Scott Yang's Playground

How to shoot yourself in the foot in any programming language. Very funny (if you happen to acquire different programming languages on your belt). For example, “Perl — You shoot yourself in the foot, but nobody can understand how you did it. Six months later, neither can you.”, and “Python — You try to shoot [...]

Thanks to Scott Adams for gracing us with such an insightful remark from Dilbert: “Success is the happy feeling you get between the time you do something and the time you tell a woman what you did.” Feel free to substitude “woman” with XYZ who always seems to always have something negative to say when [...]

Bruce Schneier Facts Database, along the line of Chuch Norris Facts. For example, “Bruce Schneier eats 0s and 1s for breakfast. And snacks on pi.” Being a Schneier fan myself, it is very funny indeed. Via ELER.

Via Kenneth Carlson, “Why The Mona Lisa is Smiling”, appears on Investors Business Daily editorial cartoons dated May 19, 2006. Well, that pretty much explains it. I think she should probably be laughing out loud instead. On a related note, is there anyone other than me myself that have not watched the movie nor read [...]

為什麼修電腦永遠比不上看電影 — 特別是給在 CSE 學習的同學，從邏輯的角度來分析，為什麼光是會修電腦、裝網路、重灌暈倒叉P 是不夠的。不管你修了幾台，重灌幾次都是一樣的。

Saw this on SMH this morning. I was shocked — they have finally got it right. Something that is historically true over the past 2,000 years. Here’s the link. :)

And that’s what made this Blondie & Dagwood comic strip so funny. At the same time it is also the same dilemma that troubles many on-line diarists (let’s not call them “bloggers”), who always need to choose between “to write” or “not to write”.

If you are like me, who always forgot all the different configuration of RAID (Redundant array of independent/inexpensive disks), the following illustration should be very useful. It was sent to me at work. Original author unknown.

The fast way to hold a shirt, sent to me by GD. The instruction is in Japanese though — can someone translate? It took a few times to see how it actually worked, and obviously need quite a bit of practise. Only worked with shirts with very short sleeves though, Vivian said, as she tested [...]

Photo of crashed application running on Linux on an Airbus 330 in the mid air. Yeah, that was the cute Tux in the photo. However I think I will freak out if I see Linux bootstrapping inside my in-flight entertainment centre.