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2025  14

November  1

DEI equals American Values

November 20, 2025 · 8 min · 1668 words · Christopher Hicks

October  2

Glowing review of “Evolution of Lua, continued”

October 22, 2025 · 4 min · 765 words · Christopher Hicks

Vocal Media is hiring for a Data Warehouse Engineer

October 8, 2025 · 1 min · 81 words · Christopher Hicks

September  3

Man in Finance in LEGO

September 28, 2025 · 3 min · 461 words · Christopher Hicks

DNSControl + CoreDNS Container Example - Announcement

September 12, 2025 · 3 min · 480 words · Christopher Hicks

How Rust Had to Save Python From Itself: The uv Revolution

September 4, 2025 · 4 min · 716 words · Christopher Hicks

August  1

John Schreiber passed on July 29th, 2025

August 22, 2025 · 1 min · 147 words · Christopher Hicks

June  2

Lorakeets at Busch Gardens Williamsburg

June 25, 2025 · 1 min · 63 words · Christopher Hicks

Charities that I Respect

June 13, 2025 · 3 min · 435 words · Christopher Hicks

May  2

Redis backslides into open source community

May 16, 2025 · 6 min · 1195 words · Christopher Hicks

Scheduled Send in Slack

May 2, 2025 · 5 min · 1059 words · Christopher Hicks

April  1

Lee Hall VA graffitied coal cars

April 25, 2025 · 1 min · 63 words · Christopher Hicks

March  1

Review of Microservices Pros and Cons

March 10, 2025 · 7 min · 1425 words · Christopher Hicks

February  1

Tubi Streamed Superbowl 2025

February 10, 2025 · 1 min · 169 words · Christopher Hicks

2024  8

September  2

Using just to speed development

September 29, 2024 · 2 min · 295 words · Christopher Hicks

The Onion is back in print!

September 9, 2024 · 2 min · 269 words · Christopher Hicks

July  4

Neckties of July 2024

July 31, 2024 · 2 min · 395 words · Christopher Hicks

Our First Youtube Short: Baby shark at bakery

July 22, 2024 · 1 min · 74 words · Christopher Hicks

Pool Rules

July 12, 2024 · 4 min · 842 words · Christopher Hicks

Chicks.net Site Relaunch

July 2, 2024 · 4 min · 651 words · Christopher Hicks

June  1

Tech Pro Grandpa Outwitted by Toddler

June 13, 2024 · 3 min · 537 words · Christopher Hicks

May  1

Canadian Petition That Games Must Remain Functional At EOL

May 10, 2024 · 1 min · 69 words · Christopher Hicks

2023  7

December  1

You could be the Director of Infastructure at Tubi.

December 1, 2023 · 1 min · 26 words · Christopher Hicks

October  1

The Banality of Genius

October 16, 2023 · 1 min · 102 words · Christopher Hicks

September  1

I’m the new Observability Lead at Tubi

September 2, 2023 · 1 min · 38 words · Christopher Hicks

July  3

Chicks on Community

July 24, 2023 · 6 min · 1103 words · Christopher Hicks

Tubi is competing with subscription services

July 21, 2023 · 1 min · 174 words · Christopher Hicks

Pismo Beach: First Visit

July 9, 2023 · 1 min · 70 words · Christopher Hicks

June  1

Creator of Clippy

June 11, 2023 · 1 min · 14 words · Christopher Hicks

2022  1

April  1

“LinkedIn is better on the app” is the subject of the email.

April 22, 2022 · 1 min · 99 words · Christopher Hicks

2020  1

November  1

Great coverage for McD Tech Labs

November 30, 2020 · 1 min · 51 words · Christopher Hicks

2018  3

October  1

Try Personal Capital.

October 24, 2018 · 1 min · 55 words · Christopher Hicks

July  1

It is funny that this happens a week before

July 20, 2018 · 1 min · 64 words · Christopher Hicks

February  1

Once again the forces for copyright have reduced the rights of normal people

February 16, 2018 · 1 min · 157 words · Christopher Hicks

2017  10

December  2

Steam preferences set to Linux

December 9, 2017 · 1 min · 69 words · Christopher Hicks

Wow, that’s too bad.

