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I went back to the office yesterday for half a day — not to work, but to pack stuff. We are moving office this Saturday, and as I am still in my annual leave, I will not be back until after the Easter. Last time we moved it was a month after Anna was born. [...]

ESV Daily Verse is now on Twitter — what a great use of hype of the year which I still have not figured out what is good for! If you add “esvdaily” as someone you want to “follow”, you’ll get daily verses on your Twitter update at around the same time everyday! Except Twitter can [...]

Joyent introduced Slingshot that provides offline support to Rails applications. Lack of off-line support has always been the Achilles’ heel of SaaS-based applications that serve through HTTP — at least it is one of the most frequently asked features at work! Slingshot provides (1) a container environment for running Rails applications on Windows and Mac [...]

We have decided to call her Elsie, which is a short-form of Elizabeth, which (according to always unreliable baby names websites) means “consecrated to God”. Welcome to the world! By the way, we are now back home…

Sunday, 18th of March, 2007, at around 12pm, at Randwick Hospital for Women. We went in at around 4:30am. Labour did not quite start until 10:30am. She popped out at 11:58am. Both Vivian and the still-unnamed baby girl are fine. Thanks to those who came and helped out baby-sitting Anna, who also came to this [...]

Coding Horror: The “Works On My Machine” certification program. All you need to do is check out the code, compile, run and check a specific execution path. It is fully certified if it works! I have just certified all code snippets that I have previously posted here! Now, don’t come and tell me that they [...]

Call it narcissism, but I have set up Google Blog Search to automatically email me IMMEDIATELY whenever the phrase “Scott Yang” has been mentioned in the blogosphere. However, it has also caught a few surprises recently. Around 2 months ago there was another Scott Yang who started blogging on Blogger/BlogSpot. Singaporean, and often posting photos [...]

The Age: Is computer science dead? Because things are more automated, and most tasks only require drag and click? It is like arguing mechanical engineering is dead because wheels have been invented — by no means! As mechanical engineering does not train you to just produce machines, computer science does not (and should not) train [...]

Office 2.0 Database, i.e. a directory of every Web 2.0 office applications under the sun, written by Ismael Ghalimi of IT Redux. Here is his own setup, which covers everything from bookmarking, calendar, contact, CRM, database, desktop, document manager, presentation, spreadsheet, word processor and more. Everything running inside your browser.

Anyone on Twitter? It is Evan Williams‘ (of Blogger and Odeo fame) latest creation, and is currently hosted on TextDrive‘s accelerators. They call it micro-blogging, where you can post plain text of up to 140 characters using either the web site, your phone via SMS (if you are in US), Google Talk, or its web [...]

SMH: Balance? Don’t ask an economist, by their economy columnist Ross Gittins. It is an interesting read on the problem of capitalist system — most of the time we are working way too hard for the sake of the economics. Actually, not for the name of the collective economic growth, but just individual pursuit of [...]

The content of this post actually came up around 2 weeks ago at the dining table with Vivian… First we have the Dan Brown‘s Da Vinci Code, where Jesus married to Mary Magdalene the “Holy Grail”, had kids before he was crucified on the cross, and Jesus’ descendants moved to France to form their own [...]

This forum post identified the problem, and while I have not get around to look at it, Filipe has provided the fix. So there you go — Permalink Redirect 0.6.3, now with category feed URL fixed. A while ago I have also fixed an issue with Gravatar Cache, when Gravatar2 was released. Gravatar2′s blue’ish logo [...]

Introduction Scenario Installing Vhost Tools Installing and Updating WordPress in Portage Installing, Removing and Updating WordPress in Virtual Hosts Mass Upgrading WordPress Installations Potential Issues Introduction I guess everyone has heard of the recent news on WordPress 2.1.2, which was hurried out of the door because the WP 2.1.1 tarball was somehow altered by a [...]