Scott Yang's Playground

Via Meg’s post, Sydney OpenCoffee Meetup is an informal and regular meeting for people involved in, or want to be involved in “Startup Industry”. Date/Time: Thursday 3rd of May 2007, 8:30amLocation: Brew Cafe, 121 Harrington St, The Rocks, Sydney How is “Startup Industry” defined? From Wikipedia’s entry of Startup company: A startup company is a [...]

I have just committed a new version of Permalink Redirect plugin for WordPress into Subversion, and this one actually has some new features! Old Permalink Structure Redirect. I figured this detailed instruction is way too complicated. So if you have done the wrong thing, chosen a bad permalink structure when your WordPress blog was launched, [...]

Very first day back to work after a long 3 weeks paternity leave, and it is also the very first day visiting our new office at Martins Place, although my colleagues have already been here for a week. First impression: It is bigger! (The main reason why we moved.) It is brighter! (White theme all [...]

Matt Farina: Drupal for Churches. There is a series of podcast on how to use Drupal on church websites, and by just looking at the episode list it looks pretty interesting! I am downloading them now :) FOCUS website is still running on an old Drupal 4.7 code-base but I have not had anytime working [...]

Didn’t go to FOCUS church camp and had a borning stay-at-home Easter this weekend? Try this very addictive Desktop Tower Defence flash game. I’ve played for two days and here is my latest “maze” that finished the Medium/Normal mode. Going for the Hard mode now…

DomainTools: Wholesale price for .COM and .NET is going up, as $6.42 is the new wholesale price for these two TLD, recently issued by Verisign. We are expecting to see the price raises across all retailers and resellers later this year. Thanks to the monopoly! We are going to pay more for a piece of [...]

This photo was taken today 30 years ago in Taichung, Taiwan. Yum. Chocolate cake. Stuff happening today: Anna woke up at 6am, with — way too early for me! Elsie has been very grumpy today. Unsettled growth spurt? Went to Doyles at Watson’s Bay for lunch. Fish & chips takeway… And Domino’s Pizza for dinner [...]

Long story short. I am currently leasing an under-utilised Virtual Private Server (VPS) in Los Angeles. I have 5 free web hosting accounts to give to friends of this blog. Here are the specs: Lxadmin control panel running on Lighttpd (i.e. no .htaccess) 250Mb storage 5Gb monthly data transfer 4 MySQL database Hosting 2 domains [...]