December 2, 2017 · 1 min · 15 words · Christopher Hicks

September  1

Higher tax rates for the rich could actually make the world a better place.

September 5, 2017 · 1 min · 49 words · Christopher Hicks

August  1

To protect our government we should insist on a preference for open source so…

August 3, 2017 · 1 min · 62 words · Christopher Hicks

April  1

I usually don’t have much sympathy for Microsoft, but this is so classic …

April 19, 2017 · 1 min · 36 words · Christopher Hicks

March  1

This is the future of computer security. I hope you’ve got flexibility a…

March 31, 2017 · 1 min · 179 words · Christopher Hicks

January  4

The solution to your Debian problems is to completely disable ipv6. This is …

January 15, 2017 · 1 min · 122 words · Christopher Hicks

Cloudflare: thanks for keeping up the good fight

January 11, 2017 · 1 min · 26 words · Christopher Hicks

Norway’s new passport is beautiful.

January 8, 2017 · 1 min · 18 words · Christopher Hicks

Now your Windows gaming experience sucks less, thanks to Linux.

January 4, 2017 · 1 min · 36 words · Christopher Hicks

2016  32

December  2

Somebody should tell the cops that they were hired to protect our freedoms

December 26, 2016 · 1 min · 136 words · Christopher Hicks

Bozos (Trump) attacking union leaders

December 8, 2016 · 1 min · 41 words · Christopher Hicks

November  7

Amazon today announced a new product called simply Product

November 30, 2016 · 1 min · 113 words · Christopher Hicks

All of that and Perl and Larry Wall. Thank you!

November 22, 2016 · 1 min · 20 words · Christopher Hicks

AWS continues to lead the industry in selling snake oil

November 20, 2016 · 1 min · 35 words · Christopher Hicks

We’ve needed to learn to present data better for a long time.

November 18, 2016 · 1 min · 17 words · Christopher Hicks

Where are the Windows Supercomputers?

November 15, 2016 · 1 min · 34 words · Christopher Hicks

Bravo LEGO Group. This is this the way to lead.

November 13, 2016 · 1 min · 34 words · Christopher Hicks

It speaks for itself. Vote2016

November 6, 2016 · 1 min · 22 words · Christopher Hicks

October  1

The problem here is that Limbaugh enjoys having his pants on fire.

October 9, 2016 · 1 min · 24 words · Christopher Hicks

September  1

Akamai leaves us guessing

September 23, 2016 · 2 min · 215 words · Christopher Hicks

August  4

We had a great time at Bricks by the Bay 2016.

August 22, 2016 · 1 min · 46 words · Christopher Hicks

Why pivot when you are so awesome?

August 17, 2016 · 1 min · 19 words · Christopher Hicks

Progress comes in little steps.

August 6, 2016 · 1 min · 27 words · Christopher Hicks

Maybe AOL would be doing something if their CEO wasn’t wasting his time a…

August 3, 2016 · 1 min · 45 words · Christopher Hicks

July  2

A nice interview with Christian McCarrick, my VP of Engineering at Telmate.

July 13, 2016 · 1 min · 30 words · Christopher Hicks

So you’re telling me I have to go to Jupiter to buy these LEGO’s? OK…

July 6, 2016 · 1 min · 39 words · Christopher Hicks

June  1

Microsoft keeps acting more reasonable. How about having the

June 18, 2016 · 1 min · 42 words · Christopher Hicks

May  3

Open source architecture is apparently all about building real buildings

May 31, 2016 · 1 min · 32 words · Christopher Hicks

OK Housing advocates: pick your poison.

May 20, 2016 · 1 min · 42 words · Christopher Hicks

Apple knows better than you whether you need those pesky music files.

May 5, 2016 · 1 min · 22 words · Christopher Hicks

April  2

Dismantle the copyright tyranny soon please.

April 10, 2016 · 1 min · 59 words · Christopher Hicks

Blizzard doesn’t deal well with open source community.

