Scott Yang's Playground

Thanks to Oliver T for inviting me into testing out the Yahoo! 360 beta. I haven’t had a chance to dip into it yet, but after a brief looking around, Y! 360 certainly looks very polished. While blog integrated social networking sites have been done to death over the last couple of years (I am [...]

On Tuesday night, parish nominators had our informal meeting with Rob and Deryck. It was great, though not surprising, to hear the diocese has the same mind set as the parish. In terms of decision making, everything seems to be in gear, and it is just a matter of formality to have it all wrapped [...]

Almost 3 hours of continuous driving has brought Vivian, Anna and I myself back to our home sweet home in Kingsford on Monday night. Headed bed early, but when I woke up yesterday morning, it appeared that 8 hours of sleep still could not flush out the tiredness. Yet deep inside I was still very [...]

Aargh! FOCUS website has been nuked! Time to send destruction to your mate’s blogsite :) Via AMK.

Via MacSlash, CaminoBrowser.org has just launched. Looks pretty cool, and hopefully it would keep its code base up to date, and becomes the better Mozilla than Firefox on the Mac.

Jeremy Zawodny thinks WordPress will dominate personal blog hosting, while MovableType will rule the corporate blogging world. Nah. I don’t think so. Considering who will be making suggestions on blogging software in the corporate world, it would be a big loss for SixApart to lose the personal/individual market.

I only got the chance to read through “Presentation and Exchange Ordinance”, which Ken passed to me two weeks ago, this morning on the bus. 11 pages of legal-like document detailing all the criteria, rules and regulations that is enough to put me to sleep. Why is it so complicated? For the sake of formality, [...]

Adam Penenberg talks on Wired on how easy it is to manipulate search engine result by buying/selling links. But a big warning sign should have be written across the top – “Excessive SEO is playing with fire!” And yeah, PageRank manipulation is so 90′s, which does not work that well today. The best SEO is [...]

Having used Del.icio.us for the last 5 months as my live bookmark manager, I have found a fancier implementation of the same social bookmarking concept today – BlogMarks. Having spent the last 10 minutes playing with it, I have quickly imported all my Del.icio.us bookmarks (thanks to the built-in Del.icio.us importer), added a few new [...]

Bob and wife are making and marketing a new candle they made, which help you to experience the fragrance of Christ. I am not a “candle-person”, but I wonder what would “His Essence” smell like.

A Tidy based HTML validator for Firefox, so that you can validate the web pages you visit instantly, without falling back to w3c’s validation service. Very very neat. Now the question is, should I surf around and be a W3C standard nazi?

Have you ever missed a flight? Going to the airport only finding out that the plane has already left? Or some bizzare reason that forbids you from leaving the country? Two weeks ago Vivian, Anna and I were departing Hong Kong to catch a flight to Taiwan. We were catching Dragon Air, and previously I [...]

Via WebMasterWorld. MSN is testing out its beta RSS aggregation service Start.com. Currently only works in Internet Exploder. Dynamic HTML using XMLHttpRequest everywhere – adding/removing feeds, reading news items, etc – none of them require page refresh. Sounds like a stiff competition with Bloglines.

Guido van Rossum discussed functional-programming-like syntax would not be needed in Python 3000, especially the nasty reduce() that brought more confusion than edification. I for one would love to move away from lambda, map() and filter() – I for one am not a LISP programmer and would like more explicit syntax like list/generator comprehension.

Stever Robbins demonstrated the tips for reading/writing emails to make them effective. Maybe I should take up his advise, especially when no one seems to be reading my emails!