Scott Yang's Playground

A step by step guide on setting up a home theatre PC, including tips on software and hardware. It would come handy when I get my new LCD monitor.

I don’t mind having John Paul II’s funeral today, but I am very glad that Charles and Camilla have rescheduled their wedding to tomorrow, the 9th of April. At least I know that I do not have to celebrate my anniversary with them… :)

Had sore throat this morning and felt sick. Email work that I’m going to take a sickie, and then realise how many of them have I taken so far this year. Must have been this age thing. Or maybe lack of exercise. Or maybe over stressed. Or maybe all of the above…

Yeah. One more ride on this blue planet around the sun will bring the number to the utterly evil big three-oh. Hopefully it will be a slow ride…

One thing I really liked about Yahoo! 360 (ask me for an invite if you have not got one) is its implementation of access control. You can choose from multiple level of privacy for different sections of your Yahoo! 360. For example, you might want everyone on 360 to see your real name, restrict your [...]

In the April 2005 issue of In The Black magazine, there is an interesting article “Where is your manner?” designed for business travellers so they’ll know how to behave appropriately in different cultures. Out of the 10 trivial questions, I could only answer 4 correctly – and that was only because the background culture for [...]

“The World” is a group of 250-300 artificial islands near Dubai, which will be developed into private homes, estate homes, dream resorts, and community islands. Taiwan is a 3.11 acres island in triangle-like shape. Anyone wants to buy it and declare independence?

Open gay bishop of Episcopal Church of US commented that Jesus might be homosexual. It bound to happen, when people started ignoring what was written in the scripture. However, the sad thing is, if his Jesus was practising something that is sinful and unacceptable to God, then how can his salvation be assured, when the [...]

Here is my BlogMap: Only 46 bloggers near by? And what is it with Microsoft MapPoint banners all over the place?

Matt M. responded to WordPress Google spamming accusations being reported previously. Is it about the money? No, he responded, but I just could not see what else. “Faith” is something that will be very difficult to re-acquire once one party felt betrayal (look at SixApart and their MT license), but Matt is certainly working hard [...]

Sixfoot! 660 is the social network of all social networks. Very funny playing a satire of Yahoo! 360.

NASA has finally found water on Mars – with photo as evidence as well. I don’t care about that water, but can I have that Mars, please?

Gmail was announced exactly one year ago, on the April Fool’s Day last year, and has forever changed the history of web mail. Well, at least in terms of mailbox size. I thought it was a joke last year, but no one is doubting its existence by now. It has became my secondary email account [...]

Matt M. of WordPress fan has been caught cloaking and spamming Google according to this Slashdot article. That is wrong. Plain wrong for whatever excuses. Now WordPress is tainted by this event, where shall I move to?

GIMPshop is a hacked GIMP 2.2 that makes it Adobe PhotoShop look-alike under Mac OS X. Very cool idea for a very cool product. Not that I needed as I have never used PhotoShop – been using GIMP since its 0.5x Motif days.