April 8, 2016 · 1 min · 54 words · Christopher Hicks

March  2

Chicks eats chicks, who knew?

March 30, 2016 · 1 min · 29 words · Christopher Hicks

Why aren’t any of the candidates talking about important issues like killing DST?

March 12, 2016 · 1 min · 30 words · Christopher Hicks

February  2

Buy this pool table! :)

February 14, 2016 · 1 min · 59 words · Christopher Hicks

At least we can agree that Dick Feynman was mega-awesome.

February 3, 2016 · 1 min · 35 words · Christopher Hicks

January  5

The only reason I bought these games is that they were available for Linux.

January 29, 2016 · 3 min · 615 words · Christopher Hicks

Find your plaques, slackers!

January 28, 2016 · 1 min · 22 words · Christopher Hicks

“Someone asked on Twitter whether this meant President Obama is also res…

January 24, 2016 · 1 min · 91 words · Christopher Hicks

Colocating your engineers and production facilities results in better products

January 19, 2016 · 1 min · 76 words · Christopher Hicks

I’m still not getting a twitter account!

January 5, 2016 · 1 min · 38 words · Christopher Hicks

2015  39

December  2

Glory in the science while you download the data from github.

December 10, 2015 · 1 min · 31 words · Christopher Hicks

PHP, Java, and .NET are more prone to security problems.

December 4, 2015 · 1 min · 44 words · Christopher Hicks

November  1

“Why Smart People Act So Stupid” is the story of my life. :)

November 25, 2015 · 1 min · 28 words · Christopher Hicks

October  2

An open letter from an Israeli to her Muslim Uber driver

October 19, 2015 · 1 min · 15 words · Christopher Hicks

Some interesting metrics for what drivers are earning on Uber’s platform.

October 12, 2015 · 1 min · 27 words · Christopher Hicks

September  1

Do you have any suggestions for user-friendly DNS management?

September 14, 2015 · 1 min · 17 words · Christopher Hicks

July  1

distributed.net has been down for a week.

July 16, 2015 · 1 min · 32 words · Christopher Hicks

May  4

The Muppets plus Lindsey Stirling is more awesome than I can possibly find words worthy.

May 12, 2015 · 1 min · 23 words · Christopher Hicks

A fun weekend with Natalie, Hoan + crew. A lovely and stimulating tour of Mission Santa Barbara.

May 11, 2015 · 1 min · 39 words · Christopher Hicks

Google+ Post

May 11, 2015 · 1 min · 4 words · Christopher Hicks

Google+ Post

May 11, 2015 · 1 min · 33 words · Christopher Hicks

April  1

Lovely arrangements at the Tulip Show at Mountain View this last weekend.

April 1, 2015 · 1 min · 16 words · Christopher Hicks

March  10

Check out Frank Gehry’s model for the new Facebook building.

March 20, 2015 · 1 min · 26 words · Christopher Hicks

mail.clintonemail.com is running Outlook Web App backed by Microsoft Exchange

March 18, 2015 · 1 min · 86 words · Christopher Hicks

Ladies, you too can kick ass in tech.

March 17, 2015 · 1 min · 23 words · Christopher Hicks

These guys moved to real hardware, it cost them half as much as AWS, and it w…

March 16, 2015 · 1 min · 136 words · Christopher Hicks

Hey Florida, don’t forget to burn the copies of 1984 and your scie…

March 10, 2015 · 1 min · 78 words · Christopher Hicks

If you want your answers to today’s key science questions spend more time watching cartoons.

March 5, 2015 · 1 min · 34 words · Christopher Hicks

Here is my first game guide on Steam.

March 4, 2015 · 1 min · 23 words · Christopher Hicks

This is a riot and so true .

March 4, 2015 · 2 min · 310 words · Christopher Hicks

The best part of this is that almost every country thinks they are the least …

March 2, 2015 · 2 min · 271 words · Christopher Hicks

OGR-28 is plugging along.

