Scott Yang's Playground

Thanks to Andrew from Niphal who posted these $250 worth free advertising coupons for Facebook on OzBargain, I went and got some free credits, spent 3 minutes in Gimp doing up a 110×80 logo, created a campaign on Facebook Ads Manager and sat back to see the flood of traffic coming in. Actually the last [...]

Something weird happened to my 3 Skypephone today and I am not even sure whether it’s just my account, or a 3-wide software glitch. At around 5pm today I grabbed my phone and was trying to browse some news content. The phone is on roaming — which I wasn’t so surprised. At my place which [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 price [...]

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, which [...]

SMH: Clerical error exposes Google as anonymous eBay critic. Worse, it has not only revealed that it is Google who hides behind the mask criticising eBay’s latest policy on payment methods, meta data in the PDF file has also revealed that some Google employees used Microsoft Word to construct the document!! Well. Google, listen — [...]

Recently when I tried to upgrade my ASUS Eee PC from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04, it made a complete mess — 4GB internal drive is just not enough to hold all the applications, data + new packages for upgrade. So instead of trying to fix a borked Ubuntu installation, I tried to install Hardy Heron [...]

Via ReadWriteWeb: SocialHistory.js can detect what popular social networks your visitors have recently visited by (1) creating a small hiden iframe (2) populate the iframe with links to those social networks (3) check the colours of those links, as visited links will usually have a different colour. One of the most wicked hack I have [...]

I was watching Bourne Identity on DVD with Vivian this evening, and in the bonus feature section they interviewed someone who’s actually a veteran at CIA. In the interview he said that the marble walls of the lobby of the CIA Headquarters are actually inscribed with a passage from the Bible! It says And ye [...]