Scott Yang's Playground

It is weird when you company have just bought out your biggest competitor. Just a few months ago we were still fighting for the same clients, doing data conversions for those who “defected” to us, and treat their office as “enemy territory”. Then last Friday they all came to our office for a chat, looked [...]

Saturday morning. Almost lunch time. Doing some vacuum cleaning. Two people knocked on the door — a Caucasian guy and an Asian lady. They had Watch Tower on their hands. Oh my. As I was busy changing Elsie‘s nappy, Vivian went and opened the door, told them that we are Protestant Christians, we are sure [...]

Wilson & Susana’s baby birth log — it is a boy! And his name is “Edmond”. Congratulation the Cheungs! We actually got a call in the morning on Saturday the 21st about the contraction and Vivian suspected that it was coming soon. Then it is a Sunday birth on the following day! Take care!

Adobe Systems announced plans to release source code for Flex as open source. The open source Flex SDK and documentation will be available under the Mozilla Public License (MPL). Probably under the pressure of Microsoft Silverlight? I have only played with Flex 2 and half years ago when we were evaluating various RIA technology, and [...]

How did you spend your ANZAC day? Last night I have built a new computer for Anna, and here it is:

Since we moved to the new office, there has been quite a few “improvements” happening in the kitchen area that brought quite a bit of distraction. First of all, a new coffee machine was installed last week. Yes, one of those where you click a button and out comes a cappuccino.

Via CaveMoney50, Alister Cameron wrote about Two WordPress Plugins You Don’t Need and Shouldn’t Use. Number 1 on the list: Permalink Redirect, closely followed by Matt’s No-WWW plugin. Actually, since release 0.7, Permalink Redirect can already redirect on hostname mismatches, which makes No-WWW obsolete. That means, my Permalink Redirect is the Number 1 WordPress Plugin [...]

Two brothers — one in Christ and one in blood. Two weddings. One is Tim and one is Tom, and on the same day!! Tim has just launched his RSVP site (Vivian is still asking, why “unsync?”), but we pretty much know that it is 30th of June for a few months already. Then my [...]

Thunderbird 2 has just been released. There are quite a lot of new features in this new release. Most useful to me must have been message tags, i.e. you press 1 to mark the mail as important, 2 to mark it as work related, etc. It is a feature that has been available on Outlook [...]

Last week, Mark from Weblog Tool Collection posted his stand on sponsored themes, and asked all sponsored themes to disclose their sponsorship. A few days later Matthew Mullenweg also outlined the social and ethical issues with sponsored themes, and vote for removing sponsored themes from WordPress.org. These are the WordPress themes developed by web designers, [...]