Scott Yang's Playground

Via Slashdot, BBC News has an article having a glimpse inside the virtual church, Church of Fools, started by Christian humour website, Ship of Fools. In this 3D environment that simulates a church hall, Sunday worshippers can be connected from everywhere in the world to participate in the service – listening to the sermon, singing [...]

That is a broken tennis ball. Hollow inside. But it seems Scooter has just discovered that. Scooter is my house dog, lives a shallow life as my neighbour has described. If you throw a tennis ball, he would chase it down as fast as he could and bring the ball back. But instead of pass [...]

Yeah! Friday. I am going home in a minute, and can forget about work for two days. FridayFive for this week is not out yet, so I might as well do the previous week’s one, which is work related. What do you do for a living?Writing software. What do you like most about your job?Non-interactive. [...]

Article on ChristianityToday on the Back to Jerusalem movement amongst the Chinese house churches. House church in China are aiming at sending 100,000 missionaries to its neighbouring countries, and they have taken the great commission seriously. There will be persecutions along the way, but those who have experienced the culture revolution know no fear. The [...]

I know that one can only be thoroughly cleansed by the blood of Jesus, but preference wise I do want to wear clean cloth everyday. Lack of a working laundry has made that task a little more difficult to achieve, so for the past 2 months we have been doing our washing at Judy’s place [...]

Came back from FOCUS church camp 2004 yesterday afternoon, and have to unwillingly face the reality this morning to come back to work. Ready or not, my mind is still unsettled. Here I am, trying to sort out bits and pieces of this year’s church camp. But don’t expect photos in this blog entry, if [...]

Here is a question for my readers, after SixApart announced the up-coming TypeKey service, and has released an extensive FAQ for it, will you enable TypeKey for commenting on your blogsite, once you upgraded to Movable Type 3 later this month? Possible reactions: Bring on the TypeKey, the ultimate solution for blog comment spamming! No [...]

“I think there is a dead rat in our garden….” Vivian, who is staying at home today, just ICQ’ed me at work about her new discovery. “Scooter has been playing with it.” Aarrgghh! That stupid dog of ours. Sounds like I have got one more thing to do before going to the FOCUS Church camp [...]

A while ago I blogged a simple comparison between grace and mercy, from On The Web Blog. I was reading Don Carson’s Sermon on The Mount tonight, and here’s his take on the difference: What is mercy? How does it differ from grace? The two terms are frequently synonymous; but where there is a distinction [...]

Just then I was listening to radio while driving home. If I am the only one on the car, I usually just tuned to Triple M as I normally can only tolerate music with distortion on guitar. But that’s another story. During the commercials, there was an ad telling what people should go clubbing during [...]

SpyMac apparently offers free 1 Gigabyte email service, without an April Fools day press release. I quickly signed it up, and here’s my member benefits: 1 GB e-mail account, 250 MB of space to upload pictures in the Spymac Gallery 100 MB free space on Spymac Hosting with WebDAV access Free iCal Hosting (both public [...]

28. That is 30 less 2. It can also be factorised as 22 x 7. It is 14 less than the answer of everything. In this context it is a quantifier, counting the things that many people would not wish to know. It is Scott today.

Got my “bad mail” statistics page implemented to track down spams and viruses. A Python script is triggered when Clam AV quarantines an incoming virus, or when Spam Assassin detects an incoming spam mail. It inserts information gathered into a local MySQL table, where a web page would then pull the info out using PHP. [...]

Don’t I just have fun analysing logs, where it might be the apache traffic log that I might spy on my readers, or the postfix mail log that I can trace the pattern of spams. Is “curiosity” something bad, i.e. maybe something sinful? Is it a sign of being a control freak, that you would [...]

Sometimes I was wondering, writing or reading a journal/diary based weblog is just like acting or watching a reality show on television. There are always people shamelessly and willingly wanting to share bits and pieces of their lives in public media, and there are always people who are curious about everyone else’s boring lives, in [...]