Scott Yang's Playground

SMH: Poor little millionaires – Australian millionaires are reluctant to recognise themselves as well-to-do, and even the very rich still cry poor. Yes! Some people with over $3,000,000 dollars in asset and equity are still thinking that they are just “getting along”, and some even think that they are “poor”, when they are living in [...]

SMH: Chris McGillion commented about whether Peter Jensen will be the next Anglican Primate, and the effects if he is indeed elected. Interesting article from two sides of the coin. I did not really know what was going on in the Australia-wide Anglican scene (as I am rightly stereo-typed as an arrogant Sydney Anglican), but [...]

Some guy at decloak tries to argue the superiority of layout using table tag, over the web standard using CSS. Go and read his arguments, and have a big laugh. It is the people with this kind of mentality that are keeping the web from moving forward.

OpenID is a decentralized identity system that will not crumble when one company turns evil or goes out of business. Not sure whether Brad infers Microsoft or SixApart, but OpenID is indeed an interesting idea – a global identifier that uses your blog software or community application to return IDs. Nothing introduced previously has ever [...]

As discussed on Slashdot, is another PHP library vulnerability that affects PEAR’s XML-RPC module. James at GulfTech has demonstrated this vulnerability with an exploit. It turns out the PHP XML-RPC library uses eval() without checking, which allows arbitary PHP code to be executed if the XML-RPC message is cleverly crafted.

I have been thinking about doing it for a while – a blog that lists all the cheap deals that we have discovered during the week, a blog that might save us a few pennies – a bargain blog. There are actually quite a few bargain blogs or hot deal listings out there on the [...]

The word Folksonomy (or commonly known as “tagging”) has to be one of biggest buzzwords on Internet today, as it has been popularised by del.icio.us, Flickr and the like. What is folksonomy anyway? Here is the definition from WikiPedia (as of 4 July 2005): Folksonomy is a neologism for a practice of collaborative categorization using [...]

Last week I looked at the option of adding sponsored links via AdSense to this site. So far I am getting around 5 bucks from the clicks. Not too bad I guess, but at the same time it is far from covering my Internet bandwidth. An interesting exercise nevertheless, as it was my very first [...]

blogs4God, the Christian blogging directory, is going to move from MovableType to Drupal, Mean Dean announced. Drupal is really good for community blogging. Great platform and efficient clean code. The new FOCUS website will be based on Drupal as well. Can’t wait to see the new b4G.

Yesterday I went to my ex-course mate Gary’s wedding. A big one I’ll say. Around 300 people crowded into St. Clement to witness the big day – people from two difference churches, families, colleagues, friends, bible college, etc. A big night as well, as the wedding continued in the Chinese banquet style. We got to [...]