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Sunday, January 1, 2012 12:00 AM: Happy New Year 2012!!

Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy New Year 2012!!

Oh yeah.. don't be stupid and drink and drive.

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Friday, December 23, 2011 2:37 PM: Wishing Everyone a Merry Christmas for 2011

Just wanted to take a moment to wish everyone a Merry Christmas!

Like many, I will be spending it with relatives and hope that everyone has safe travels during this season and manages to keep from getting sick during this time.

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Tuesday, December 13, 2011 5:18 PM: Blog Updated to WordPress 3.3 and Other Website Changes

WordPress 3.3 was just released and I've completed upgrading my blog. Nothing to it really. Just clicked the update button and it did the rest. Well, I did back-up the database and directory structure before starting the process.  I also had to do my usual code tweaks to vars.php and wp-login.php that I do with every upgrade.

They also updated the Twenty Eleven theme to version 1.3; however, since I am using a Child Theme, I lost none of my changes and after doing a file comparison it looks like nothing has changed within the files that my child theme is using, such as header.php.

I also added a GetGlue widget (to find these, go to the Widgets section of your account settings) to both my blog and main website, and updated the Twitter widgets on both as well. After adding the newer Twitter widgets I needed to adjust some of the CSS to allow for a wider side-bar and also widened the main content area of the blog's main page while I was at it. There was more empty space between the two than there needed to be. I also adjusted the appearance of the H3 header tag when used in the context of a post. It looks cool as a widget title in the side-bar but was getting lost in posts as it's smaller than the normal text. Anyway, it looks fine now:

H3 header tag In a post.

Here's the changes I made in my theme's style.css file to make these changes:

#content {
	/*	margin: 0 34% 0 7.6%; */
	margin: 0 34% 0 3.8%;
	/*	width: 58.4%; */
	width: 62.4%;
}
 
#primary {
	margin: 0 -29.4% 0 0;
}
 
#secondary {
	/*	margin-right: 7.6%; */
	margin-right: 3.8%;
	/*	width: 18.8%; */
	width: 25%;
}
 
.entry-content h3, .comment-content h3 {
   font-size: 100%;
   font-weight: bold;
}

Now I need to figure out how to get WordPress's post editor to look the same. But, I think I'm going to go play EverQuest II right now.

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Tuesday, December 6, 2011 6:09 PM: It Seems I've Become Addicted to GetGlue

As many have figured out by now, I've managed to get myself playing around with GetGlue. As the About page states: GetGlue is a leading social network for entertainment. Users check-in and share what they are watching, listening to and reading with friends; get fresh recommendations, exclusive stickers, discounts and other rewards from GetGlue partners.

I've been using it for awhile now and my profile is http://getglue.com/mrheadrick. It's kind of cheesy but it's fun and addictive (surprise.. I get addicted to things easily). You'll also notice to the right (if you're looking at my blog's main page and it's still there) a GetGlue widget that shows my latest check-ins. As you check into, like, or review items you unlock stickers. Some stickers are always available, such as the Ice Cream Superfan while others are only available for a limited time such as a TV special or while a movie is in the theaters. To date I have earned 220 stickers. At the moment, after every 20 stickers you've earned, they will mail physical copies to you. So far I have received 4 batches of GetGlue stickers. They are about 1.5 inches in diameter.

So far I've been pretty much on the up-and-up and only check into items that I am actually watching, listening to, eating (yes, you can check into food and drinks), or doing.  There seem to be some that just check into things to get the stickers as there's not enough hours in the day to watch all those shows LOL.

As of this moment, it has the ability to send updates to your Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr accounts and you can check which, if any, to update with each check-in. There is a GetGlue API that I'll hopefully be able to figure out at some point to allow my Winamp now-playing script to automatically check into artists with song title and album information. Doing it manually is somewhat of a chore LOL.

Anyway, check it out and you might get addicted to it like I have. I think the fact that it's unique and not trying to be another Facebook, like Google+, helps.

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Wednesday, November 23, 2011 5:22 AM: Happy Thanksgiving for 2011!

Wishing everyone a Happy (and safe) Thanksgiving for 2011! I'll be spending mine with the folks and really looking forward to all the great food and time spent with family!

If you happen to be thinking about deep-frying your turkey, you might want to watch a few tips from William Shatner to keep from burning your eyebrows off or your house down:

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Detailed Information

• Background: I was born on June 6, 1969 in Wichita Falls, TX, but grew-up in Edmond, OK, including going to Edmond High School there.

• Current Occupation: It's a secret.

  Before my present job, I was: a bank teller, Interned/Co-oped with IBM down in Southlake, TX at their Performance Evaluation Center programming Remote Terminal Emulators, and then worked for the State of Oklahoma in the Department of Vital Statistics (birth/death certificate stuff) for awhile, then spent 13 years working for Creative Labs, Inc starting out as a Technical Support Agent and ending up as a PC Technician/Help Desk Support in the IT Department.

• Current residence: Oklahoma City, OK. If you want to know where Oklahoma City is in Oklahoma, or if you want to see what other internet resources there are in Oklahoma, click Oklahoma. Here's another site for info about what's in Oklahoma City.

• Graduated May '92 with a Bachelor of Science in Computing and Information Sciences from Oklahoma State University.

• Hobbies: Computing and all that stuff, Music, Movies, Snow Skiing (it's been awhile since I've been :/ ), Chatting on the internet (generally while working on our website or programming), and goofing off.

• Radio Station I mostly listen to is the Classic Rock station KRXO 107.7 FM, followed by: KJ-103 and Rock 100.5 the KATT., all out of Oklahoma City, OK. I also listen to a fair amount of Internet Radio. The two I listen to the most are Club 977, the 80's Channel and Ravetrax (Breakbeat Trance House). I listen to and watch their live video streams using Winamp. Ravetrax rocks, I suggest you check 'em out! I also subscribe to XM Satellite Radio and my favorite stations there are: BPM (Dance, 81), The System (Dance, 82), The 80s (Decades, 8), Top Tracks (Rock, 46), Bluegrass Junction (Country, 14), Cinemagic (Pop & Hits, 27), Squizz - XL (Rock, 48), and XM Classics (Classical, 110)

• I have one sister, Jill, who got her PhD in Physical Chemistry, researching the atmospheric chemistry of alkylperoxy radicals (believe I got that right.. has to do with lasers, studying molecular behavior of various gases, CO₂ and Ozone among others).. at the University of Colorado She's now a Research Associate at the University of Kansas.

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