Scott Yang's Playground

Official title for SW Episode III is out, and it is “Revenge of the Sith”. But what?! We still have to wait until May 2005?!

According to Apple’s iDVD support page… 733MHz G4 or faster required for iDVD I was thinking of getting an external firewire DVD burner for my iBook running 900Mhz G3, but I guess I would not be able to use iDVD with it. And talking about “slowness”. I have been doing quite a bit of video [...]

Not mine, because I didn’t go. But here’s a collection of someone else’s + some comments of mine. It will be a growing list for the next week or two when more MYC reviews are poping up on the net. If you did write something about MYC in your blog, please either leave a comment [...]

Mid Year Conference in July has been an event that Vivian and I would not miss for the last couple of years. It is a 5 days conference at Merroo, surrounded by hundreds of other Christians from UNSW, focus on one topic, and really work hard to study the Bible. It is intense, and sometimes [...]

Many guys and gals at MSDN have their blogs, most of them are development on Windows platform centred. Interestingly that Internet Explorer Team has their own team blog, praising how good IE (at least the one in XP SP2) is.

“Earn $250 for each person you forward this email to!” When this appears in your INBOX, usually you will hit Delete straight away, if it has not yet been trashed by the spam filters. However, someone actually went all the way to track down the creator of this email hoax. Unbelievable (seriously).

Apple has put out its own web page on how to get the most juice from its batteries, applicable to PowerBook, iBook and iPod.

Having been away from church for 2 weeks, Vivian and I have finally made our way back last Sunday, and Anna has attended her very first International Unichurch service. It is weird not going to church on Sunday mornings, and it feels great to be back, listening to Bible preached, singing songs, catching up with [...]

Dave Kuhlman wrote a how to document on using form2, PTL and other alternatives. Quixote is one of my favourite Python web application library, and I might one day come back to it.

Forget about getting QuickTime Pro, iDVD and Toast. Forget about building, porting or emerging mjpegtool and vcdimager on Mac OS X. Someone has already done it all and wrote a nice wrapper for it. Very very nice indeed – exactly what I need at the moment.

A trick to start courier-imap using xinetd, which is worth trying if you have the same frustration as mine wondering why every other daemon process has its own ‘super server’.

Chris documented a neat way to use WP as CMS, by manipulating the variables before “the loop”. Or a dirty way to implement TextPattern‘s section semantics.

I hate it when people deliberately destroy a perfectly good public facility by spray paint all over it. I hate it even more when it happened right in front of my house. This time it is not spray paint, but engravings on the newly moulded concrete footpath.

I saw an advertisement from Domayne on Southern Courier this morning, just before I left home for work. Domayne is an authorised Apple dealer in South Sydney, and it has quite good deals when things are on sale. For example, I picked up a new DECT phone from Doro (830R) with 3 handsets for AUD$199 [...]

Sean Hull wrote an comparison of the new PHP5 verses ASP.Net. It feels just like touching the surface, and did not address many issues, especially when PHP5 is still a glorified template language, whereas ASP.Net includes a whole application server suite.