Scott Yang's Playground

The phone that I ordered through iSim has finally arrived yesterday, and my life without a mobile phone has came to an end. Not that I have missed much though, as last night when I turned the phone on and got connected back to the network for the first time in nearly a week, I [...]

Lego Star Wars video game, let you become a true Jedi Knight battling the baddies through adventure of Episode I to III. Yes, I love my force wielding Jedi in blocks.

A list of 100 oldest dot com domains, first one being registered on 15 March 1985. And the sad thing is, while the domain is still there, the companies have already cease to exist…

Tim Challies had an interesting point looking at “why Jesus died so soon on the cross”. Crucification is not quick and painless, but death preluded by prolonged suffering. At the end he concluded, “Jesus did not lose His life; He gave it.“

Saw it on /. Multiple Browsers Window Injection Vulnerability Test. Secunia claimed that all most modern browsers are vulnerable to this attack, which allows another site to replace the URL of a popup window in a legitimate site. For example, go to a bank site, click on the link to popup the login window, and [...]

Reuters reports that IBM has sold its PC department to Lenovo Group, China’s largest PC maker. The guy who started the personal computer era has now left the field, except the future looks bright. Should have kept my original IBM 8088 XT – it must be a collectors’ item now.

I think I need a new mobile phone. The four and three quarter years old Nokia 8210 has not been stable lately. Bought it for Vivian in March 2000, and it survived quite a few drops before it got knocked out with no reception. Got it fixed in Hong Kong 2 years ago with a [...]

Thunderbird 1.0 is out. MUA of choice on Windows. Too bad that at work we are forced to use Outlook, on Linux I only used mutt, and on Mac Mail.app rules.

Phillip Eby wrote an article on his blog titled Python is Not Java, stating the common mistakes Java programmers often made when they tried to write a Python application, due to different idioms used in each language. While I agree that you cannot simply convert something line by line from one language to another, Eby’s [...]

Virgin Mary, ET – and now someone is selling her father’s ghost on eBay to drive her child’s fear away, reported by Religion News Blog. I for one would not be very please if Anna is trying to put my “ghost” on eBay after I pass away.

Well, it has been sitting in the garage for the last 4 months, and I finally decided to sell my beloved, hmmm, “motherboard”. It is an Abit BP6, the board that rocked the world, which once provided cheap entrance to SMP by exploiting the multi-processor capability of the Mendocino-cored Intel Celeron. Brought it in mid-’99, [...]

Via del.icio.us/popular. Optimizing JavaScript for Execution Speed written by Andrew King. Many useful tips on screezing the last bit of performance from interpreted Javascript. Reducing variable lookup in context traversal and expensive property access seems to solve half of the problem.

Bruce Schneier commented on Lycos’ screen saver DDoS spammers’ website, and concluded that revenging a wrong still does no good to the justice system of the society. Quite right.

Via Slashdot, that Microsoft has launched the beta version of its own blog hosting service – MSN Spaces. I quickly went and sign up a site (Microsoft Passport login required), and here it is: Scott’s Space on MSN After about 5 minutes of playing around, here’s some unsorted quick comments in point form. Doesn’t really [...]

Interesting news that I’ve collected today – things happening to the people that I know.