Scott Yang's Playground

Steve Vai plays “Tender Surrender” on Google Video Search. This is fully sick. “Tender Surrender” on the Alien Love Secrets EP was actually one of my favourites, and looking at how it was performed is amazing. Steve Vai is truly a show man. By the way, you can download videos in FLV format on Google [...]

I love Google Video Search — great way to waste your evening and plenty of bandwidth. However, I hate to watch video on a Flash player embeded inside a web browser window. I also hate to download the same video again and again every time I want to watch it. So yesterday evening I hacked [...]

Via Slashdot, SGI‘s stock has been delisted from NYSE. Again, that reminded me how much turbulence IT world has. Back in my days, SGI used to make sexiest boxes for un*x geeks (wow! look at the curve of that blue O2), and contributed influential technologies (OpenGL, STL, etc). I still remember computer shows in the [...]

It was great that Al Stewart is back preaching at the City Bible Forum for the rest of this year. He’s one of my favourite Bible teacher. Sharp and clear his preaching is, and they are always challenging. The passage for this week is on Luke 12:49-57. Al started with different images of Jesus people [...]

lukhnos — 一個拼錯了二十年的名字。原來倉頡（中文輸入法）這二十年來被拼成 Changjei 是當初倚天不知道哪一位工程師半夜三點趕工中不小心給拼出來的。不過我根本沒有注意到的原因是 — 我到現在都還只會用微軟新注音！

Windows Live “beta” — absolutely the most talked about topic on Internet over the last two days. Heavy “Ajax” that has been all over the web these days which I have started to hate. Doesn’t work on Firefox yet, and it constantly crashed my Internet Explorer. Still, sounds like Microsoft has finally decided to ditch [...]

Via lesscode. Alex Bunardzic, who might have recently found himself hated by many ‘database geeks’, quoted this interview with David Heinemeier Hansson and wrote another article on the myth of data integrity, where he debunked the ‘sacred cows’ of the corporate IT practices — the data integrity of the relational database. His main points were: [...]