Scott Yang's Playground

I wondered why I have not picked it up previously, but apparently Blogger, one of the frontier for personal blog sites, have provided Atom feed for all the blog sites. I found that out today by looking at the raw HTML of one blogger site, and spotted the <link type=”application/rss+xml” /> tag in the header. [...]

Vivian invited a few girls from Mandarin Bible fellowship over to make wanton for dinner tonight, and most of them are around 6 years junior than us. However I found the differences is more like 26 years – there is almost a generation gap. Can’t get used to Jay or Faye, or whatever they are [...]

Such a shame to take Scooter out for walk. Yesterday Vivian and I took him out for walk after work, and we took a lap around the sub-urban area of Daceyville. Every 10 metres he would decide to stop to wee or poo, and had left trace everywhere along the walking track. He would run [...]

This morning I got an email from a client complaining that the XML-RPC interface we provided in our system is not working for him, as he is trying to write a Java client for it. I briefly looked at the exception dump, and very obviously someone tries to cast an object to something that it [...]

It must be weird to have your former high school chaplain complimenting on your Christian testimony, especially when you used to think that religion study was one of the most boring subject in school, and tried to make up excuses for not turning up to chapel. I wasn’t sure how Mr. Stonier found out this [...]

I am taking the quiz which everyone else seems to be taking. Which book of the Bible are you? You are Revelation. How it works out the result still puzzles me.

Bits and pieces from last weekend. Still feeling tired…

Things we bought yesterday: 10 m2 of plain white wall tiles. 40 kg of tile adhesive & 2 boxes of grout. A bag of tile spacer. Adhesive spreader, tile cutter and the tool that is used to apply the grout (whatever it is called). 2 raw-pine file cabinets. Tiles + adhesive together would probably be [...]

Getting something for free? No way. From Microsoft! Get real! Well. Apparently it is real. Thanks for an email received via Catalyst, I was informed that Microsoft is actually offering security updates for most of its Windows operating system product on CD for free delivered to your door. It is perfect for those who are [...]

Google and Yahoo has been bringing lots of visitors to this site, but sometimes I wish they don’t land on this site from these query. What troubles me is search engine spiders indexing my everyday life – something that probably won’t edify anyone but my own ego. I don’t want you to go and search [...]

Moved into the new place for 2 weeks now but we have not yet had a working laundry, as the laundry tub is not yet connected to the sewage system. We got a plumber to have a look, and also booked him to install a vanity in the toilet at the back plus a bigger [...]

I have been connected to the net using Swiftel’s ADSL service for nearly two weeks now, and while the speed has been excellent (note that I am not a big leecher downloader), comparing with the BADSL service I got from Internode, the stability has been less than impressive. The first few days have been a [...]

Many people have multiple blogs as they blog about different matters. There is diversity in one’s life, and some bloggers also chose to express this diversity in different areas of their blogs. I also blog about different areas of my life. Usually these areas of my life don’t correlate, but sometimes they do intersect. At [...]