Scott Yang's Playground

Linux creator Linus Torvalds is now running a dual G5 2.0 PowerMac as his main desktop box, except that it does not run Mac OS X but Linux PPC. Important quote is “…Part of it is that I personally believe there are two main architectures out there: Power and x86-64 are what I think are [...]

I’ve just got the chance to start visiting my old WordPress plugins after upgrading this site to WP 1.5. Syntax highlighting with Enscript is broken, so I’ve made some changes to get it going again. Here’s a list of changes: Detect whether we are running under WP 1.5+ to pick the unmangling routine. WP1.5 double [...]

Finally!! Finally Google has decided to support old legacy browsers in their still-in-beta Gmail service. Extracted from Google.com: Not just any old computer. Actually, yes, any old computer! Basic HTML view lets you access your Gmail messages from almost any computer running almost any web browser, even old ones (not just IE5.5+, Mozilla, and Safari). [...]

Google Desktop Search has now came out of beta with its 1.0 release, including new features like searching Firefox history and Thunderbird emails. Also released is its plugin architecture – all I need now is a plugin to support OpenOffice.org files (or maybe the up coming OASIS format in just released OpenOffice.org 2.0 beta).

Finally, I’ve upgraded this site to WordPress 1.5 “Strayhorn”. Not as straightforward as I initially thought, as there were too many custom hacks from my previous install. I’ve also changed the theme slightly to get rid of the sidebar completely, replacing with a navigation bar at the top. None of my plugins is working yet, [...]

I am currently having my PHD. Not the kind where you need to lease out your soul to a slave trader for 3 years, but a sickness short for the Post-Holiday Depression. I got it every time I return to work from holidays. Usually the longer and better the holiday is, more severe the PHD [...]

07:15am Touch down08:15am Out of Sydney International Airport08:30am Arrive home. Unpack, take shower09:30am At office, taking a briefing on what has happened over the last 2 weeks Yeah. I am back from holidays in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Not yet recovered from illness caught in Taiwan, and now with bonus dizziness from jet lag. Funny [...]