it, I got [...]

He moved past a much thinner guy in front of him with the ball on his hand. Turn swiftly through the court, and he has already drawn close to the ring. He tried to make a jump shot, but the defendant would not permit by blocking all the airways. But the ball was still released [...]

Just came back from the KCC Centenary event at town hall on Friday night. It was great to hear from Phillip Jensen, Don Carson, Peter Adam and Frank Retief speak all on the same night, plus other little footages from previous years’ Katoomba Youth Convention events. There was one video with John Chapman trying to [...]

Here we go the latest random mumbling from Scott, after a whole week of mindless browsing on the Internet. Not quite, as we only have 4 days of work this week, as we had Queen’s Birthday on Monday. Which queen? Not sure. Probably not Queen Amidala :) It has been a busy week, which means [...]

Well. Another Matrix related blog entry, but I can assure you that there will be more to come. Here’s a personality quiz – what Matrix Persona Are You? And here’s my result: You are Neo, from “The Matrix.” You display a perfect fusion of heroism and compassion. What Matrix Persona Are You?brought to you by [...]

Last night I was trying to write questions for the bible study for the Mandarin Bible Fellowship this coming Sunday. I have been trying to write up this study since last week, but has never got a chance to complete it, because of this common humanistic behaviour, procrastination. But it is not the point. Anyway, [...]

Will I be sued when I typed up that 4 letter word that starts with ‘U’ and ends with ‘X’? Apple used that in their marketing material for Mac OS X, and The Open Group is now suing them for unlicensed usage of the Unix trademark. On Open Group’s website, it claimed that SCO does [...]

On Mac OS X, I have to constantly change between different web browsers for my everyday browsing activities.

After a few hacks last night I have made the stock price available on my Playground blogsite. You will see the box titled “Blogshares” on the right-hand side of the page, below the “Links” box, displaying some stock information that I have retrieved from Blogshares periodically. It is actually not a real time share price [...]

I noticed that OpenOffice.org 1.0.3 for Mac OS X X11 Release Candidate 1 has been released on NeoOffice‘s new bulletin board system – trinity.neooffice.org a few days ago. The X11 installer is a 90Mb download in .tar.gz format, and the one I downloaded does not have a “graphical” installation app. It does not really matter [...]

EveryDNS, the free DNS provider that I have used for two of my domains, was under DDoS attack back in February this year. It took a few days to recover from the downtime, and many people who have hosted their domains on EveryDNS suffer as result. Unfortunately this seems to be happening again. This morning [...]

I have been thinking of creating another new blog for myself, and I am going to call it “Flying in a Blue Dream”. Well, it is not really my Joe Satriani blog, even though it has been my favourite song from him. It is going to be a Chinese blog, i.e. blogging with Chinese characters [...]

I just came back from a long day of activities today. V and I went to the Asian AIM day from 9:30am to around 4pm, and then we waited and had coffee in Burwood for around 2 hours, and then had the stream boat for Arthur‘s birthday. Came back home at around 9:30pm. It has [...]