Scott Yang's Playground

Saw this on Sydney Morning Herald yesterday — Google named Australia’s best place to work: After its outstandingly successful parent company topped a 100 Best Places To Work survey conducted by the US magazine Fortune, Google Australia has claimed the No.1 spot in a similar Australian poll. BRW, which conducted the study, said Google had [...]

What happened yesterday morning at 5:30am Anna called from her room that she wanted to go to the bathroom Got out of bed, went to her room, and then carried her all the way to bathroom for wee. Carried her all the way back to her room and put her to sleep. Back to my [...]

Via Simon. Here is my super-hero, created with The Hero Factory. No mention of what the knight is gifted at…

Just to preempt you that in case you have not seen me on MSN/Live Messenger for a while — I am still alive. Just that I decided that I would not use MSN Messenger any more. No. I’ve got lots of friends there — some I know in real life, and some are just acquaintance [...]

Here’s a picture of my Dell Latitude D630 when it boots up. The random freeze started around 2 days ago. Out of sudden the laptop will freeze, and left the screen with a blue’ish tint. A power cycle is required to get the computer back to work, and it happened a couple of times a [...]

Have to blog about dalziel’s Twitter status here: Go to WhitePages. Search for “magic shop” (without the quotes) under Queensland. And you get this: Not sure whether it’s deliberated at WhitePages/Sensis, but surely it’s funny.

Took two deliveries at work today for my belated Christmas pressies (that I actually have to pay for myself). First one — all the way from the United Kingdom: It’s Real World Haskell by Bryan O’Sullivan, Don Stewart, and John Goerzen. It was released in November 2008 by O’Reilly, which you can actually read the [...]

Last “working” day for me for 2008, as I will be taking 4 days off next week and resume “work” on the 5th of January. “Work” is in double quotation mark because it refers to only my office work during the day time at IRESS. I am pretty sure I’ll spend time with my websites. [...]

When all the Taiwanese guys from my ex-uni course mates married Hong Kong girls was statistically scary, here is something even more creepy. They all have girls! So. We had Anna and Elsie. Then G and F had a baby girl last year. The 3rd couple had their first baby girl this September. We just [...]

Alan and Jean are moving back to Hong Kong after college, and their bed will be temporarily stored at our place. Even though they live around 200 metres up the street, moving a queen size bed from a 4th floor apartment to my place across the road can still pose a challenge. Should we get [...]

Got an SMS this morning from Three, my current mobile phone provider. As a prepaid 3Skypephone user for the last 12 months, I often get SMS-spammed by them so I was a bit hesitated to open it up. It turns out to contain a great news! Mobile Internet is now available to you! Surf your [...]

Yesterday when we were in transit at the Hong Kong airport, Anna and Elsie were playing with the kids’ ride that simulates the cockpit of a commercial jet. There’s nothing real about the cockpit, but I guess it does not really matter as kids are happy with anything that resemble buttons and blink.

I am back to Sydney this morning after 2 weeks of so-called “holidays” in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Took the night flight from Hong Kong to Sydney and it wasn’t pretty with two tired children… Well. The trip is good. Visited family that I have not seen for a while. Met with some primary school [...]

Looking at Dow Jones and ASX this week was painful. It goes down, and down, and down like there is no tomorrow. Fortunately market is closed on weekends so people can take a breath — thinking about when it is going to end. It’s a bit like taking kids for a long flight. “Are we [...]

It’s going to be the week of catching up. Last Friday I went and picked up my primary school friend from air port, and brought him around Sydney Eastern suburbs on Saturday and Sunday. I have not seen him since migrating to Australia back in 1990 — which makes that 18 years. Neither have we [...]