Scott Yang's Playground

Planned to start a new site. Topic? All set. Hosting? Will be at my new VPS. It is going to be a light traffic site on a specific topic updated maybe once or twice a week, so I think a simple blogging app will suffice, i.e. no complicated CMS system. So far I have two [...]

List of Bests: 50 things to eat before you die. Taken from BBC’s vote in 2004 but you can re-order it. I have only eaten 29 out of 50 from that list, but I don’t think I want to eat the rest (mostly seafood). Banquet in heaven will be much better I reckon.

Went to a FOCUS wedding last Saturday. It was Marcus and Polly’s, and it was great. Why FOCUS weddings are so good? Great testimonyThose got married were the ones that you have known for years at church, and their growth in Christian life and commitment in marriage are great encouragement. Great teachingIt seems the line [...]

I wrote about how Commonwealth Games affected daylight saving in Australian states, and its implications to software developers. It seems that the easiest way is not to patch it, but announce that daylight saving will end early on your site instead, and state that the issue will be automatically fixed in one week. I wish [...]

Stephen from ESV.org researched the “Origin of Red-Letter Bibles”, i.e. Jesus’ words printed in red. I too always wondered where they came about. I actually liked red-letter Bibles. Not because these parts are more God-breathed than the rest (though some think they are), but I just found it sometimes easier to search for a particular [...]

Photo of crashed application running on Linux on an Airbus 330 in the mid air. Yeah, that was the cute Tux in the photo. However I think I will freak out if I see Linux bootstrapping inside my in-flight entertainment centre.

web.py, the minimalistic Python web application framework which I rant about two and half months ago, has been re-released as Public Domain by its author Aaron Swartz, announced in this mail to the news group.

Bought an “almost new” HP iPAQ H5550 Windows Mobile 2003 device this week, via this Deals Direct offer. It got delivered on Tuesday, but I have only managed to charge it up and have a try today. It is my second Pocket PC device. Hence my issue. With this new iPAQ, I now have 2 [...]

Via Neil, Everything you ever needed to know about copyright in the church context. Looks very complicated, and it seems it can be quite easy to violate with short clips taken out from full length movies (which many ministries often do). However as Christians I think we should either (1) comply and pay, or (2) [...]

Google has released its Finance portal onto beta. Cool bananas. The Ajax price chart integrating with company announcement is cool. It is also nicely integrated with related news (from Google News) and related blog entries (from Google Blog Search). It even has pictures to company directors and managers, when you hover over them. No price [...]

Here are some new words today. Googlability noun. The accessibility of someone/something’s online presence by googling. Google verb. To perform a search on Google using combination of keywords. noun. Larry and Sergey’s company. Another interesting article via Slashdot: NY Daily — Being Googled can jeopardize your job search. Full of stories whose not-so-private life being [...]

AdSense Preview Tool for Firefox. It basically just creates a pop up window showing what ads would appear on the web page you are looking at, if Google AdSense is used. Very useful for deciding whether you should put AdSense on your website. However it does not have localisation preview like the “official” preview tool, [...]

GvR quoted Neil Schemenauer on Library or Framework: A framework is just an application with a lot of hooks; you can design a framework in an entirely ad-hoc fashion by starting with an app that does one thing and trying to generalize in various directions. You can stop at almost any moment and call it [...]

I wrote this quite a while ago on Whirlpool forum over a debate on Australian verses overseas (usually US-based) web hosting. Thread has since been closed (not my fault :) but I think I will repost my thoughts here, looking at what is the most suitable web hosting solution for Aussies.

One thing new I’ve learnt from Joshua’s preaching today on John 1. He mentioned that in John 20:31, despite the way it has been translated, it literally means “… so that you may believe that the Christ is Jesus” instead of Jesus is the Christ. Purpose of John’s Gospel is more towards “Finding the One” [...]