Merry Christmas and wish you a happy new year. Plan for today: AM: Visit a Christmas service, because we don’t have one. PM: Visit Vivian’s relatives in Alexandria. Hasn’t really been in the blogging mood here for quite a while because I am tired. I will be taking leaves for the next two weeks so [...]
Via Simon, three videos every church website should have. It just makes so much sense. Which one do you prefer, if you are trying to decide whether you want to visit a church, if you are new to the region? Pages after pages of text trying to explain who we are, theological brief, what we [...]
Google AdSense for content is now available to 4 new languages, adding to their big list of supported languages. One being the Traditional Chinese, 繁體中文, which also happens to be my preferred language. You can already do Traditional Chinese in AdWords if you have a product to sell, but now web content providers and bloggers [...]
Check out what Vivian has picked up on the side of the road in Bondi on Saturday. A pram (sorry, toddler pictured not part of the deal)! A Valco Roundabout to be exact, although some accessory is missing. The pram itself is in very good condition. Besides missing accessories, there is some rust on the [...]
It has been almost a year since the last update (way too busy at the moment), but here you are — a new version of Search Engine Highlight Javascript for your websites. What is in this change: More search engines are supported. Added MSN Live, Technorati and Dogpile. Add the framework for search engines that [...]
Mark Pilgrim: REST for toddlers. Yet another master piece, and this is just so funny. It will probably make more sense if you were required to design a web server or a HTTP client that uses comprehensive list of HTTP status code. Some of my favourite: 412 Precondition Failed: “If you don’t eat your meat, [...]
Went to City Bible Forum yesterday, and Malcolm Williams from FEVA gave a talk with an excellent title: “Why Materialism Is One of The Best Things about Christmas”. I love the title because it gets in your face and is controversial — Christians have been preaching for ages that Christmas is not about shopping, exchanging [...]
SMH: Embryo cloning gets the go-ahead, after the conscience vote from the house of representatives last night. A truly sad day for Australia, where its protestant root has been long forgotten. John Howard’s speech transcript is actually a nice read, where he argued from Christian’s point view against relativism. Also noted that both John Howard [...]
Last year was Peter Jensen, this year RBA’s ex-boss Ian Macfarlane is on ABC Radio’s Boyer Lectures, on the topic of Searching for Stability. Very interesting talks, looking at Australia economy from after WW II to the recent years. A bit heavy for my engineer’s head, but it does give me some new perspective on [...]
Went to the Gravatar website this morning, and saw the message its funder Tom Werner has put on: … In order to handle the rapidly increasing load, I’ve had to experiment with a variety of server architectures. I ask for your patience during the coming weeks as I test out a few setups. The new [...]
HostingFu: EveryDNS Under DDoS Attack, which brought down many domains over the last 2 days. It actually hosts half of my active domains, including this very website and focuser.net. Slashdot also reported it today. Definitely not the first time. If you are on focuser.net and were wondering why your blogs were down yesterday, it was [...]
Instead of going to work, I have been sitting around at home doing nothing for the last two days. I was sick — that’s why. Got a flu on Monday, and then went through all that temperature, running nose, dizziness, headache, coughing, etc. I am getting better now, and hopefully will head back to work [...]
Zoooom Zooom!! Went out doing some shopping last night (thanks Tim for babysitting!) and came back home with a nice silver blue Porsche 911 Turbo! A 997 series I believe. It actually took us quite a few minutes to decide on the purchase. You know, it can sometimes be difficult choosing between Dodge Viper, Nissan [...]
Via Slashdot, apparently you are infringing copyright law and could be fined if you get caught singing “Happy Birthday to You” in public in Australia. The phrase has not only been trademarked, the 4-lines of lyrics has also been copyrighted by the Warner Chappell Music, and they won’t expire until 2030. Aargh!! I’ve just realised [...]
I was listening to net@nite episode 2 with Amber MacArthur and Leo Laporte on my way to work last week. They were discussing a new service, MyFinalParty.com, a website that helps you to plan “not only your funeral but also everything else”. Then a website called MyDeadSpace.com, a tribute site for all those who have [...]
Playground is the personal weblog of Scott Yang, a Chinese-Australian Christian who works as a software developer in Sydney Australia.