Scott Yang's Playground

Min Jun Kim, a seasoned blogger, talked about different stages of being an on-line journalist. I’ve only be in temporary hiatus once or twice – so I guess I am only somewhere in the middle of the life cycle.

List of bloggers from University Chinese Church on Xanga, 26 from the last count. Oh well, ESF on Friendster, Pelita on World of Warcraft (?), and now our bros and sis from UCC are all blogging away on Xanga…

English Standard Version Bible is having its own blog site. Apparently they are powered by WordPress as well. And now they are giving their Bible away for those who link to them int their blogroll.

One thing I really liked about Yahoo! 360 (ask me for an invite if you have not got one) is its implementation of access control. You can choose from multiple level of privacy for different sections of your Yahoo! 360. For example, you might want everyone on 360 to see your real name, restrict your [...]

Jeremy Zawodny compares company’s policy/view point on employee blogging between Yahoo and Google, after the Mark Jen incident, where he was fired by Google for blogging about work. Suddenly, Yahoo is the good guy here whereas Google is the villian. And since not everyone is working at Y!, it might be good idea to keep [...]

Evangelical Blog Award 2005 voted by readers of Evangelical Underground. Quite interesting to read through them all.

Via Slashdot, that Microsoft has launched the beta version of its own blog hosting service – MSN Spaces. I quickly went and sign up a site (Microsoft Passport login required), and here it is: Scott’s Space on MSN After about 5 minutes of playing around, here’s some unsorted quick comments in point form. Doesn’t really [...]

Comment authentication via random text on image as a WordPress plugin. Looks cool. However, it is strongly discriminating against us text-mode browser users!

For the last 3 to 4 weeks, Mandarin Bible Fellowship worked through 1 Corinthians 8-10 in our Sunday Bible studies. The main theme is pretty obvious. Gospel is Paul’s agenda as he has been appointed as the Apostle to the Gentiles (1 Corinthians 9:17 “… entrusted with a stewardship”). His will is to save some [...]

24 ways to generate income from your blog/website by John Rhodes. Pretty comprehensive list, from banner advertises, to donations, to provide consulting services, etc. Not that useful to me at the moment, but just thought some of you might be interested.

I have started the Friday Random Quickies on this weblog nearly one year ago, but has been getting slack over the past few weeks. At the end I am just too lazy to tidy up one big long post to flush out all the junk I’ve collected through out the week. And it pretty much [...]

Yeah! Friday. I am going home in a minute, and can forget about work for two days. FridayFive for this week is not out yet, so I might as well do the previous week’s one, which is work related. What do you do for a living?Writing software. What do you like most about your job?Non-interactive. [...]

A few links from this week.

Eeeks. Aarrgghh!! It has been 6 hours and the ADSL link is still not up. I got an SMS from SwiftDSL at close to 6 PM today, saying that the authentication at Telstra is having problem, and my ADSL link has been down since. I think I will be moving back to Internode after static [...]

Some links for boring Friday. Before that, here’s my attempt on Friday Five this week. I can foresee a busy weekend incoming. Too many things to do… What was the last song you heard?Sweet Child O’ Mine of GnR What were the last two movies you saw?Haven’t seen any movie this year!!! Last two I’ve [...]