March 1, 2015 · 1 min · 17 words · Christopher Hicks

February  10

Plants vs Zombies: All Achievements Guide

February 22, 2015 · 8 min · 1593 words · Christopher Hicks

I’ve had mostly positive experiences with t-mobile.

February 21, 2015 · 1 min · 41 words · Christopher Hicks

Every home should have an ISS detector. How about one for your car?

February 20, 2015 · 1 min · 63 words · Christopher Hicks

What are we waiting for?

February 20, 2015 · 1 min · 16 words · Christopher Hicks

Have you ever been annoyed that GitHub doesn’t put the right Content-type on raw files?

February 19, 2015 · 1 min · 33 words · Christopher Hicks

New map shows America’s quietest places

February 17, 2015 · 1 min · 55 words · Christopher Hicks

Some guy brings home a bag of debris from another day at work and forgets it …

February 9, 2015 · 1 min · 71 words · Christopher Hicks

It is great to see The Princess Bride enchanting new generations and that the…

February 9, 2015 · 1 min · 48 words · Christopher Hicks

SO many cute animals that you would expect to eat each other! good job

February 7, 2015 · 1 min · 36 words · Christopher Hicks

Perl is the least frustrating language in the universe. Here’s the scien…

February 6, 2015 · 1 min · 173 words · Christopher Hicks

January  7

The Perl hate is getting old, but at least some folks are talking sense.

January 22, 2015 · 1 min · 35 words · Christopher Hicks

We cannot accept that rivers in India show higher concentrations of active antibiotic than the blood of someone undergoing treatment.

January 19, 2015 · 1 min · 39 words · Christopher Hicks

Casual day in the Bay Area.

January 18, 2015 · 1 min · 18 words · Christopher Hicks

Or just run the other way.

January 14, 2015 · 1 min · 21 words · Christopher Hicks

Please stop losing the important historical objects.

January 11, 2015 · 1 min · 23 words · Christopher Hicks

I’m avoiding Yosemite for now but I may end up relegating

January 4, 2015 · 2 min · 249 words · Christopher Hicks

Slick hack.

January 2, 2015 · 1 min · 125 words · Christopher Hicks

2014  39

December  3

A great year for open hardware.

December 24, 2014 · 1 min · 29 words · Christopher Hicks

An eighth reason to buy an Android phone over an iPhone

December 14, 2014 · 1 min · 24 words · Christopher Hicks

Some pictures of San Francisco from angles you may not have seen before.

December 13, 2014 · 1 min · 75 words · Christopher Hicks

November  7

Check out some of the gorgeous graffiti in Southeast Oakland. For more…

November 22, 2014 · 1 min · 25 words · Christopher Hicks

This and a few more smart ideas might actually get me to play as the spy.

November 20, 2014 · 1 min · 34 words · Christopher Hicks

It is amazing what can be done with 300 neurons.

November 20, 2014 · 1 min · 21 words · Christopher Hicks

Sexy laptop with no proprietary drivers or software, if it gets funded…

November 19, 2014 · 1 min · 204 words · Christopher Hicks

This sounds fun, but XCOM took long enough already.

November 18, 2014 · 1 min · 31 words · Christopher Hicks

We now have a Perl-based modern configuration management system.

November 15, 2014 · 1 min · 150 words · Christopher Hicks

Let us be clear: I am part of the problem. I say “ops guys” all of the time.

November 10, 2014 · 3 min · 547 words · Christopher Hicks

September  6

Cake Board is a LEGO-friendly breadboard

September 22, 2014 · 1 min · 8 words · Christopher Hicks

This guy talks about Linux distributions for 13 paragraphs without mentioning package formats.

September 15, 2014 · 1 min · 152 words · Christopher Hicks

After the recent spat of Linux is the Devil articles it is shocking to see something that gets it right.

September 11, 2014 · 1 min · 30 words · Christopher Hicks

Ugly codes helps us appreciate how good code can be.

September 8, 2014 · 1 min · 27 words · Christopher Hicks

Informative without requiring registration. :)

September 4, 2014 · 1 min · 22 words · Christopher Hicks

When you need to save the world, Perl is there.

