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Only a few months left! :O

April 14th, 2008 | Posted by Rick in Education | general | Personal | Random - (0 Comments)

Ok, today at college we were told we had until next Monday to hand in all outstanding work. No biggie…I’ve got a few bits to do, and am going in on Thursday to get them done.

It then dawned on me. I’ve got less than 6 months until I (hopefully) go to Uni. That sounds like quite a bit….until you look back 6 months and see it was only 6 months ago that I got my iPod Touch! I’m now in “Oh Shit” mode as I also realized that my college have yet to book some tests, and some work that we finished a year ago has STILL not been submitted!

On a plus note, I also found out that I can get a DDD grade, which is 360 UCAS points…the highest you can get! :D IF (and thats a BIG IF) I can get all this work done this week, and the 3 units this term all to Distinctions (which is easy, just time consuming), then I’ll end up being granted £2,500 towards Uni fees as a Scholarship! Me like that! Me like that veeery much! (*Cough* MacBookPro *Cough*). But seriously, that will be a great weight off my (and my parents) sholders…£3150 a year for Uni fees is a lot of money to pay. £650 is a much easier sum to pay, dont you think?

I’ll still get a student loan to help pay for books. In year 2 myself and a friend are gunnu see if we can get some people together and rent a house, so it can help pay my share of that too!

Anyway. I know this post has bugger all to do with web development and such, however I’m in a wierd mood…its crossed between excited, and shit scared. Oh, and tiredness….again :p

I’m beggining to like this!

February 23rd, 2008 | Posted by Rick in general | Personal - (0 Comments)

After my boredom session yesterday I ended up working on the new WebmasterStash layout which we are going to be using for several new features which I will discuss in a later post.

So far I’ve only finished the header and navigation bar as I was also taking the opportunity to put my new application, CSSEdit to use and I found it to be a great CSS editor. I’ve found quite a new CSS bits that I didn’t even know existed! Hats off to the CSSEdit Developers. I got the app as part of the great MacHeist bundle which came to a close in January.

Anyway, the point of this post. I today replaced the skin used on this site as you can probably see. I got a bit board of the last one! I’ve got a good 3 or 4 topics that I can think of to write about so I may just go ahead and do that! I am really starting to like blogging. I’m going to start expanding this blog to include additional subjects. Reading a blog about just me and my life could end up getting very boring, very quickly!

Anyway, expect some more regular posting from now, and feel free to comment on the new theme!

RegisterFly’s Back…Run!

February 21st, 2008 | Posted by Rick in Domaining | general | Pressing Issues | Tech News - (1 Comments)

A few weeks back, I was browsing the web and headed to RegisterFly.com to see if they had been wiped off the net yet (no such luck!). I was shocked when I found I was redirected to “RegFly.com” and even more shocked to see that they had removed the ICANN termination notice that was supposed to be kept visible indefinently.

I took this opportunity to browse around and ended up in a live chat conversation with Robert O’Neil, former GM of RegisterFly, now the apparent owner and CEO. Whats more disturbing is that it has now emerged that Kevin Medina is in joint ownership, however Robert denies any involvement with Kevin.

After snooping and reading around, it appears that RegisterFly’s back to reselling domains from TuCows, how many unfortunate people they have as customers is unknown, however it does seem that TuCows are supporting these scam artists. (more…)

Oh No’s where’s the site gone!

January 6th, 2008 | Posted by Rick in general | Project Updates | RikeMedia - (0 Comments)

Well as of today, RickyMills.com is no longer a place to show my skills and portfolio. Over the last year or so, I’ve become increasingly interested in becoming an entrepreneur. More specifically, a web entrepreneur. Now I hear you cry “But theres no such thing as a web entrepreneur”, and your right, officially there is no place for this job title. However its more of a generic term used to describe what one does. Let me explain.

A web entrepreneur is involved in creating, buying and investing in websites. These websites draw profit from various methods such as advertisements and user subscriptions. What many people dont understand is that there is more money in websites than in most “regular” jobs. I’ve decided that by the end of 2008 I want to be earning enough money to live off. I’ll explain my plans in my next post which outlines my 2008 goals.

So, RickyMills.com is now where I will be blogging about how I’m getting along as a self-employed entrepreneur. Myself and my business partner, Mike Barlow recently opened RikeMedia, which is our brand name which we operate our sites under. All our sites are listed on the RikeMedia website so be sure to take a look!

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