Scott Yang's Playground

Google’s probably the last update on Google Wave. It’s a bit sad, because Wave is primary a Sydney product, sad I have spent the last Google partners day looking at it. We even used it for one of the collaboration at work. I guess a technically superior product might still not be popular, if no [...]

Hacker News Poll — what is your religion? I actually found the religion-related threads on HN usually quite good comparing to sites like Whirlpool, where people would ridicule first before any discussion. Still, atheism/agnosticism are still the majority in the tech world/startup scene.

Python 2.7 has just been released, on Anna’s birthday :) it’s going to be the last 2.x release. Time to start picking on 3.x?

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 :)

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 :)

Last.fm radio announcement — international radio listeners will require paid subscription, at €3 per month (although you also get 30 track free trial). The only part of the world that can continue to get free streaming are United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Darn. That means no more free Internet music radio for me :( [...]

Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 released to the public as of this morning, thanks to Nick for notifying me. Much better if you are a developer that needs to support the IE platform, or want gimmicks such as web slices. Too bad the animated GIFs is still not working, which I think would probably break quite [...]

Undo Send — new in Gmail Labs, via Twitter. One feature that I wished that I have over the last 14 years of emailing. Back in the Thunderbird days, way too often press [Ctrl]-[Enter] instead of [Enter], which sent off an unfinished email. Too bad you only have 5 seconds to recall your mistakes.

HostingFu — EveryDNS Python API and Command Shell. A Python library I wrote to provide API access to EveryDNS, a free DNS hosting service. Very useful if you need to change IP address to a few dozen DNS records.

LowEndBox — Yes you can run 18 static sites on a 64MB VPS at VPSLink. Step by step commands included to get a plain vanilla net-install Debian 5 Lenny VPS with only 64MB RAM, to run WordPress.