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Tags: tennis sports RCA Tennis Tournament Semi-Final at Indy
Never got a chance to see James Blake play, although he hasn't been winning many tournaments as of late, it was always exciting to see his game on TV especially with his powerful groundstrokes.
It just so happens by luck that the RCA tournament semi-final ticket I got featured him on the match pitted against a little know American player Sam Querrey. My luck was pretty bad initially as I: first, left Bloomington a little late, second, got lost in the Indy downtown area before finally making it into the stadium 1/2 hour into the match.
By then, one set already elapsed with Querrey taking the first set 7-6. The game was exciting to watch as Querrey was just simply relentless with dropping serve bombs one after another, ranging from 125 to 135 mph whacks. The crowd was overwhelmingly for Blake with pockets of encouragement shouts for Querrey, yet that didn't help much :(, James felt a little out of his elements as he was playing, but for my money's worth (plus arriving late), it was great to see the next two sets both going to tie-breakers with Querrey tasting victory at the end. The score standing at 7-6, 6-7, 7-6 to Querrey.
It was an afternoon well spent watching some great tennis!
Tags: actionscript programming technical flash flex Flex/Actionscript CSS Percentage Height & Width
Ran into this particular issue several times as I was working on a little Flex Video Player app. Within the mx tag you can specify height and width of components as a percentage number that includes the % sign.
But if you end exporting some of the styles you apply to an external CSS page, then you can't specify style spec like:
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
Nor can you specify as such:
percentageHeight: 100%;
percentageWidth: 100%;
Although mx tags allow you to specify height and width in px or % format, the CSS spec is a little more picky unfortunately. So here's the correct syntax that will save you lot of headache I suppose:
percentageHeight: 100;percentageWidth: 100;
This'll be recurring problem for me from time to time for sure. So I should etch this into this blog for sure.
Tags: auto personal My Rabbit Reaches the 1000 milestone
This time around I'll definitely be putting on a more concerted effort to write my blog on a daily basis. Anyhoo, I thought this would be worthy of a blog post as my new rabbit reaches its 1000 mile mark. Wassup up doc?
Tags: personal Ruminations and Ramblings About Nothing Really
A lot of questions in life remains unanswered, which is fine really. If there isn't any mystery surrounding the dimensions we live in, it really would be quite a spoiler.
As it turns out, it's been about a couple of months or so since I have finally got to live up to this one great wish I had ever since I started college: to live in a quiet place all by myself. Nobody to answer to. Nobody to feel considerate towards. Nobody having to deal with me. Do whatever it is that fancies me at that very momemnt. As I delightfully jumped into this phase of life, I wasn't quite prepared for what others have warned me about: Loneliness sank in faster than I could've said "bliss at last".
I am not looking at this as some regrettable course of action, on the contrary I should feel thankful for being given this opportunity as I don't see this lasting forever. I suppose I should be using my time to self-reflect, love myself--whatever that means, and there goes my cynical self that simply couldn't resist to burst through the seams. Apparently this is supposed to help me find myself, again still don't know what that would or could amount to. I don't do meditation nor do I affirm to the existence of an anthropomorphic God, what possible course of action do I have that help me preoccupy this vacuum I am traveling through at this point?
Find something that I find interesting one would say and that usually brings back to feeling like the free time that I have at hand would be best served learning more about my profession. Aarrgh!! I don't discount myself as not wanting to be a life-long learning or a thinking being, yet it just feels so good to be doing nothing sometimes, absolutely nothing for a change. This really is where my paradox sets in, it feels good to do nothing (ala Office Space) and yet this is where loneliness foots me with one heck of a bill.
I suppose I should be writing more to let my thoughts out of my head. It felt like it's been jammed in there for too long and perhaps needed an outlet and free up some space in my head. As if 80% of unused brain space isn't enough real estate for the grandiose requirements of my thoughts. And I never thought I'd be doing this of all the things: reading a Harry Potter book. I just imagine it from the perspective of what the movie would look like in production to get through the utter banality of the literature I am reading. It passes the time, it helps create these vivid images in the head which sort of sweeps me off to some zone that I feel I can be really comfortable in, brings a lot of nostalgic feelings to the foreground I must say ... remembering the pre-college years.
I'll put a stop to this now as the ramblings I am sure one would find no coherence in. Lastly though, have come to a realization that people have their own self-interests in mind more than I'd thought was possible. Some do not hesitate to leave you in the dusts when they find a better deal elsewhere. Not saying this in any vengeful tone whatsoever, I suppose I really could use this as yet another lesson in life and hopefully as a blessing in disguise. Although, I wish I could put brakes on these inadvertent lessons of life as there seems to be too many of them to go through as they are piled up on my desk.
Tags: entertainment apple movies PC or Mac?? Take your pick...
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