Scott Yang's Playground

You use email? Then you will be considered old-fashion in South Korea, according to this report from Smart Mobs. Instead, email communication has been replaced with mobile phone and text messages. One advantage that snail mail has over email is that it encourages you to write thoughtfully, and now in the instant message era, your [...]

Religion News Blog reports the cults/sects situation in China, and how Three Grade of Servants and East Lightning compete to lure Christians away from church. Bad. Really really bad. This again presents the same question – shall I go to three-self, or should I go to house churches? You either subject yourself to the government, [...]

For the last week and half, my commute time reading has been Spurgeon A New Biography by Arnold Dallimore. It is, as the title has suggested, a biography of Charles H. Spurgeon, a famous English evangelical baptist minister in the 19th century. Like a biography, it started with Spurgeon’s life from birth, looked at his [...]

Sydney felt like a furnace today. And I have learnt that the weather forecast is not always accurate. “What?!” I hear you say. Here’s the proof. It’s the current weather plus weather forecast for today, 28th of November 2004, and the temperature was taken at 4pm in the afternoon. High was forecasted at 31 degree, [...]

It took them quite a while, but today my iBook is back! Finally. I was at work and the NextByte service guy called my mobile, saying that my iBook is ready to be picked up. It suffered from that dreadful logic board problem which plaqued many G3-based iBooks, and they have to replace its logic [...]

Mark Edgar has written a PuTTY patch for Cygwin terminal. It allows you to use PuTTY’s superior terminal emulation over Windows’ dodgy console, which immediately makes text-mode applications much more useful on Windows. A must for all Cygwin users.

Ever read something that makes you anxious? Finished reading D. Broughton Knox Selected Works Volume II on the bus last week, and indeed that book has provoked much challenges, both theologically and mentally. Something that he wrote about church makes me think hard about my extra-church life.

Your church might be Presbyterian, if… True or not I have no comment on that, but it is just hilarious. Got a few young friends who are Presby, and I can imaging you can come up with a similar joke with the Anglicans. Anyway, my favourite one – “If the pastor refers to the ‘youth [...]

Religion and faith related spam emails are on the rise, and they are exempted from the spam law as they are not commercial, according to ReligiousNewsBlog. I’ve received plenty Nigerian spams that played Christian theme, but so far I have not received one that requested me to repent and be saved. Oh wait! I receive [...]

Some actual questions asked in job interviews with Microsoft. If they are really the case, my chance of working with the empire as a mindless stormtropper seems to be pretty slim, as I can’t answer most of the questions…

Some interesting discussion flown out from last Friday’s Simply Christianity course – when is Jesus, the “Christ”? Did Jesus become the Christ before the creation, when God planned salvation for the elected through the death and resurrection of Jesus (2 Timothy 1:9)? Or, did Jesus become Christ when he was born into the house of [...]

A Beginner’s Guide to Delicious – useful for those who want to start using this social bookmark network. And lots of tips for Firefox users as well, utitlising the latest live bookmark feature. Anyone wants to share their del.icio.us bookmark with me? Mine is here.

Default passwords for various hardware routers, PC BIOS and operating systems. I still remember “gonzo”, “snake” and “satan” when I played with Slackware nearly 10 years ago. Hopefully it would be useful to some of you, one day :)

Pharisees and Sadducees are two groups of “baddies” presented in the New Testament, as two opposing Jewish groups teamed up plotting against Jesus. But are they really villians? Or just like one of us? Pharisees are like today’s Evangelical Preachers. Zealous. Up right. Familiar with God’s law, follow them ernestly to the nth degree, and [...]

10 year old bitten grilled cheese sandwich with “Virgin Mary”‘s face on it is now auctioned at eBay, starting bid at USD$3000. Current bid is now already at USD$18,500. Seller also claimed that it has special blessing that enables him/her to win $70,000 at local casinos. And you thought sight of Mary at Coogee Beach [...]