Scott Yang's Playground

Firefox 1.0 is just around the corner, and the Spread Firefox team is trying to get a full page ad on The New York Times. This site is also highly optimised for Firefox – you probably won’t see the rounded border if you don’t use the “right” browser. What?! Still use Microsoft Internet Exploder? With [...]

New iBook and budget PowerMac has been released by Apple today as expected. Nothing really exciting – CPU speed bumps mainly for iBooks to 1.2Ghz on the 12″, and price stayed the same. While the budget PowerMac consists of 1.8Ghz G5 processor, its FSB is only at 1/3 of the CPU speed thus no match [...]

Should the Australian government sell all its 51.05 percent of Telstra? One “promise” by the coalition party is the privatisation Telstra, Australia’s largest telecommunication company that is currently having a monopoly on the copper network infrastructure. Yesterday, Tim Costello of Liberal said that it would be delayed until at least 2006, and today John Anderson [...]

I wish I can say that to you, but this two words phrase has been registered as trademarks by a Chinese company, even the song that we sing on the birthday is copyrighted until 2030 and royalty is required if being performed publicly!

Slashdot reports Gmail has started adding DomainKey signature into out-going emails, even before Yahoo! I quickly wrote myself an email and verify that it is indeed the case. I wrote about DomainKeys 5 months ago, and I still doubt how successful it would be.

A typical Sunday morning service. After a song or two, the pastor started to explain God’s word from the Bible enthusiastically. Most pew warmers are enjoying the talks, but a few might find the resonance of the preacher’s voice in their head emitting some sort of hypnotic substance… Then suddenly, the rhythm of “Amazing Grace” [...]

While I do not agree that changing the domain name would eliminate irresponsible blogging issue (more to that later), earlier this morning I still managed to acquired a new .net domain from GoDaddy for 2 years at USD$8.95 per year. I’m pretty happy about this purchase. Hopefully I would not catch the credit card swiping [...]

BBC reports Chinese Satellite smashes into a villager’s house. More details here. Funny thing is the response from the tenant of the smashed appartment – “The satellite landed in our home. Maybe this means we’ll have good luck this year…” So “Chinese”!!

I wrote a long email last week trying to explain certain matters, and later on showed Vivian what I have written. She complemented me saying that I have ability to explain things well in writings, but then commented that it would be good if I would be able to do the same with my verbal [...]

今早與 A1, A2 & J 去打籃球，打到一半腳跟突然感到與地板有種奇妙的親近關係。提起球鞋一看，原來跟了我快九年的鞋底裂開了… 這雙鞋記得是 ’95 年底暑假在台灣買的。當時在 Seattle Supersonic 的 Shawn Kemp 還叱吒 NBA，Reebok 的鞋又比 Nike 的便宜許多，所以我和我弟就各買了一雙。他的是 Supersonic 的綠色，而我的則是同款的黑色。他的那一雙在買之後一年就穿壞了（我弟對球鞋的破壞力超強），而我，回到大學沒什麼球可以打的生活，之後畢業，工作，結婚－一雙籃球鞋竟穿了快九年！ 不過 Shawn Kemp 的這套鞋真的滿多人有的－Gary 有一雙，Leo 也有一雙。只有我這雙是穿到今天才壞。說到這差點要自己佩服自己了。哈！

Based on Johnson’s story on on-line DVD rental, I have decided to give it a try as an alternative to visiting the video shops. I picked Quickflix from half a dozen other fast growing on-line DVD rental stores because of their decent website and user-friendly interface, and test-drove their one month free-trial offer. Now, a [...]

SMH reports the division between Anglican after PDJ’s remark at UK. I wonder how should we respond to it. Difficult to judge I’ll say, without being there listening to Phillip’s talks. I’ll refrain myself from commenting on it, except (1) media is not always right (2) Bible is always right and authoritative (3) Sydney-sider is [...]

Another birthday girl today, and this time it is 10th anniversary of first Netscape beta. It has come a long way, hasn’t it? I still remember in my first year uni, all the 1337 people used Netscape with its JPEG support, as the rest used Mosaic.

For the last 3 to 4 weeks, Mandarin Bible Fellowship worked through 1 Corinthians 8-10 in our Sunday Bible studies. The main theme is pretty obvious. Gospel is Paul’s agenda as he has been appointed as the Apostle to the Gentiles (1 Corinthians 9:17 “… entrusted with a stewardship”). His will is to save some [...]

AppleInsider reports the rumour of up-coming upgrade of Apple’s 17″ CRT eMac to use PPC G5 processors. If the price can be kept at AUD$1,299 for a 1.8Ghz eMac, I am sold.