Scott Yang's Playground

Via Boing Boing. Someone in Japan has implemented the whole of Nintendo classic Super Mario in Javascript. This is totally insane. Why someone would do that is beyond me, other than to prove that it can be done. It does bring back quite a bit of childhood memory though…

Since almost everyone in FOCUSer.net has taken the quiz, I’ll also give it a go. First of all, the Nerd? Geek? or Dork? quiz: Pure Nerd69 % Nerd, 21% Geek, 34% Dork Sounds like I might be pursuing knowledge, but not in a specific discipline. And yeah, I am more dorky than many :) Now [...]

Got an email this morning, from the technical recruiting team of… hmm, let’s call the company “A”, one of the largest on-line retailer in the world that I wish had a presence in Australia. She said that there will be interviews in Sydney next month, and asked me whether I would be interested in software [...]

Via Downloadsquad. Backpack from 37signals, who also gave us Basecamp and Ta-da List, claimed to be the on-line information manager for both individuals or small business. The mechanics is actually quite simple — I was in fact expecting a full-blown PIM suite when I heard the phrase “get organized“, but it gives me not much [...]

Eeek. I am going to do an out-of-date movie review again, only because Vivian and I cannot afford to go to cinema under our current circumstance. DVD rented this week — Hitch, a romantic comedy starring Will Smith as the “date doctor”, who has been helping desperated men to “sweep off” the feet of the [...]

Apple just released the new iPod Nano — solid state with 2/4Gb, measuring merely 24.8cm3, colour LCD, click wheel, and again very hip. Yeah! Just another thing that I want but would never need. $299 or $359 and it replaces the old aluminium-shielded iPod Mini. Now shall I wait for the iPod Pico? Here are [...]

There have been basically two types of “readers” on this blog. One is either my family, friends, church friends or other strangers who are interested in part of my daily life, my Christian opinions, and my occasional rant over things that do not really matter. They got bored reading posts with too many tech jargons, [...]

I have been participating in Google’s AdSense program for almost two and half months now, and have earned peanuts for placing AdWords contextual ads on two of my other blogsites, i.e. I am only almost there for my first greenback cheque sent by our beloved guys in the almighty G. Well, I guess I am [...]

It was the Fathers’ Day yesterday. Presents from Vivian and Anna :)

Sunday, 1:15pm Bible passages we were looking at was 1 John 3:16-5:5. In one of the application questions, it asked us to discuss practical ways to demonstrate our love for our Christian brothers. Instead, I asked everyone to share something that they should have done but failed to do last week, and how we can [...]

DVD we watched on Tuesday this week: Constantine, starring Keanu Reeve as a self-serving exocist trying to buy him own way to heaven, and Rachel Weisz as psychic catholic cop targetted by the son of Satan in this heaven-hell power struggle. My reaction after watching it — huh?! Yes, it is that bad. Again this [...]

Darren of ProBlogger has posted archive of his “31 Days to Building a Better Blog Headquarters” campaign. There are a lot of informative articles written by the Melburnian problogger himself and many other contributors. However, I think reading them is one thing, applying them consistently and persistently on my blog sites is another. Oh lazy [...]

This morning when I tried to sign on with Google Talk, a warning message popped up saying “You account has been locked“, and asked me to go to Google’s website to unlock my account. As I have been reading too much AdSense forum on WebmasterWorld lately, my immediate reaction was “uh-oh“. I thought Google has [...]