Scott Yang's Playground

Last night Vivian and I managed to dine at Cha Cha Japanese Restaurant near Oasis on the Gold Coast high way. Food: Teppanyaki chicken + rice ($12.80), Tempura udon ($11.80), fried tofu ($6.80), Japanese green tea ($2.70). We actually meant to go to Cha Cha last time when we were on the Gold Coast (late [...]

Over the last week I have moved FOCUSER.net (yes the good ol site that does not seem to be used by anyone any more) and all my personal sites from VPSLink to Jumba‘s Virtuozzo VPS. Because It is Australian (servers in Sydney in my case), whereas VPSLink is in US Believe it or not, Jumba [...]

Android Australia: Vodafone announces Google Nexus One. It is finally officially coming to Australia via Vodafone and its UK arm. Yes, a few days after I bought mine. Such an awesome phone ONLY IF Froyo is releasing tonight :)

Via Hacker News. Fred Wilson talked about Being Present, because “you have about ten to twelve years to connect with your kids and then they turn into teenagers…” That’s a message to the hard working entrepreneur-parents out there. In fact working 9-5 can feel missing out, let along getting back home at almost 8pm each [...]

Just ran this on my various blogs: $ svn switch http://core.svn.wordpress.org/tags/3.0 And navigate to the Admin pages of the blog. Done — WordPress upgraded to the latest and the greatest within seconds. Would be faster if something like git is used instead of subversion (which I found slower and slower than git or hg), but [...]

SMH/Drive: East beats West when it comes to road manners and safety. Looks like Asians are more likely to be safe drivers than caucasians. Again, that’s generally speaking base on statistics, and our unbelieves usually come from some special cases :)

It arrived today and I’ve switched. From my Nokia E71 of 18 months to this. 1GHz Snapdragon processor. WSVGA AMOLED display. 512MB memory + 4GB SD card. Android 2.1. First impression from Anna when I went home. “Wow iPhone!” (arrghhh!) So far so good. Installed a few apps to get the VoIP working. I do [...]

Just tweet about my recent bad experience with VPSLink’s migration from Seattle to Boston (which this blog is hosted on), and noticed that Twitter is not displaying my number of tweets correctly. Saying 828 there but I know very well that there are 3,200+ tweets there, as I ran a scheduled script that backs up [...]

For the past 12 months OzBargain has been running on a single Linode 720 at Linode, in their Fremont data centre. I thought it was pretty good for a Drupal website getting 5 million page views per month, especially renting that VPS is pretty much free to me :) Due to surge in traffic as [...]

The year so far has been hectic, and this blog has so far been neglected since mid last year. Indeed there has been quite a lot of things happening in life over the last 12 months. Moved back to Kennedy Street due to house renovation. Married for 10 years on 8 April 2010. Visited Google [...]