Scott Yang's Playground

4 simple choices, clicking on the “Submit”, and here comes my result: My Bloginality is ISTP!!! Quote from that page which (supposedly) describes my personality: “Because of your desire for action and Independence, you will change the format of blogging or design frequently to keep it interesting and different. Your loyalty may have you reading [...]

I first saw it on Glenn Slaven‘s blogsite, that the publisher of the English Standard Version Bible, Good News Publisher, is now providing RSS feed for ESV. It provides two kinds of feed – verse of the day as well as querying, and RSS 2 result is returned. Congratulation goes to GNP for adding more [...]

I saw this from Felix’s blog entry. Here’s the quote: Basically this organisation (Business Software Association of Australia) is set to combat software piracy in Australia, in its website you can report people/companies that are using pirated software and you can get paid up to $5000 for the information. I went and dig up the [...]

GG started a thread on the MBF forum to encourage people to talk about MYC after thoughts. Homer and SQ started talking about this SEF game we were playing. Mashi jumped in and yelled “For God’s sake, what the f*** is SEF?” CT and LS from Pelita responded Mashi’s post harshly, and LS mentioned it [...]

Well. I am not revealling my private keys so that you can read my previous post. However, somehow I felt that I might need to put my public PGP keys somewhere on this blogsite, so that in case you need to send me encrypted emails or verify my signatures, you would be able to do [...]

Sometimes I want to write something and put it on my blog/journal, but I am afraid that the content might offend someone. Sometimes it involves with privacy – either mine, Vivian’s or someone else’s that we know. Sometimes it is just something out of blue but I rather don’t want anyone else to know. I [...]

Waking up on Monday has never been so awkward, especially the Monday after the Mid Year Conference. Stepping into the office this morning, starting up the computer, and trying to synchronised my set of CVS tree to see what kind of hacks my colleagues have put in during the week. Yuk. What’s that new function [...]

Waking up this morning still feeling tired. I am recovering from the Mid Year Conference 2003. I am fully exhausted after last night’s recap session – both physically and mentally. I was trying to recover some sleep, but woke up this morning catching a strange feel of emptiness. I am actually recovering from the life [...]

Well. We are actually heading down to the pre-MYC later today, right after the Bible study with MBF. We will get there hopefully before afternoon tea time, and some of us will start preparing the “official welcoming start” of MYC 2003. The weekend has been kind of busy. Well, it is about the Saturday as [...]

Here is this week’s Friday Random Quickies, Scott’s junkyard weblog. First of all, I have to announce that there won’t be a Friday Random Quickies next week. For the most of next week I will be away in MYC, i.e. there won’t be any web surfing for me, therefore there won’t be a weblog. Christianity [...]

Life has been hectic recently. Because 2 of the developers will take leave to go to the Mid Year Conference next week, work has been busy. Very busy. I guess it is not really because of people taking “holidays”, but we have been getting busier and busier since the beginning of the year, after the [...]

I was reading an interesting article on Artima, written by Matt Bauer, titled “Buy your own tools“. Matt argued that we should not enforce developers to use certain tools, as the end product largely depends on the code that comprises it, instead of the tool that constructs it. As Pope should not tell Michangelo which [...]

It seems that Yahoo! does not just go shopping during Christmas. This time, Yahoo! is planning to buy Overture for 1.63 billion dollars. Overture is one of the leading PPC (Pay Per Click) search engine that provide services to other search engines, and it seems Yahoo! is really working out a solution to combat its [...]

I have been writing quite “diversely” in this journal recently. Well, being diverse is actually not the correct description for my kind of writing style. Instead, this journal has been “theme-less”, as I basically combined all my writings into one single pipe of output. I guess my description of this blog summaries it well. “Faith, [...]

Vivian and I just came back from the Ritz, after watching the movie Bruce Almighty by Jim Carrey and Morgan Freeman. We have indeed enjoyed the movie very much. Some people from church has talked about how God has been offensively mis-presented in the film, and that it is not suitable for Christians to go [...]