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 [...]

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. [...]

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!

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Another week. It was a busy week – I have been coming home at 12:30-1:00am for the last few days doing the house renovation stuff. Work has been busy as well, especially trying to keep a big client and their security consultants happy. Tomorrow (or today, as it appears to be 1am already) we will [...]

The story continues from my previous post… There is a Chinese proverb saying “一分錢一分貨”, which just means you get what you paid for. There are lots of exceptions on this, for example the Open Source Software and God’s gracious salvation plan for you, but it still generally holds true in today’s consumer market. On Wednesday [...]

Woke up at 5am this morning working on scraping wall paint in my new place. Came back at 7:45am to take shower to get ready for work, feeling dizzy and tired. I was equipped with a heat gun, a scrapper and a P2 respirator, and worked at snail speed. 2 days of 2-3 hours session [...]

I am a bit slow on taking up this technology, but I’ve done it anyway. Here is my Friend of a Friend file, just in case that you want to include me into your community. Download Scott’s foaf.rdf FoaF provides an open standard mechanism to build social networks in the same fashion as Friendster. In [...]