Scott Yang's Playground

“Everyone has a dead line this week”, I joked about in the Bible study group on Sunday. Students have their assignments due this week (last week before the exams over here), and I have my tax return to do. Actually, I have two to do as I also have to do the tax return for [...]

Via Google Blog, The Domino Effect with lots of Diet Coke, Mentos and way too much time. Awesome video. The only annoying bit is that two guys in lab coat walking around making sure everything is smooth running.

Dana Blankenhorn of ZDNet suggested Mozilla should take over OpenOffice.org because of OO.o’s slow development. I think he is either out of his mind, or doing a “John Dvorak” style link bait (which I have bitten). For one, OpenOffice.org is leaps ahead of Office 97 — I’ll even argue that it is better than Office [...]

Matt of WordPress.com has announced domain registration and mapping for their blogging service — $10/year if you already have a domain registered, or $15/year if you register through them. Very well priced service on a very scalable platform. I’ll sign up if I don’t already have more blog sites than I can currently handle.

Google has released a guideline on how you can use the word “google”, and you are explicitly forbidden to use “google” as verb when you mean searching with an engine other than Google. Lorelle has also written a blog post to warn about using the word “WordPress”, as it is now a trademark of Automattic. [...]

Ohloh: PHP Eats Rails for Breakfast. A clearly link bait title, as it is in fact analysing by the “language”, i.e. PHP vs. Ruby, instead of frameworks. However, the analysis is interesting. As well as Brad Feld’s feedback on this article. Some of my thoughts: I won’t say it represents the “big picture”. Ohloh is [...]

MyBlogLog, the site that binds bloggers and their readers together. It’s basically a social networking site where you can create profiles, edit contacts, etc. What’s unique is its integration with Javascript based traffic logger, which enables bloggers or webmasters to see which MyBlogLog member is visiting his/her site. These statistics then enables forming of communities, [...]

Instead of going to work like most people do on Mondays, I took a day of leave and skipped work yesterday. Vivian’s ultrasound scan — yeah, that’s much more exciting.

Via AWS Blog, zBox is a PowerPC-based NAS box that automatically backs up itself to Amazon S3, so that you have the short latency advantage of LAN storage, and redundancy of online storage at the same time. They can even detect degrading disk drives and send you a new one preemptively. After several disk drive [...]

Just noticed that I have not been blogging here for a while, besides relaying exciting news like the release of Internet Explorer 7. Anyway. Here’s some updates. Everyone took turns to get sick at home. Anna was sick two weeks ago. I was sick last week, and Vivian was sick this week (and is still [...]