Scott Yang's Playground

Went to Dominic Steele’s talk on Matthews 7 at City Bible Forum on Wednesday. Dominic told a joke on residential colleges at UNSW, which I had not heard of before. Here it goes: Shalom College. Run by the Jews. No pork. New College. Run by the Anglicans. No beer. Warrane College. Run by the Catholics. No girls. Kensington Colleges. [...]

最近這幾天常常在我的　Gmail 帳號下收到奇奇怪怪的電郵，而且還是繁體中文的。大部分的時間我都把它們直接丟往垃圾筒裡，但今天心血來潮就打開了幾封看看裡面賣的到底是什麼葯。 結果發現這幾封都是寄錯地址的！我的 Gmail 地址是 scott.yang at gmail dot com，所以我懷疑這幾封信真正的收信人也叫 Scott。信裡的對收信人的稱呼為「楊大哥」！而他的責任是－為一個婚禮做主持人！基本上這些信都是有關那婚禮的，而寄信人分別為某某婚姻顧問，與一家台北上市公司的總經理！！！ 由此可證寄電郵前一定要把地址打對，不然很有可能被無聊人士貼在他的部落格上。 還好那收信的楊大哥只是在 CC 裡面，然後他的另一個郵址也在 CC 裡，所以他應該沒有漏失任何郵件…

How many pairs of hinges does your laptop need? You know what a hinge on the laptop is? Yup, that thing which holds the LCD screen from the base of your laptop computers. Usually you just need one pair for each computer. Then why is someone trying to sell 5 pairs on eBay? Probably because [...]

6:45pm. Elizabeth Street outside Martin Place. Waiting for bus to take me back home. On my right is a young Asian girl in her twenties, talking to her mobile phone in fluent English. On my left is a slightly order Caucasian bloke in his early thirties, talking to his mobile phone in fluent Mandarin. Formal was [...]

Guido van Rossum: Python 3000 Status: A schedule was first published around a year ago; we were aiming for a first 3.0 alpha release by the end of the first half of 2007, with a final 3.0 release a year later. (Python 3.0 will be the version when it is released; “Python 3000″ or “Py3k” is [...]

I was wondering why the font rendering on Safari for Windows looks so different. Actually I’ve used a Mac for the last 4 years, but seeing Apple’s anti-aliasing rendering engine working on Windows does feel a little bit strange. Joel Spolsky outlined the differences between two camps: Apple generally believes that the goal of the algorithm [...]

Yup. You all heard that? Safari, the default web browser on Mac, now also has a Windows version ready to be downloaded. It is a 8MB download without the Quicktime runtime, but still contains useless attachments like Bonjour and Apple software updater, although these are optional and you don’t need to install them. Anyway, the [...]

Google: You can now download the latest 2000 items from Google Reader for offline reading, thanks to Google Gears. Having worked on a web-based application for the last 6 years, I have to say that off-line support is one single most requested feature which means there is still a huge desktop/offline market. An online/offline [...]

Mezzoblue: PHP files hosted on DreamHost modified to include spammy links, and apparently around 3,500 FTP accounts have been compromised on DreamHost. I guess for the friends who are also hosting on DreamHost — check your files and make sure they are still intact. Update: response on DreamHost Status blog.

TechCrunch: Movable Type 4.0 to be open sourced with MySQL-like dual license, and Anil confirmed that it is going to be GPL. Congratulation to SixApart! I felt they somehow “lost it” back in 2004 when Movable Type 3 was released with a new license terms. What follows was a mass migration, with open source [...]