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My Work
A list of all the work I've done.
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About Me
It's really just a bunch of random facts :p One day I'll put up more I swear.
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Flickr
I've been keeping a photo journal since the middle of 2008. Mostly just random pics of daily things, which I post here every month.
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GitHub
My repository of code. It's really not much to look at, but I like to keep things as public and open source as possible.
One Versus Two Spaces After a Period
I really don’t get it, I haven’t used two spaces after a period since I was 16 and in a typing class, and that was only because I had to… It didn’t make sense then and doesn’t make sense now.
Honestly who really does this?
I realize I’m not the most trusted linguist in the world, but two spaces after a period?
Why?
It’s time for a change.
I just want to say that I am throughly disappointed with this graph below. I feel like I’m just not doing my job well enough here when I see this. Perhaps IE8 is going to be amazing, and lets be honest IE7 isn’t that bad, but if you’re on IE6 you’re about to get shut out of my design.
By the end of February I am going to strip all CSS from my site for IE6 [...] Read More
It’s For Everyone!
I heard a great little talk this morning about HOPE. At first I was a little skeptical about where it was going to go, but the guy talking was pretty much on the level and not in a cheesy way. I even laughed with out forcing it…
It’s always surprising to me that in general people are able to take a message and apply it to life regardless of the circumstances. At any rate one of [...] Read More
ecto Publishing
This is ecto which is a desktop publishing app for the mac which I think you’ll like to check out if you’re into having more control over you blog publishing. (not to mention the fact that if you’re like me you can’t stand having a publisher that tells you how to write your html)
I pretty sure I saw the copywrite say 2003-2009 so I get the feeling this one has been around for a [...] Read More
Bored with Time to Kill?
Applications > Utilities > TerminalType or copy/paste the following:
List of Games: type the followingls /usr/share/emacs/22.1/lisp/play
Start emacs: type the followingemacs
To Play a Game:
hold Esc + X (enables you to type a games name to play)
Play Tetris: type the followingtetris
Quit emacs:hold control, press X then C
To see a better example of what I’m talking about check this guy out. [...] Read More
10yrs of Communications
Recently one of my roommates has been having some phone issues, nothing to speak of, but it got me wondering about all My Old Phones and Pagers. I’ve had so many I can’t even think of them all, phones that is, I only had one pager…
So I thought I would put them here to look at so I’ll never for get what I used to have, thus I’ll be thank full for what I have. [...] Read More
Can you Say Awkward
Hello my Name is Randy Hicks and I don’t like to be put on the spot while also being filmed.
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30 yrs ago I was Born
Here are some totally random fact about 1979 that should put me perspective to You. Do I make you feel Old or Young?
Top10 Movies
Alien
Manhattan
Apocalypse Now
The Muppet Movie
The Worriors
Life of Brian
Breaking Way
The Jerk
Being There
Mad Max
Top10 Songs
My Sharona, The Knack
Bad Girls, Donna Summer
Le Freak, Chic
Da Ya Think I’m Sexy, Rod Stewart
Reunited, Peaches and Herb
I Will Survive, Gloria Gaynor
Hot Stuff, Donna Summer
Y.M.C.A., Village People
Ring My Bell, Anita Ward
Sad Eyes, Robert John
Nobel Prizes in Science
the supper freaking smart poeple
Chemistry: [...] Read More
Restart Your Computer
When was the last time you did this?How many times a week to you do this?
For those of you out there that know all the serious reason why this is important please tell everyone else your secrets!!! I’m a strong believer that it’s a common miss-understanding that computers were built to run for eternity with out ever having to Restart Your Computer.
For those of you that have the question of “How Offten Should I Restart [...] Read More
Some Well Known Blogging Resources
This evening I had a chance to meet up with a bunch of great people who are here in Franklin, TN for a Conference call recreate. We had a great time and it turns out most of them are bloggers. It made me want to meet more people that read or see twittering, so I thought I would share a few common resources for bloggers.
Here are a few well known resources that you should [...] Read More