Scott Yang's Playground

WordPress 2.0.4 has just been released, and use “svn switch http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.0.4/” command if you subversion to manage WP installations, instead of going through seemingly complicated upgrade process. It’s a security update (hopefully no new functionalities, unlike 2.0.3), so good idea to apply ASAP.

SMH: Increasing number of marrying couples asking for cash rather than gifts from their guests in their wedding reception. Sounds like what Chinese has been doing for many centuries :) I myself don’t quite get the idea of gifts — most of the time the perceived value is less than the cost, so might as [...]

Drive Blog: Is front-wheel drive better than rear-wheel drive? One thing I really like about Drive.com.au’s latest blog is, the editors know how to use flame baits. Posts were always written in the way that encourages discussion, and they know that the best way to generate discussion is by asking questions that do not have [...]

Yet another useless Internet quiz that tries to match your personality with something more identifiable. Which Website are You? Wikipedia? No wonder people kept on bugging me as though I was yellow pages.

Google has just released its latest project, Google project hosting — a “SourceForge-like” hosting services for open source projects. So far it has only an issue tracker and Subversion repository so I don’t see how it “competes” with SourceForege feature-wise. At least it has the scalability and reliability of Google’s infrastructure. It also has the [...]

Just saw this entry on Mark Pilgrim’s blog, which mainly talked about accessibility. But there’s a paragraph or two in the middle that talks about plush toys. My two-year-old can say “Firefox”. I point at the plush toy and say, “What’s this?” and he says “Firefox!” and clutches it with both hands and pulls it [...]

Exetel, the broadband service provider that I have been using, started reselling Optus’ ADSL2+ product yesterday, and have their sign up form activated at around 10′ish in the morning. I went there and have a look, to my surprise, Kensington exchange is now Active according to their NSW exchange list! A few days when I [...]

My whole family loves The Koala Brothers, which is usually broadcasted on ABC after 8am, just before I depart for work in the morning. The Aussie-animal themed characters are cute, and distinctive. The moral of each episode is usually helping each other out. A nice good feeling kind of show. One character that we like [...]

Last night I have posted my very first flash video on the web — and it was Anna sitting there watching, her own video for 2 minutes (which probably would only interest the parents and grand-parents). Anna’s video aside, I was also having fun figuring out getting that video online. There are many ways putting [...]

Vivian’s birthday today, so she picked me up from work in the evening, and we went to Dining Bar Musashi for dinner tonight. And thanks to Amanda who baby-sit for us :) It was surely a popular Japanese restaurant. When we arrived there were already people queuing up outside. Here’s what we have ordered: (Teriyaki [...]