Scott Yang's Playground

Somehow one of my recent post was enlisted on del.icio.us/popular today! Yes, I am popular! So I took a screenshot, together with the Firefox status bar showing the URL, for the remembrance of my fame today. As due to the nature of del.icio.us, that entry will probably be delisted in the next hour, and due [...]

Sick of that massive Apache mod_rewrite rules generated by WordPress to have user-friendly URLs? Annoyed by the fact that you need to re-generate all these rules and save them into your already-crowded .htaccess file, when a “page” is created or re-named in WP? Try the following rules, and it’ll fix mod_rewrite woes once for all. <IfModule [...]

龍應台所寫的「你不能不知道的台灣 」。在台灣長大的哪幾年… 在大敘述的教育下… 我對統獨思想的轉變… 真的是我不能不知道的台灣。政治－下次再寫啦。

Moved! I have moved this project to my new programming/Internet blog — Permalink Redirect WordPress plugin. About I am not sure why the WordPress people insist that, GET /2005/05/29/foo-bar HTTP/1.1 is exactly the same as GET /2005/05/29/foo-bar/ HTTP/1.1 If you have not spotted the difference, one has a trailing forward slash ‘/’ in the URI and one does [...]

GreatNews – the intelligent news reader. It’s available on Windows. It’s free. Made by a fellow Chinese. It is relatively light-weight (no .NET nor Java). It has lots of features that I cannot get use to. Moreover, it has Bloglines integration, so my reading status is still stored centralised.

Via B. Schneier, a pedophile was convicted, and existence of PGP on his desktop is one evidence. That guy is guilty regardless, but now the verdict is – if you have something to hide, you might be guilty! Better go and Rot26 all my world domination plans.

I have not updated mtsend.py for more than a year, as it has been working quite comfortably for me. I have made some slight modifications during this year just to scratch some of my itches. Also thanks to Ilkka Poutanen for providing bug fixes on the printTable() routine. Thus I am declaring mtsend.py an 1.0 [...]

What you see in the picture is not a pile of computer parts that just happen to lie on the floor. It is, however, my new television set in our living room. And total TV time for Scott over the last two days: 30 minutes. And that was already quite an achievement. A big step [...]

Just updates on some of my current “projects” that have kept me very much occupied.

Jedi.org 在兩千年寫的。很適合想要開始研究 Star Wars 的迷。原力信仰, 原力哲學, 原力迷思.