Scott Yang's Playground

Who cares about Web 2.0, as I have just found the single most useful Ajax application of all time — AjaxTerm, powered by QWeb the Python web framework. From its own description: Ajaxterm is a web based terminal. It was totally inspired and works almost exactly like Anyterm except it’s much more easy to install. [...]

The Epoch Times: 6,000 Falun Gong practitioners jailed, murdered and organs harvested for black market. Very sad story. And it is all happening when Howard and Wen happily signed the Uranium deal together for their “win-win” deal. Pray that Falun Gong practitioners can see the light and worship the true God. Pray that the Chinese [...]

Had dinner at Sam’s Cafe in Croydon Saturday night. It was really in the middle of no where, but wasn’t really hard to find. Entree (Lobster soup) Mains (Lobster w/ rice and marinated chicken roll w/ rice) Desert According to Vivian the seafood is very nice and she can’t wait til the next visit, although [...]

Everywhere is blogging about it, apparently Mark Pilgrim has blogged again after 18 month of absense. He’s one of my favourite blogger who has gone indefinite-hiatus (you can see from how much I’ve quoted him in the past). Welcome back!

ProBlogger: Aussies AdSense publishers can now be paid by EFT, which is heaps better than paying by cheques which always took ages to deliver (and sometimes I am too lazy to deposit). To change payment to EFT, (1) Go to My Account/Account Settings in AdSense (2) Edit “Payment Details” (3) Put in your BSB and [...]

SMH: Judas redeemed — A fifth gospel challenges one of the basic Christian beliefs. Basically a manuscript of “the Gospel of Judas”, a gnostic writing dated in the 300-400 AD has been released, where it stated Judas “the good guy” betrayed Jesus on Jesus’ ordered, the beloved disciple of Jesus is not John but Mary [...]

SMH: $1,551.78 toll for taking the Cross City Tunnel. It seems that that deserted tunnel is the only place in the Sydney CBD where you can drive at 125km/hour, and for the first six months of operation it has already generated $594,950 of revenue in speeding fines. Sounds like an alternative income for the operators [...]

I love Deals Direct, and you can probably see that for all the free advertisement I made on Bargain Blog. I have received their latest news letter today with subject “All deals under $30 — Perfect gift ideas!“. However what appears first in front of me is – 120 x Environmental Zip Up Shopping Bags [...]

Via the Transforming Humanoid Optimized for Mathematics and Accurate Sabotage, So it stands for Synthetic Cybernetic Organism Trained for Troubleshooting in the cyborg language. Or in layman’s term it sounds like helpdesk monkey kind of job description, which is very true sometimes.

Apple introduced Boot Camp — software enables Intel-based Macs to run Windows XP. It is great to have the “official support” from the company who actually manufactored these beauties. It also makes the previous effort/context looks a bit, hmmm, wasted (except the one who won the 13 grand price). Of course you can argue that [...]

Well, not new anyway, but just to have fun with 5th of April 2006 being the very first annual CSS naked day where websites everywhere takes their stylesheets off. You probably won’t notice much difference anyway, as my previous style is so “thin” you probably did not notice it.

I need to do a nested blockquote in Textile inside TextPattern, and it has made me even more frustrated. The question is, how? Nested blockquotes in HTML? I know how to do that! I need to do something like this. <blockquote> <blockquote> <p>This is the inner quoted paragraph.</p> </blockquote> <p>This is the outter quoted paragraph.</p> [...]

Apple Computer, founded on 1st of April 1976, has turned 30 today. A lot of change for a company in 30 years, wasn’t it? Especially for a technology company that leads the world in style and usability. One of my first few computing experience was Apple ][ at my uncle’s place when I was 8-9, [...]

If you are like me, who always forgot all the different configuration of RAID (Redundant array of independent/inexpensive disks), the following illustration should be very useful. It was sent to me at work. Original author unknown.

Via Slashdot, 1up.com took a look at Elderscrolls Oblivion and compared the difference between the “Eastern” and “Western” role-playing games. Here’s the quote (emphasis is mine): Western RPGs focus on the characters, and the world around them is a tool to let the player-as-character do and see more. Eastern RPGs focus on the events unfolding [...]