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Articles I liked: Friday, May 18, 2012

By daigo | Published: Friday, May 18, 2012

I’ve been posting links that I liked at my Posterous page at posterous.daigo.org. Here are the week worth of links:

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Portfolio updated

By daigo | Published: Wednesday, May 16, 2012

My portfiolio site was getting pretty old. It featured my flash work prominently and I haven’t open the Adobe Flash application in a while. I thought I was going to make my living as FLash expert for a while there… Time changes.

Anyway, I finally got off my lazy bum and updated it. I used this awesome theme called Aurelius and it is awesome.

Let me know what you think.

daigofujiwara.com

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WTF #RedSox, SRSLY? and what I tweeted: From May 5-11, ’12

By daigo | Published: Saturday, May 12, 2012

Testing to see if I can embed Photosynth panorama on this page. It require Silverlight, though.

As for my tweets, those are tough times. Red Sox lost 8 of 9 games, against not very good teams… to sum up my tweets:

WTF #RedSox, SRSLY?

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I been tweeting nonsense since May 19, 2007 (almost 5 years ago, can you believe that?). I put weekly digests of my tweets on my blog, so that I can search for it quicker using my blog’s search function. I tweet awfully a lot about baseball (I am a Red Sox fan), but if you are interested, please follow me at @DaigoFuji. Here are my tweets:
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A rule of drop shadow in CSS

By daigo | Published: Friday, May 11, 2012

One of the coolest thing about CSS3 is text-shadow property. Good tutorial here.

Syntax:text-shadow: h-shadow v-shadow blur color;

Here are couple of things that I found using it over and over.

For light background color with darker text, put a sharp white right below for engraved look.

text-shadow: 0px 1px 0px #fff;

Keep your eye on the ball

For dark background with white text
You want hard black text 1px above to give it a pressed in feel.

text-shadow: 0px -1px 0px #000;

Keep your eye on the ball

Very sublte, 1px blur. (On light background color. Not white.)

text-shadow: 0px 1px 1px #999;

Keep your eye on the ball

For buttons etc, make white text pop by glowing darker color around the text:

text-shadow: 0px 0px 3px #000

Keep your eye on the ball

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Sellout streaks, Fenway PA announcer, and articles I liked: Friday, May 11, 2012

By daigo | Published: Friday, May 11, 2012

My friend Shannon had last year’s playoff tickets… which, of course, he didn’t get to use…

Good article in the Boston Globe about Red Sox’s (non-)sellout streak.

The Red Sox are literally “giving away” the tickets.

At Fenway, a Globe correspondent was assigned to buy the last tickets sold for the game and determine whether additional tickets remained available. He began at the general ticket office on Yawkey Way as the game started at 7:10 p.m. There, he was directed to Gate E on Lansdowne Street, where the Sox make several hundred tickets available on the day of each game.

The correspondent said he wanted to buy as many as six tickets but needed to wait until the last minute to see how many of his friends would arrive. He was the last person to consult the clerk at Gate E before it closed and was told there would still be tickets available at Gate A, which would remain open until the seventh or eighth inning.

At Gate A, he was told sales would end at 9 p.m. At that time, he asked for a pair of tickets and was given adjacent seats in the infield grandstand section 15, row 13. He tried repeatedly to pay, but was told to take the tickets for free.

“We try to take care of our loyal customers,’’ Bumgarner said.

The correspondent saw the window clerk give away four more tickets moments after he received his. He then checked with the clerk just before the booth closed at 9:35 p.m. and was told that tickets remained unsold.

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Red Sox PA announcer since 2003, Carl Beane, who’s deep voice announcing “Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to Fenway Park” has passed away. A very nice story by Gordon Edes of ESPN Boston and also very personal note from WEEI.com’s Mike Petraglia. I did not talk to him, but saw him every time I was lucky enough to go to the press box at Fenway. He was ALWAYS there, how early or how late. Reading about him, now I understand, he really really loved his job. Rest in peace.

I’ve been posting links that I liked at my Posterous page at posterous.daigo.org. Here are the week worth of links:

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Good bye, Oliver

By daigo | Published: Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Oliver, a set on Flickr.

Rest In Peace, Oliver Quinlan-Fujiwara. He came to our house in June 3, 2003. We didn’t know how old he was, guesstimated around 4 or 5 years, as he was a Sato, from Save a Sato program. He lived with us for 9 years. Had to say good bye to him on April 27, 2012. We love you, Oliver. Your dad, mum, bro and sis.

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Mostly (actually all) Red Sox tweets. (What I tweeted: Apr 28-May 4)

By daigo | Published: Saturday, May 5, 2012

Following 64 tweets from me this week was ALL Red Sox/Baseball related. To be specific, one tweet about Hideki Matsui signing with the Rays, but rest are all Red Sox. I guess now you know what is on my mind…. (as if you didn’t before) But WHY CAN’T THEY WIN AT HOME!?

This photo tells all. Dustin Pedroia after striking out in the 15th inning. Photo by my colleague and a friend MATTHEW J. LEE/GLOBE STAFF in Monday’s paper.

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I been tweeting nonsense since May 19, 2007 (ALmost 5 years, can you believe that?). I put weekly digests of my tweets on my blog, so that I can search for it quicker using my blog’s search function. I tweet awfully a lot about baseball (I am a Red Sox fan), but if you are interested, please follow me at @DaigoFuji. Here are my tweets:
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Haru Matsuri and articles I liked: Friday, May 4, 2012

By daigo | Published: Friday, May 4, 2012

Haru Matsuri in Copely Square was a huge success. Congrats to JAGB, Japan Society and all paries involved. Photo gallery on Boston.com. Hope this will grow into an annual event! An organizer told me they were only expecting around 2,000 people but apparently people 5 time more than their estimate showed up.

I’ve been posting links that I liked at my Posterous page at posterous.daigo.org. Here are the week worth of links:

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Red Sox collapse, Darvish vs Kuroda, and Sox goes on a tear. (what I tweeted: From Apr 21-27)

By daigo | Published: Saturday, April 28, 2012

That was a bad night.

Red Sox bullpen had a melt down last Saturday. I didn’t tweet about it. I thought about it and decided to only tweet “no comment.”

Then Yu Darvish and Hiroki Kuroda faced each other. That was exciting. I blogged about it over in blog.japaneseballplayers.com.

Then the Red Sox went completely on a tear and won 6 in a row, to bring back to .500 record.

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I been tweeting nonsense since May 19, 2007 (over 4 years, can you believe that?). I put weekly digests of my tweets on my blog, so that I can search for it quicker using my blog’s search function. I tweet awfully a lot about baseball (I am a Red Sox fan), but if you are interested, please follow me at @DaigoFuji. Here are my tweets:
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Spring Festival and articles I liked: Friday, April 27, 2012

By daigo | Published: Friday, April 27, 2012

First annual spring festval in Boston is coming up.

I’ve been posting links that I liked at my Posterous page at posterous.daigo.org. Here are the week worth of links:

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