Scott Yang's Playground

Via Simon, Andrew Lim wrote in Sydney Anglicans on buzzing your church using a well-designed, well-optimised, well-marketed, and get this — well-monetized church website. If done right, Internet can be a very good ally of Christian churches. With marketer’s cap on, Andrew listed out 3 points.

What I have been busy with in the last few days. Casualty list: Photos from the last 6 years. (Backed up on CD-R) Videos from the last 2 years. (Backed up on DVD-R) All Sunday sermons from the last 4 years. (Might be backed up “somewhere”, except recent talks) Anna‘s website. (Only DB is backed [...]

Have been quite stressful last couple of days — hard disk of the home server is dying, mails were dropped and files gone missing. Went out to buy a new hard disk yesterday and gotta do the upgrade tonight. But now this DreamHost DNS outage is just making my day worse. (Note: their website is [...]

James Gosling in Java Is Under No Serious Threat From PHP, Ruby or C#: “PHP and Ruby are perfectly fine systems,” he [Gosling] continued, “but they are scripting languages and get their power through specialization: they just generate web pages. But none of them attempt any serious breadth in the application domain and they both [...]

WordPress Download Page says the latest is now 2.0.2, although it still points to the 2.0.1 blog entry. version.php on the latest SVN 2.0 branch already has $wp_version = ’2.0.2′, but not yet tagged. I will be ready to upgrade 20+ blogs tonight from FOCUSer.net and some of my own blogs. Update: New entry on [...]

It has been three and half years since I got broadband connection at home. Not much has been changed since. Well, the price is — I am now paying about half the price for 16 times the download quota (although I rarely go over 3Gb each month), but the thing that actually made broadband broad, [...]

Haven’t been able to write properly for a few days. Busy busy busy. Yeah! Bought a new toy last week, the Billion BiPac 7401PAC that I said I was interested in here. Actually I got it delivered early last week but could only play with it after Friday. So far so good. My wireless now [...]

TechCrunch: CL2 — Google’s secret calendar application. Looks great indeed — very Gmail’ish. Personally I found Google’s recent “beta” applications way too complicated and heavy for browser (Google Page, Google Reader, etc). However “CL2″ looks like a calendar app that I will use. Especially if it can sync with Outlook, PDA and other desktop applications, [...]

MacRumours reports a Mac OS X box hacked in 30 minutes in a competition. Sounds like a local exploit to me, as hackers are free to create shell accounts on the box, although it tells nothing about how remotely-exploitable Mac OS X is. However (1) a local exploit with privileged escalation is still an exploit [...]

統一麵世界: 台灣人的泡麵文化 — 有令人懷念的廣告可以看。與 Vivian 一起看到肚子都餓了。註: 昨天晚上看了這網站，今天早上就吃了一包統一麵做早餐 :)

You Tube: The Simpsons Intro scenes with real actors. Very funny (oh I miss watching that cartoon). And Marge is a bloody Volvo driver :)

Daylight saving changes usually occur on the last Sunday of March and the last Sunday of October for the eastern states of Australia (Queensland excepted). This year is an exception. Got an email at work yesterday asking us to reboot our Windows boxes to have this patch applied. Apparently because of the upcoming Commonwealth Games [...]

Conversation on ICQ this morning: Tim: new mac mini and ipod stereo! Scott: very sweet. was looking at it a few minutes ago. Tim: ho man… this ipod stereo is more affordable than the boss version… Tim: it connects to an airtune…. and control using computer… Scott: together with the new mac mini and a [...]