Scott Yang's Playground

Conversations over dinner time. S: Why so many problems? And it seems to only happen to the girls!V: Probably because they think too much – too much people oriented thinking. When both are presented, people usually favour people-oriented behaviour over task-oriented ones. They are more sensible, more caring, gives better feedback, but sometimes can cause [...]

Zondervan is under attack as it is now cutting cost by printing Bibles in China, where some Christians are still persecuted. I don’t get why Mosher is calling for a boycott of all Chinese goods, as though it would change the human rights condition in China. Nevertheless, (1) Zondervan can still reduce cost by trying [...]

I have been hesitated to blog about my weekend. (1) Can’t really remember what was going on when I woke up on the dreadful Monday (2) Why do you want to know anyway?

Dr. Mark Thompson has written a thought provoking article on Briefing issue 313, titled “Is there any point being evangelical” (page 19-23). The term “evangelicals” has been quite a controversy – what exactly categorises as being evangelical? What doctrine statement? What denomination? Which evangelist? Since the actual boundary is very difficult to define, one danger [...]

Photoshop for Photographers – great little book on using Photoshop to fix up your photos. I don’t know how to use Photoshop (I am a Gimp user), nor am I a photographer – but I wish I can master both.

Via del.icio.us/popular. “Mac OS X Power Tools” contains a list of useful applications for Mac OS X to get power users started. Too bad that I need to wait for my iBook getting fixed to try out some.

Man. I love Dilbert, a carton about an engineer and his conflicts at work. However, I saw something interesting today. Maybe Scott Adams was trying to tell us about the Total Depravity of mankind. We thought we have free will, but in fact we are all enslaved by our own sinful desire. We cannot do [...]

Looks like I am also a victim of the iBook G3 logic board problem. Tuesday night. Surf the web with my iBook + Airport, and before I headed to bed, I closed the lid to put it to sleep as well. Wednesday morning, woke up, opened the lid to wake my iBook up as well. [...]

Via /. Gmail has started rolling out POP3 access to selected users, and you would be able to check your Gmail account using Outlook, Mozilla or Mutt. This is cool, but I wonder whether it collides with Google and Gmail’s business model, which depends on displaying contextual ads next to your mails. Anyone from FOCUS [...]

Cocoal.icio.us – A Cocoa del.icio.us Client for Mac OS X. Freeware, and it adds Mac OS X beauty into managing del.icio.us bookmarks.

As everyone should have known, Firefox 1.0 has just been released. You can get CPU optimised Windows build here, which adds support for MMX/SSE instructions. It does feel a bit faster, at least psychologically. The new Firefox start page is now also Google – any conspiracy here? Let the browser war begins!

From 12 Nov 2004 onwards, domain transfer does not require explicit confirmation from the registrar. Unless your domain is locked, otherwise it cannot protect against fraud transfers. So go and lock all your domains now!

Comparison between different open source and proprietary source control management software. Many alternatives, with Subversion winning the favour of many open source developers. But we all agree that CVS and Visual SourceSafe should not be used for any new projects.

(Dilbert 7 Nov 2004) Looks like this is what I am going to wear today at work. No wonder that I have not been respected recently.

Something that has been anticipated so much since the release of Star Wars prequel – we all know that one day this “yappie” yelling 10 year-old kid is going to become that black helmeted villain wielding the dark side of the force. However, we all want to know that what exactly happened, and the famous [...]