Scott Yang's Playground

It has been a while since my last blog entry, as I have been flatted out from hacking making renovation improvements to my new house this week. As of handy man work, I am still qualified as a script kiddie – I need to read lots of manual, apply already-made solution, or simply get someone [...]

First of all, thanks to JZ for inviting to the network, so this morning I have a brief chance to register an account and play around the system a bit. Here’s a list of initial impressions. Apparently it is written in C# and ASP.NET. What?! I thought it is done in the spare time from someone [...]

Happy birthday, Mac! You are 20 years old today, and you should go out to make a thunder. Looking forward to any announcement today from Steve the man.

I first read it on Jeremy Zawodny’s blog, “Watch out Friendster, here comes Google’s Orkut“, that a new service has been set up by Google to compete against ever-so-popular Friendster. From this The Register story, Orkut is set up by a Google employee, with “in affiliation with Google” on every page, even though Google has [...]

I have been having difficulty searching for reference documentations on the Firebird database. As I have mentioned in a previous entry, openly available documentation on Firebird is outrageously lacking, comparing to other open source databases. The only useful reference that I can lay my hands on is the much out-dated Interbase 6 Beta manuals in [...]

According to this faq of a Chinese learning centre: … The truth is, educated people in Mainland China and Taiwanese television or radio broadcasters speak Mandarin with little difference. However, it is true that Taiwanese people in general speak differently from Taiwanese television or radio broadcasters… This is very true.

Happy Chinese New Year! 新年快樂! It is the year of monkey according to the Chinese zodiac of 12-year cycle, i.e. it marks those monkeys amongst us 12, 24, 36 or n*12 years old. I have been receiving various happy new year e-cards last couple of days from overseas, with “monkey theme” all over the place. Bye [...]

W32/Beagle.A, an email virus, has been hitting our email server recenly, from the amount of emails titled “Hi” coming into Postfix. We have emails from a friend in Singapore, but originated from the BigPond network. Emails from Korea and Hong Kong, etc – suddenly all our friends decided to come in and say “Hi” with [...]

I am a Jabber person, and it manages all my IM contacts on different networks on my own Jabber server. On Windows I am using the excellent JAJC that is very stable and feature rich with full unicode support. On Mac OS X it is a different story. The most prominent client application is probably [...]

Leo and his wife Jenny visited the International Unichurch for the second time yesterday, but this time they will here to stay – at least for the next 2 years when Leo will be trained under the Ministry Training Strategy. Woohoo!