Scott Yang's Playground

Getting out of the office in 20 minutes. This weekend is a bit un-organised, but at least there won’t be any house hunting activity. Hopefully I will have chance to read books and watch a movie. Revelation 22 and 1 Timothy 2 for this Sunday, and I can’t remember what will be the passage for [...]

Last night after work, Vivian and I, with Shan-Shan from MBF and her Med friends Nancy and Benjamin, went to Koorong at West Ryde for the Thursday late night shopping. Ben somehow got this 30% once-off discount card, and he was shopping like mad last night. As I was only informed the night before about [...]

I found the new Terminal.app in Panther is now much better – to a point that I decided to drop iTerm and use the bundled Terminal instead. It is now much faster in scrolling, has to this “Connect to Server” feature that allows you to customise the application to be executed upon creating a new [...]

Life is full of decisions, isn’t it? Yesterday, Tim sent in two emails about two conflicting events for the Saturday, 8th of November. First of all, Evangelical Formosan Church (EFC) has organised an evangelistic meeting at Westley Mission, with a music group all the way from Taiwan, called Heaventunes. On the other hand, SaltLight, a [...]

Went to 3 extremely boring auction in Coogee last night. Came out much much poorer. Just bought a semi-detached shelter, built on a sandy piece of land in Kingsford, right next to the busy Gardeners Road. The bus stop outside the door is not part of the deal. The property is surprisingly under our budget, [...]

It is just going to be another entry on my home hunting thoughts. Recently I have been quite troubled with the whole saga – choosing the right home to buy is certainly not easy. There are just too many factors in it. House or unit or town house? Free standing or semi-detached? 2 or 3 [...]

The first project after coming home last night is to install the new Mac OS X “Panther” onto my 12″ iBook. The box came with some installation instructions, license agreements, and 4 CDs. 3 of them are Panther and its applications, and there is an extra disc for Xcode. AUD$199 for a full product is [...]

Monday has just started. Our new account manager, who started today, walked into the “developers’ chamber” trying to introduce him to myself. 9:00am in the morning I was the only developer there. Then he handed me this small box saying that it’s delivered to me… Mac OS X 10.3 Panther! I’ve ordered it last week [...]

Here’s my Saturday. 07:00 Woke up for my regular “breakfast”, i.e. email, slashdot, and SMH. 08:00 First attempt to get Vivian off the bed. Tough luck. Go back to have shower and read more posts on the up-coming Panther. 08:30 Vivian “seems” to be up. We realised that there are a lot of properties that [...]

Apple has just upgraded their line of iBooks to G4 processors. Latest iBook has: CPU: G4 @ 800Mhz (12″) 933/1000Mhz (14″)with 256kb L2 cache 133Mhz system bus Memory: 128Mb DDR on board Optical Drive: Slot loading combo Video: ATI Radeon 9200 with 32Mb DDR USB: 2xUSB 2.0 on board Wiresless: Airport Extreme (802.11g)Internal Bluetooth ready [...]

This entry is inspired by the now-defunct This or That and the constant geek holy wars happening on Slashdot. Here we go… Vi or EmacsDefinitely vi here. I’ve been a user of Vim for nearly 6 years, and I couldn’t be happier. Before that, I’ve used Xemacs for almost a year, but could not stand [...]

Just got the confirmation that the home loan has been approved. Now we just need to find a place that we can afford, and start my new life as a slave to the banks. A few things I still need to learn. Budgeting is one. Is there good tips on auctions? We will probably go [...]

I went to Fjord’s blog site this morning, and experienced the power of Google’s AdSense – how it places context related advertise in a website. At the top of the page, Google placed two ads – Asianwok Chinese noodle – Quon Yick and Marco Polo brands Ingredients for noodle recipes. Chicken Recipe – Shop at [...]

Another busy and tiring weekend. And the fact that I am still car-less makes it even more tired, as we have to travel around with our bus route 11. Friday night some of the Bible study group leaders from MBF joined a ‘Sus’ group for missions in China, at SMBC in Croydon. Paul Douglas from [...]

Here is the list of world’s 200 tallest buildings, and at the point of writing, Sydney has won places at 102 (Chifley Tower), 103 (Citigroup Centre), 156 (MLC Centre) and 160 (Governer Philip Tower). Well. Not very impressive, isn’t it? Especially consider that for the top 10 on the list, 5 of them bear the [...]