Scott Yang's Playground

Right after the announcement of GNU/Bash 3′s availablility, I think it is time for me to take a change, leaving the comfy environment that I have got used to over the last 10 years, switching to something all the hard core command line users have been raving about – Zsh.

A nice Gmail hack – create an “Unread” label and Gmail will automatically gather all the unread mails there. Not that I do receive lots of mails in my Gmail account that I have difficulties to sort out the one that I haven’t read. But still a nifty trick.

One problem of writing publicly on a blogsite is that you sometimes get unexpected visitors browsing your site. Those you wondered, “huh? How do they get here?” That’s the shocking feeling I got after I discovered two instances of unexpected guests. One landed on my website (my on-line resume actually) by searching the name of [...]

The same news appears on The age and Sydney Morning Herald, saying studies on statistics shows that the societies that believe in the existence of Hell are usually richer and have better economics, because “A belief in hell tends to mean less corruption and less corruption tends to mean a higher per capita income“. So, [...]

Listening to Shebang on Triple M on the way driving back from work, the hosts requested listeners to call in to tell them stories about homosexual behaviour of their pets, so that they can prove that gay is actually not against the nature… Well. I am not sure how evolution thinking, survival-of-the-fittest believing Darwinists of [...]

Google wrote a blog entry explaining the error message you got when you perform a search, and solutions to get rid of it. Interestingly that it reaons wht it blocks IP addresses of some media outlets — because they were infected by MyDoom virus — instead of being infected by big-mouth journalists.

Apparently there will be a show on sex from Christian perspective, “Good Sex” on Ten Network every Thursday morning at 12:15am. Maybe some of you would wake up early (or sleep late) in the morning to do a review on that show, and report it back to me since I still don’t have a TV…

Google wrote a blog entry explaining the error message you got when you perform a search, and solutions to get rid of it. Interestingly that it reasons why it blocks IP addresses of some media outlets — because they were infected by MyDoom virus, not because they were infected by big-mouth journalists.

Spence detailed his discovery of potential XSS attacks with WordPress and TextPattern, contacted Matt and Dean, and how the developers have responded. Defending against XSS is such a pain in the @#$% for all web application developers, and it is important to respond all the security related feedbacks to provide assurance to your users.

Jeremy Zawodny posted this funny real life story involving two Jews and a drug dealer.

Since the announcement of Gentoo for Mac Os X, I have been eagerly wanting to give it a try. Portage is such a great package management system that it allows you to customise the features at compilation time using the USE variable. I am using it for my own Linux server and all our development [...]

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A list of sites with PageRank 10. It used to be the holy grail for the web developers and search engine optimisers, but these days there is just much muc more than PageRank.

According to this breaking news on Anglican Media Sydney, 15 churches in Australia have been united (claiming the world first) under the banner of National Council of Churches in Australia (NCAA), making a Covenant to reaffirm their commitment to one another as partners on the ecumenical journey, join prayer with each other and care for [...]

SixApart announced the features in Movable Type 3.1 at BlogOn conference. Things like scheduled posts, subcategories and dynamic pages implemented in PHP.