Scott Yang's Playground

Well. I know I know. The Friday Random Quickies was missing for a week, but last week I was exhausted. However, I did managed to gather some links, but at the end I posted the wrong file! So anyway, here are some of links I’ve collected through out the week.

I am working on the seminars for the Mid Year Conference this year. Well, this year’s topic is on Guidance, but I have been reading the gospel of John whole night. What has John got to do with the topic of guidance? Hmm. I know some people here who read my blog will also be [...]

I saw this article on Kuro5hin: How did you come up with your user-name My user-name has been “scotty” since the beginning, well, since I have been empowered to create user accounts on the computers I have access to. I always tried to grab the user-name “scotty” whenever I am signing up to a website, [...]

PyBlosxom I have just found a new blog tool called pyblosxom, which is described as “blosxom with a touch of python”. As the description has suggested, it is similar to blosxom in terms of functionality, i.e. putting all your blog entries into plain text files in nested directories, and then the CGI will do all [...]

Tried to start Camino tonight as a site refuses to open with Safari v85. However, my installation of Camino 0.7 somehow refused to start. My knowledge of Mac OS X is so limited and I have no idea when a dialog box poped up saying the application has closed unexpectly. Well, I don’t see any [...]

Well. It is not me who is getting a Nissan X-Trail, but my dad is. I talked to my parents last night and tried to get them to come to Sydney for a weekend. Then my mum mentioned that my dad is replacing his old Honda Accord with a new X-Trail. Mind you that they [...]

Some girls from MBF came tonight to our place, and together with Vivian we discussed what we can do to help and encourage the others in the up coming Mid Year Conference. We wanted a “game” that can be played thoughout the week, and then someone thought of the game of “guarding angel”. Basically, at [...]

This blog entry is the continuation of the previous entry on a seminar Vivian and I did for MBF. This is the last event of our new “MBF on Friday” series of seminars for this session, and at the end of yesterday’s event, we gave out some feedback forms for people to fill out. We [...]

Vivian and I gave a seminar yesterday at MBF on the topic of Godly Conversation. We were a bit late when we got there (well, nearly 30 minutes late) because the printer at home is playing up. Anyway, here is a simple outline on the talk+seminar.

Just went to the Apple Store and saw the pricing for the released-but-not-delivered PowerMac G5. Here is the Australian pricing: 1.6GHz 256Mb 80Gb AUD$3,599 1.8GHz 512Mb 160Gb AUD$4,499 2×2.0GHz 512Mb 160Gb AUD$5,599 Educational prices is a bit cheaper. It is actually “okay” when you calculate the exchange rate + shipping + insurance + GST, but [...]

Half of year 2003 has passed. Actually the very mid-point was sometime yesterday as you divide 365 days by two. Anyway. Time is really going quick, and pretty soon 2004 will be knocking on the door. Ministry has been very busy this year. As the amount of responsibility increases, I hardly get any break. It [...]

HTML rendering and Javascript are sometimes mystery to me, and usually I can only understand how something works by experimenting. The implementation differs quite a bit between MSIE, Mozilla, Netscape 4 and other commonly used browsers as well, and it can be quite frustrating sometimes. And when the outcome of a script differs from its [...]

What a way to start a day! Waking up this morning and greeted with the message that everyone’s favourite web browser, Mozilla, has achieved another milestone. Mozilla 1.4 has been released on the 30th of June, right after Netscape 7.1 has been released. In fact, Netscape 7.1 was based on Mozilla 1.4, plus all the [...]