September 2, 2014 · 1 min · 21 words · Christopher Hicks

August  6

Has Microsoft decided it was time to run a bunch of anti-Linux articles?

August 28, 2014 · 1 min · 105 words · Christopher Hicks

The author of this article likes to poke at the glitches in the Linux desktop.

August 22, 2014 · 2 min · 354 words · Christopher Hicks

Everybody has an awesome invention buried inside waiting to get out.

August 13, 2014 · 1 min · 26 words · Christopher Hicks

Why can’t we just ban patents?

August 12, 2014 · 1 min · 17 words · Christopher Hicks

Is crisis price gouging actually good for you?

August 2, 2014 · 1 min · 22 words · Christopher Hicks

We have another chance to validate the GPL in court.

August 2, 2014 · 2 min · 326 words · Christopher Hicks

July  2

This is a great presentation of the available instance types for AWS.

July 31, 2014 · 1 min · 31 words · Christopher Hicks

So, linked-in is using cfengine and svn this year, right now, in 2014. Consi…

July 6, 2014 · 1 min · 58 words · Christopher Hicks

June  2

SpaceX’s new Dragon capsule is the sexiest spaceship yet!

June 29, 2014 · 1 min · 21 words · Christopher Hicks

gorgeous!

June 17, 2014 · 1 min · 14 words · Christopher Hicks

May  2

You should not be shocked at how much copyrights are abused by now. Most peo…

May 20, 2014 · 1 min · 72 words · Christopher Hicks

Asylum Street Spankers: If You Want Me To Love You

May 18, 2014 · 1 min · 23 words · Christopher Hicks

April  2

Clouds in Oakland, oh my!

April 27, 2014 · 1 min · 13 words · Christopher Hicks

Why do we need phone manufacturers?

April 27, 2014 · 1 min · 40 words · Christopher Hicks

March  1

Penn & Teller rock!

March 13, 2014 · 1 min · 16 words · Christopher Hicks

February  3

An interesting take on my github contributions.

February 15, 2014 · 1 min · 49 words · Christopher Hicks

Put it in a Superbowl advertisement where the American National Anthem …

February 11, 2014 · 1 min · 98 words · Christopher Hicks

I understand that hardware and software are different, but I think the making…

February 4, 2014 · 2 min · 301 words · Christopher Hicks

January  5

No meetings block in the afternoons.

January 28, 2014 · 1 min · 90 words · Christopher Hicks

We are not mythical creatures living in a niche ghost town. We are real people…

January 24, 2014 · 1 min · 46 words · Christopher Hicks

Thank goodness we have the open source community to keep Apple and Microsoft on their toes.

January 17, 2014 · 1 min · 40 words · Christopher Hicks

Congratulations Nesters. (on getting acquired)

January 13, 2014 · 1 min · 19 words · Christopher Hicks

Some parts of the government seem to be wiser about rolling out a website.

January 2, 2014 · 1 min · 33 words · Christopher Hicks

2013  118

December  2

I find this analogy of religion to UNIX history much more revealing than the …

December 30, 2013 · 1 min · 50 words · Christopher Hicks

A full sized LEGO car with a LEGO engine. Merry Christmas!

December 20, 2013 · 1 min · 24 words · Christopher Hicks

November  12

Thanks Russell, but I’ve been avoiding Murdoch’s lies for years!

November 30, 2013 · 1 min · 27 words · Christopher Hicks

Bizarre concept car

November 30, 2013 · 1 min · 13 words · Christopher Hicks

Writing software is hard sometimes.

November 30, 2013 · 1 min · 17 words · Christopher Hicks

Paul at BrightRoll helped me find my secret card!

November 27, 2013 · 1 min · 38 words · Christopher Hicks

So, do you want to cry about phantom floppy drives messages or fight viruses …

November 24, 2013 · 1 min · 120 words · Christopher Hicks

San Francisco from the Fairmont Hotel. The view of the Coit Tower was also e…

November 21, 2013 · 1 min · 168 words · Christopher Hicks

Another awesome product idea that got off the ground thanks to a Kickstarter

November 20, 2013 · 1 min · 39 words · Christopher Hicks

Please sponsor me in Movember.

