Scott Yang's Playground

As Bruce Schneier has suggested, I have also added a latest comments section on Scott Yang’s Playground, so I can keep track the most recent contributors to this blogsite, and remember which ones I need to reply. I don’t get as many visitors as Mr. Schneier’s security news site, so I will not embarrass myself [...]

Steve Jobs’ speech at Stanford graduation is interesting. Besides boasting about how him dropping out of college has made proportional spaced fonts and typography a reality on both PC and Mac, also what a wonderful life he has achieved after getting fired by the company he founded. But the most amusing quote has to be [...]

Bad Behavior plugin for WordPress, not your usual content-analysing comment spam filters, but it looks at HTTP traffic and browsing behaviour to determine whether the incoming request is a human or a bot. I have installed it for 2 weeks, and had dramatically reduced not only comment/trackback spams, but also referral log spams. Great plugin!

10 years. It can be like forever for some, but relatively short for the others. The question is – what will you be in 10 years time? Have you planned your next decade recently? Will you still trust in Jesus’ death and resurrection? Where will you move to? Which church will you partner with? What [...]

OpenSolaris – SUN Microsystems’ open source un*x operating system. We have one running at work for a few weeks, but I’ve never bothered logging onto it. Probably that Slowaris-phobia I’ve got from my Uni and GET days. And this blog entry gives me a good laugh.

wg: A pocket guide to inspirational sites – lots of eye-candies, and a great list of CSS enhanced sites for self-evaluation. Also great place to look for design ideas for up-coming sites.

You would think that a 3 day long-weekend would give people an extra 24 hours of resting, but I did wake up more tired this morning than other average Mondays. Ouch. I am physically tired, but this week I only have 4 days for recovery. Highlight on Saturday was steamboat with my bible study group. [...]

It is not easy to be generous – the attribute is to be acquired, it is something that needs to be taught. It is especially difficult to be generous over the matters that might not be directly relevant to us. It is not easy to set aside part of your income to support your local [...]

Michael Boyink argues that webmasters should stop working on their church websites on a volunteer basis, as their “free” work will never be valued by the congregation, who mostly do not understand how Internet works. While Michael has made his point, and I do agree to some extend that it can be difficult and not [...]

Ryan Tomayko rebuked Daniel Sabbah of IBM’s claim where LAMP cannot scale and the model should “grow up”. He argued the traditional 3/n-tier design cannot scale due to its complexity, and a simple state-less design would be more scalable, faster and easier to develop. I am not really convinced, and I do hope that they [...]

The Inquirer reports Chinese government is now forcing all websites and bloggers to register, and they have until the end of this month to comply. <sarcasm<It is great to see how the Big Brothers are really looking after you, even taking interest in your daily life through your on-line journal!</sarcasm>

According to live WWDC 2005 coverage, Steve Jobs announced the next transition – to Intel x86 based processors. The first Intel Mac is expecting this time next year, and whole Mac product line will be “Intel Inside” in 2 years.

A bug regarding to “404 Not Found” handling has been reported by James, and I’ve patched Permalink Redirect WordPress plugin this moring to 0.3. Download the latest here. Changes: Do not try to redirect in a 404 situation.

This is an update for my permalink redirect WordPress plugin. Download the latest version here. Changes: Handle ?m=yyyymmdd style query string. Suggested by Mark. Handle pages. Suggested by Chris. Handle archive by author.

Min Jun Kim, a seasoned blogger, talked about different stages of being an on-line journalist. I’ve only be in temporary hiatus once or twice – so I guess I am only somewhere in the middle of the life cycle.