Scott Yang's Playground

CNN reports Yahoo would provide free users 100Mb mail boxes. While it does not compete against Gmail, it is still a good news to existing Yahoo users.

There are two types of bloggers. One is willing to pay for services and support, and another is willing to tweak and bend for something that is free. However, looking at the blogosphere, you can say that majority of bloggers belong to the second category. There are only few people I know who are willing [...]

Vivian and I went to our second intranatal classes in the evening at Royal Women’s. The course itself spreads over 7 weeks, and we hope that we would know everything about pregnancy, delivery and taking care of the new born baby. Well, we sort of hoped. Last night was about contractions, and discussions on various [...]

I have been listening to Joe Satriani‘s 2004 album “Is There Love in Space?” for the last week at work, and that was, well, quite a satisfying experience. I absolutely enjoyed this album because it has Satch demonstrating his wizardry on the 6-string. There are also Matt Bissonette on bass and Jeff Campitelli on drums [...]

Google has launched its image version of AdSense. I thought there should be no more image banner ads.

Opera 7.50 has been released with slimmer design. I might give that a try for web browser compatibility.

PyOne – writing difficult to read one-liner Python script has been made easy, especially useful for switchers from Perl who still think in unrepentent ways.

An idiot downloaded a MS Office 2004 looks-alike icon from Limewire, and thought it was geniune. He deserved to have his home directory wiped out.

Funny quotes people had on IRC. Did someone mentioned IRC?

Yesterday afternoon when I was driving home from work, on the radio The Scardies was singing and playing “Old McDonalds Had a Farm” in the tune of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit”. From “Hello hello hello how low?” to “Ee i ee i ee i ee i o“. I was rolling on the floor laughing [...]

Someone benchmarked 5 different Linux file systems, and quite obviously concluded that one should choose whatever FS that suites him, except Ex3 which has overall poor performance.

Official Google Blog, set up by Blogger founder Evan Williams, where you can spy everyday business going on in the giant search engine corporation.

My iBook has finished her first orbit around the sun, which starts one year ago on this day. Nothing much has changed. This iBook does most things I asked her to do, but many other things I still prefer doing them on Windows or Linux. Am I a switcher? Not quite. I am typing up [...]

Since I added Bandersnatch to my Jabber server to log all conversations between myself and my correspondants on various IM networks two weeks ago, I also managed to import whole year worth of chat messages in XML format logged by JAJC into my message history database. Analysing the data itself proves to be quite interesting. [...]

A pastor-to-be theological student gave his sorrowful yet hopeful talk, in the funeral of his two new born sons who died before the delivery. Monday morning at St. Barnabas. Chilling cold with drizzling rain. We cried.