Color Switcher
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A bilingual websites dedicated to bring you the information on Major League Baseball players from Japan.
Japanese language blog about Boston Red Sox.
My work as graphic designer/web designer.
Personal blog that I've been keeping since 2002.
I like to eat. And taking photo of it.
Author Archives: daigo
13-year-old girl dominating her little league in Florida (Twitter updates for July 25)
My twitter is full of late night post with rants and rave about Boston Red Sox (mostly rants, since they are not playing too well). Sox are out in West Coast for 10 game trip and so far they are 3 and 3 after 6games. They have lost 6 of last 10 since the All-Star [...]
Great read: Pandas and Lobsters
Found this article: Pandas and Lobsters: Why Google Cannot Build Social Applications…. It was linked from wired article, which I found through Pinyadda. The article accurately describes why I like those applications. I didn’t know terms like bacn (which is an email that you subscribed but don’t read, better than spam – I have lots [...]
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Tilt-Shift Video
From UNIQLO’s website, a miniature baseball practice I forgot from where, but I came across Japanese clothing company UNIQLO’s website, and it is really cool. It has bunch of time-lapse photography video from bunch of different (interesting and beautiful) parts of Japan. But they applied “Tilt-Shift” effect to them. Perhaps simple concept, but really well [...]
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WPS and Japanese soccer star Homare Sawa (Twitter updates for July 18)
Homare Sawa (right) with Aya Miyama (Image found through Google Image) Learn something new everyday. There is a Women’s Professional Soccer league and apparently Washington D.C.’s team Washington Freedom has Japanese Midfielder, Homare Sawa, playing for them. From Wikipedia Long considered Japan’s finest female footballer, she made her debut at age 12. IN 1993, at [...]
My favorite All-Star game image
Today is MLB ALl-Star game. My man Ichiro Suzuki have now made it to the All Star 10 years in the row. He is just amazing. I read somewhere that Ichiro and Jeter tandem have never lost a All-Star game. Anyway, here is my favorite image of all time, courtesy of whitehouse photography!
Really simple steps to make WordPress 3.0 into Japanese
This is right on WordPress’s Japanese langauge team’s home page, ja.wordpress.org, but I thought it would be good to hae it here since I did it a few time and I had to look it up everytime… Though it is a very simple 4 steps. Download two files, ja.mo and continents-cities-ja.mo from WordPress depository for [...]
Being cheap doesn’t always save money…
I bought Dell ST2310 23 Inch Full HD Widescreen Monitor for $169.00. It is a pretty good monitor and I have to say I got a great deal on it (Market value is supposedly $229.99). But, I am not happy with it. No matter how I set my color/balance and calibration (from System Preferences -> [...]
Twitter updates for July 11, 2010.
Injured Red Sox is mostly what I talked about this week. Almost entirely about baseball. Well, now you know what I have in my mind all the time… I am pretty simple and one-tracked…
Kenichi Zenimura, the Father of Japanese-American Baseball
Kenichi Zenimura is in between Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth, in 1927 Nisei Baseball Research Project has started its campain to nominate Kenichi Zenimura, the Father of Japanese American Baseball, for the National Baseball Hall of Fame Buck O’Neil Lifetime Achievement Award. (Press Reliese about nominations being accepted) Nominations for the award must be submitted [...]
Great tutorial on hide/show divs using jQuery