Scott Yang's Playground

“What if…” it is something we often pondered. What if this event did not happen? What if the result was the other way around? What if something else has occurred on that day?” Watched The Butterfly Effect (Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart, directed by Bress and Gruber) on DVD with Vivian on Tuesday (thanks to Grace [...]

For the last 3 and half years, My main computer for home and work has been this trustworthy-but-heavy Dell Inspiron 8000 laptop that I started using since February 2001. It was purchased by the company I worked for. Through out all these years, while many things have changed, it just kept on going and going. [...]

Abandonia.com – home of abandonware DOS games. Not sure about the legal issues here, but it does bring back lots of pixelised memory of my childhood, from mid ’80s to early ’90s. Great companion to the DOS Box project.

“Hello World” written by programmers at different level of evolution, ranging from high school students, to professionals, to hackers and to managers. It’s only funny when you realise the truth behind it…

A blogsite listing items on sale at eBay and other Internet auction places that are so odd which leave you wondering, “who would buy that?” Well, someone did buy that Virgin Mary grilled cheese sandwich. But I guess a better question is, who in their sanity would actually sell these?

Instruction on how to cook an egg with 2 mobile phones. It takes 3 minutes for a free range chicken egg, assuming the radio transmission output is around 2 watt. Another nice usage (or abuse) for all your free Optus ‘Yes’-times!

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 [...]