Scott Yang's Playground

Saw this quote from programming.reddit yesterday. Python’s a drop-in replacement for BASIC in the sense that Optimus Prime is a drop-in replacement for a truck. Best quote so far this week.

Read this story on Slashdot. “Half the Mac OS X boxes in the world (confirmed on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and 10.5 Leopard) can be rooted through AppleScript: osascript -e 'tell app "ARDAgent" to do shell script "whoami"'; Works for normal users and admins, provided the normal user wasn’t switched to via fast user switching. Secure? I [...]

Reddit is about one of few tech-related social news sites that I read regularly (especially programming.reddit.com). The others are Slashdot and Hacker News. The big news is — they have gone Open Source! Since reddit’s beginning, we have stood on the shoulders of giants in the open source world. Every library, tool and platform we [...]

At the City Bible Forum today, Ray Galea gave a talk from the kingly Psalm, Psalm 2, where the enemies of God plotted opposition against God’s annointed king. Ray quoted a song from U2, When Love Comes to Town. I was there when they crucified my LordI held the scabbard when the soldier drew his swordI [...]

Just downloaded it. 6.99MB later for Win32 version for UK English. Argh! The build number for Gecko is exactly the same as Release Candidate 2 which I have been using for a few weeks now. Around 5.3% of visitor to this blog so far this month has been Firefox 3 users so I guess it is [...]

Got a new keyboard at work. Why am I blogging about an old-style looking beige coloured keyboard? It has only 104 keys — no media keys, no volume knob, no wireless, no USB hub, no card reader, no ergonomic layout — not even palm rest! It’s a Unicomp SpaceSaver with a USB plug. It is a [...]

I have not been twittering much recently because of one and only one reason. That has been on my status page for a few weeks now and I have only been twittering via IM (routing it through my own Jabber server). That sucks. While they have been triumphing the fact they have made it through WWDC, [...]

Apparently the latest iPhone 3G that was just been announced by Apple, will only be available at either Vodafone or Optus when it comes out on 11 July, i.e. no Telstra nor Three. I won’t mind paying $210 up front for this new phone with 3G, HSPA, GPS, WiFi, etc — if its USD$199 [...]

Lazy Saturday morning. Checked my email at around 11am, and got an email from Elsie Lam with a catching subject: Picture of you in the newspaper!!. Ouch — is that in the crime section?! Hopefully not. No chance in Sports nor in the gossip section either, I think. Then Elsie passed me this link, [...]