Scott Yang's Playground

Landed in Hong Kong 2 days ago, the first destination of my so-called “holiday”. It has been 2 years since I last visited the Pearl of Orient. An energy-packed city with full of excitement (after 1pm that is). Small piece of land. Crowed street. High rise residential buildings one after anther occupying the entire landscape. [...]

WordPress 1.5 has gone gold, announced by Matt Mullenweg. That is a good news. I’ve been playing around the 1.5 gamma for a while, and it has many new exciting features, especially the theme support. However, I won’t be able to upgrade my site until I come back from holidays, which is by early March.

Jeremy Zawodny reckons you’ll need at least 1Gb in today’s Windows desktop. A few months ago I am running 2xVim, 2xPuTTY, 2xJAJC, Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice.org AND FirebirdSQL all at once on a 700Mhz lappy with only 256Mb of RAM. Got 1Gb now on this box, and I am much happier :)

1 week in Hong Kong. 1 week in Taiwan. Starting tomorrow. Catching an early morning flight. Leaving all the mess behind (for a little while). Great.

Bruce Schneier raised concern on the “secret question” required for on-line site registeration. I always have the same wonder – why bother to use a less secure mechanism to guard your more important secrecy? It is more like for me to know your mother’s maiden name, your first pet’s name or the city you were [...]

It has been a month and half since the beginning of this new year, but just in case you have not had your new year resolution planned, this social networking site allows you to put in up to 43 things that you want to do, blog about them, keep track of your progress, and share [...]

9:30pm at night and got an ICQ message from Wilson, asking whether I have noticed that Yahoo is now labeling my server as bulk mail sender. So immediately I tested sending different messasges (all legitimate with non-spammy content), originated from different domains to one of my Yahoo account, and everyone of them landed in the [...]

I am not a CPA. I have no idea about accounting other than the compulsory first year subjects that were half-jokingly named ‘Accounting for Engineers’. However, I do try my best to read the CPA magazine In The Black every now and then for interesting articles concerning the corporate world. Deborah Tarrant wrote an interesting [...]

Jeremy Zawodny compares company’s policy/view point on employee blogging between Yahoo and Google, after the Mark Jen incident, where he was fired by Google for blogging about work. Suddenly, Yahoo is the good guy here whereas Google is the villian. And since not everyone is working at Y!, it might be good idea to keep [...]

Evangelical Blog Award 2005 voted by readers of Evangelical Underground. Quite interesting to read through them all.

Big news in the blogging world from the last couple of days has to be Bloglines‘ acqusition by the search engine giant Ask Jeeves. Congratulation to Mark Fletcher, who in recent years have two of his creations acquired by big Internet portals. From what he has blogged on his site, it seems Bloglines service would [...]

I thought I was going to give up blogging all together last month, just like what Mark Pilgrim had done last year, “It’s time for me to find a new hobby. Preferably one that doesn’t involve angle brackets. Or computers. Or electricity.“ It has been all good. I am happy without it. Life goes on [...]