Scott Yang's Playground

Google AdSense was down this morning, and it turned out that they have made a big mistake in paying in foreign currency. Instead of foreign amount = USD amount / exchange rate, they made it multiply instead. As most currency are lower than USD, Google has underpaid many publishers world wide except those lucky Brits, [...]

I have been using Internet Explorer 7 beta 2 for the last few days just to check out whether the web application we’ve developed still work on Redmond’s latest offering. Here’s my impressions. Feel free to comment. Interface looks sleek. Nice shades. No more menu bar (unless you want to be called a classic). Now you [...]

CSS Reboot 1st May 2006: Day to revamp your blog design and clean up all the hacks. Yeah it is another one of those “everybody sign up and have fun for no real incentive whatsoever”. I was actually thinking about cleaning up the design the other day, but I don’t think I can sneeze out [...]

Via Glenn. Skype has released Australian SkypeIn numbers so that people can dial a local number to reach you on Skype. Cost will be 10 euro for 3 months or 30 euro for 12 months. It actually compares quite well with other SIP-based VoIP DID providers here.

Topic for today’s CBF talk is The Death of God, and Warwick de Jersey gave this interesting quote. Sin is man substitutes himself for God. Salvation is God substitutes himself for men. How true! And yet it is so different from what most people today think about sin and salvation, where “sin” is people doing bad things toward [...]

Since my hard disk died more than a month ago, I have been trying to rescue that dead Western Digit drive using various methods — but so far they all appear to be in vain. Currently I am trying to copy the dead disk to another flesh one using dd_rescue in hope that I can [...]

And that’s what made this Blondie & Dagwood comic strip so funny. At the same time it is also the same dilemma that troubles many on-line diarists (let’s not call them “bloggers”), who always need to choose between “to write” or “not to write”.

MercuryNews: Scott McNealy has stood down as SUN CEO after 22 years, and their current COO Jon Schwartz will resume this role. Gee — that’s quite a change of era. I still remembers McNealy as the main arch rival of Gates in the 90’s. Quite a business man himself (remember dot in dot com?), but [...]

Two minor fixes/enhancement since Permalink Redirect 0.5 was released 2 months ago — and both were reported by the users. A typo has been fixed for “Permanently”. Thanks to Ara Pehlivanian A new filter “permalink_redirect_skip” can be used by the other plugins. It can take a list of regex paths and return a list of regex paths [...]

Via Download Squad. Google Calendar Data API has been released after gCal was released last week. Looks like you can do quite a few things with it — add an event, download feeds, do date-range query, etc. Now it is possible to write a synchronisation plugins for other calendars like Outlook or Yahoo! Calendar. Announcement [...]