Scott Yang's Playground

Internet Explorer carved up by zero-day hole. No one clicking on any link today on his/her Internet Exploder. Posted this on FireFox 0.8…

Two days after previous announcement on Airport Express, Apple has finally announced an upgrade to the long overdue G5 PowerMac. This time, there are three models to choose and the top of the range sports a whooping 2.5Ghz G5. The “World’s Fastest Personal Computer” has just gone faster. At the same time, it might also [...]

Via Matt’s Aside, Bill Zeller has produced a static files generation plugin for WordPress! It is a great news for me, who has got WordPress running with 3 content filter plugins on this wimpy 400Mhz web server. An index page with 15 blog entries would take 1.5 seconds to manufacture, and my yearly archive pages [...]

David Andersson argued against Bert Bos’ claim that Javascript is the worst invention. I agree with the argument, as someone used Javascript everyday at work, I see it is something we have today that can transform a website into a web application.

Big thanks to invitation from Thomas, that I have finally got myself a Gmail account! I just had a brief look of it, and the interface seems to be pretty light-weight and slick, using quite a bit of XMLHttpRequest in Javascript to make it more ‘application’-like. I guess it probably also means that I would [...]

Sydney Morning Herald now requires registration to read some articles, ala New York Times’ style. Dodgy. It is just their way to collect customer data for marketing purpose.

New Apple gadget! Apple has announced its Airport Express, a portable wireless 802-11g base station with integrated printer sharing (via a USB port) and audio streaming from iTunes (via a 1/8″ audio jack). All at the size of a Powerbook/iBook power brick! This kind of device would be very useful for a house that desires [...]

Beat this Google – 2Gb of free inbox without googlebot crawling through your emails! 10,000 sign-ups per month, but you don’t need to be an active blogger to test this out :)

Since Flow got purchased by iiNet, Optus has taken up the responsibility of an Australian mirror of Sourceforge. I need to download stuff from SF everyday, and it is definitely a warm welcome.

Doug Ross prefers handling error code on the spot than catching the exception. I have written database engine and client drivers, but I still love semantic of exceptions more. But yoiu will find there are equal amount of bad coders out there who ignore the return code and who have catch-all everywhere.

Peter Garrett might be asked to be an MP standing for Kingsford-Smith. A secret weapon of ALP? I’m not that keen, but at least I would like to see D. Sullivan getting back his Randwick mayor. Currently listening: Midnight Oil: Cemetry in My Mind.

Bloggers from Sun Microsystem. Maybe we will hear more about technologies like Java, Solaris, UltraSparc and StarOffice.

miniBB and PunBB are the two light weight open source PHP forum software that I am investigating to power possible the next generation of FOCUS forum.

昨晚有二十幾個團契的人湧進我家出火鍋，大家狼吞虎嚥了一班後竟還剩下了一堆沒吃完（向剛來國語查經團契而對昨日大家爭食的情況而受驚嚇的，在此向你們致由衷的道歉）。不過昨晚真的是吃到撐都撐不下的那種感覺﹣今早竟是肚子漲地睡不著而爬起床。洗澡前去秤了一秤，體重竟超過了我不想也無法面對的範圍！肥啦！

Vivian 不知吃錯了什麼，突發奇想，說要揮別我們還沒有小孩牽掛的生活，昨天禮拜六就找了一些 MBF 的人去唱 K，包括我六個下午就在 Pitt Street 上的 Greenbox 唱了兩個小時。