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Archive for 2005

JavaScript links and Fink, Ruby on Rails etc…

Monday, December 12th, 2005

I bought DOM Scripting book by Jeremy Keith at the Web Design World Boston… Hee are some links: Getting Focused - and a Quick JavaScript Lesson @ CFDJ
w3schools’ Javascript DOM example
I have just started to play with fink. Installation looks fairly simple. Download the .dmg disk image (0.8.0 is for tiger, for Panther, use […]

Pat Morita, and Only the Brave

Thursday, December 1st, 2005

I didn’t grow up watching Happy Days like my wife, and barely remember Karate Kid, but of course I know who Matsuo ‘Arnold’ Takahashi is and who could forget who Mr. Kesuke Miyagi is… Noriyuki “Pat” Morita just passed away on thanksgiving day. played a role in more than 100 films, and was one of […]

Make History Tuesday: Vote for Sam Yoon

Monday, November 7th, 2005

Tomorrow is the election day. And you should vote for Sam Yoon for one of the Boston City Council At-Large seats, and here is my version of why. You can expect him to make the right decisions for Boston Public Schools with his public school teaching experience. As a housing advocate at Asian Community Development […]

Asian GM to replace Theo? Bring it on!

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005

I’ve been writing about this whole Theo fiasco in Japanese at my other blog (babelfish translation here), but in today’s Herald piece, Sox GM race up for grabs, Kim Ng’s name (pronounced “ing”) was floated among the four possible up-and-coming GM candidate. I’ve written about her before a couple of times, but in a nut […]

Closing <img />

Tuesday, October 25th, 2005

In BB Edit, use this regex to find image tags (<img >) and close it. (<img />)
Serch for: <img ([^>]*)> and replace it with <img \1/>
Reference: BBEdit Grep Tutorial

The endless Yasukuni debate

Sunday, October 23rd, 2005

I know its been a week, but I needed to write about Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s visit to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine. It was his fifth visits since taking office in April 2001, there by keeping his promise to visit the shrine every year.
This time, unlike the previous visits, he was not as dressed […]

Hirotoshi Ishii

Wednesday, October 19th, 2005

Here is my little contribution to Boston sports scene, it is based on an article in Sports Nippon. (BabelFish translation, pretty funny: he desires measure[should be ‘major’] transfer) Will Hirotoshi Ishii of Yakult Swallows come to the Red Sox 2006? Maybe. I bet you that he WILL come to Major, and I hope its the […]

The reason I won’t (can’t) go back to Japan

Sunday, October 16th, 2005

Reading an article called Getting ‘yuusu’ lingo ‘peki-peki’ a real chore for adults at “Wai Wai” on Mainichi Online, I felt completely out of it. I knew none of those shortened teens lingo.
M4 — not a magnitude 4 earthquake, but an appointment to meet someone at 4 pm at McDonalds.
Now, isn’t that a […]

Harry Potter’s Asian girlfriend

Monday, October 10th, 2005

Not only she dates Harry Potter, she is a wizard (or is it th e other way around?). Her name is Cho Chang, and will be played by Katie Leung in the upcoming Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (4th of the Harry Potter series.) This is good, This is arguably the biggest Asian […]

A perfect stranger

Thursday, October 6th, 2005

I just read a book called Dinner with a Perfect Stranger, and it was great. The book is very easy to read, a page turner. The main character, Nick, gets a invitation to have dinner with “Jesus of Nazareth.” he thinks its a prank,and skeptical, but goes to meet him anyway. I like reading book […]