TWiT.tv: Jumping Monkey — “… parenting in the digital age, featuring lots of helpful links and advice, plus interviews with other geek parents, web site designers, and bloggers”. It is a new podcast from TWiT featuring Megan Morrone and Leo Laporte, and it sounds like an interesting one to listen to for the geeky parents.
Read/Write Web: Top 60 Web 2.0 Applications in Australia, or rather, top 60 web start ups by the Australians. Whether they are “Web 2.0” really depends on your definition. For example, why is a search engine indexing only Australian blogs considered “Web 2.0″? Don’t we already have search engines and indexers in Web 1.0? Or [...]
As Facebook has just been predicted as the largest social network on Internet, I think it would be a good time dusting off my Facebook account and check out what the hype is all about. Looks like it is still appealing to those who are in their 20’s, just like MySpace is appealing to the [...]
What time is it now? 12:30am at mid night! However it has been very hard to get to sleep because RTA is doing road work right outside my house right now. They are doing a new layer on Gardeners Road near the Chilean Cafe — and you know the noise involved. Let along all [...]
On the left hand side, we have multiple vulnerabilities with PHP release 5.2.1 or less. Remote attackers might be able to exploit these issues in PHP applications making use of the affected functions, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code, Denial of Service, execution of scripted contents in the context of the affected site, security [...]
Peter Beattie: “Brisbane is the place to be, Sydney knows that. We won the State of Origin and I think that Brisbane is the capital”. If State of Origin is the judging criteria for being the capital of Australia, then we’ll probably looking at changing capitals every year or two. Or at least Melbourne and [...]
Got to work this morning. Opened up my Outlook, and saw this email sent to me from Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, flagged with high importance. I am an optimist, so I see 293MB out of 488MB only a bit more than half-full — far away from “almost full”!
TechCrunch: Engadget Knocks $4 billion off Apple Market Cap on Bogus iPhone email. Verdict — someone is getting into serious trouble. Just a side note — it is actually not hard to understand why public companies do not like their employees blogging, especially when it is (1) not moderated (2) talking about work. While small [...]
Matt: WordPress 2.2 “Getz” has been released. Of course, “Getz” came from the Jazz musician Stan Getz. However the first thing that popped up in my head is actually this Hyundai’s little tinbox. So what do we have? WordPress Widgets — Never going to use it as I don’t even have a sidebar here. Full Atom support — [...]
Mark Pilgrim talked about his previous on patents at IBM, and felt ashamed to be in this patent-filing business. Finally, I reached the now-or-never moment with my manager. I considered quitting anyway. I considered my mortgage payment. I took stock of my personal finances. My mortgage payment won out. I sat down and did what they [...]
Playground is the personal weblog of Scott Yang, a Chinese-Australian Christian who works as a software developer in Sydney Australia.