November 13, 2013 · 1 min · 13 words · Christopher Hicks

Education that keeps you on the edge of your seat. I love Mehdi.

November 13, 2013 · 1 min · 19 words · Christopher Hicks

I’m glad to see large scale studies of computer hardware such as this.

November 12, 2013 · 1 min · 52 words · Christopher Hicks

Defunct linked-in 2013-11-11

November 11, 2013 · 1 min · word · Christopher Hicks

wunderlist is pretty good really

November 1, 2013 · 1 min · 18 words · Christopher Hicks

October  3

This would make life so much simpler if it happened.

October 21, 2013 · 1 min · 29 words · Christopher Hicks

Sleep more, live better, go figure.

October 9, 2013 · 1 min · 19 words · Christopher Hicks

Wunderlist works well for me.

October 1, 2013 · 1 min · 10 words · Christopher Hicks

September  14

VCs Should Give Honest Feedback & Why They Often Don’t

September 27, 2013 · 1 min · 6 words · Christopher Hicks

I won candy on the Google Birthday Doodle

September 27, 2013 · 1 min · 21 words · Christopher Hicks

The Boy Scouts of America puts branding in front of making smarter kids. Hmmm.

September 26, 2013 · 1 min · 32 words · Christopher Hicks

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Had His Top Execs Read These Three Books

September 26, 2013 · 1 min · 8 words · Christopher Hicks

LEGOs can do anything.

September 24, 2013 · 1 min · 27 words · Christopher Hicks

Oakland is under-rated.

September 23, 2013 · 1 min · 11 words · Christopher Hicks

There are just so many layers of awesome here it is mind blowing.

September 21, 2013 · 1 min · 51 words · Christopher Hicks

Greg and Zoe had their apartment burn down

September 20, 2013 · 1 min · 57 words · Christopher Hicks

Get 10G free for 2 years in your google account by logging into the new Quick…

September 20, 2013 · 1 min · 33 words · Christopher Hicks

I hope Microsoft keeps burning through their pile of cash to buy dying companies like Nokia.

September 18, 2013 · 1 min · 73 words · Christopher Hicks

Here are some statistics about Oakland you might like to know.

September 12, 2013 · 1 min · 20 words · Christopher Hicks

Vatra Inc

September 5, 2013 · 1 min · 14 words · Christopher Hicks

The only way to make Android any better was to add chocolate.

September 4, 2013 · 1 min · 32 words · Christopher Hicks

Miley Cyrus’ Best Career Move. Ever.

September 4, 2013 · 1 min · 6 words · Christopher Hicks

August  13

I just started trying this out, but it appears to be a cheap and easy if not …

August 24, 2013 · 1 min · 41 words · Christopher Hicks

I’m so glad to see that the Internet can work around stupid corporations …

August 23, 2013 · 1 min · 51 words · Christopher Hicks

Yahoo manages to make a travesty out of a tragedy.

August 18, 2013 · 1 min · 48 words · Christopher Hicks

Aren’t you happy to be on google+ instead?

August 15, 2013 · 1 min · 98 words · Christopher Hicks

A backyard nuclear reactor for your own amusement

August 13, 2013 · 1 min · 69 words · Christopher Hicks

A balanced view of free software helps effectively separate the hype from the facts.

August 10, 2013 · 1 min · 104 words · Christopher Hicks

Defunct linked-in 2013-08-08 19:29:37

August 8, 2013 · 1 min · 11 words · Christopher Hicks

In Tough Times, Abandon Your Employees

August 8, 2013 · 1 min · 6 words · Christopher Hicks

checklists++

August 7, 2013 · 1 min · 14 words · Christopher Hicks

Change Your Habits with a Good Checklist

August 7, 2013 · 1 min · 6 words · Christopher Hicks

Stop the Presses: A New Media Baron Appears

August 6, 2013 · 1 min · 9 words · Christopher Hicks

Maybe Apple will realize the advantages of being open …

August 3, 2013 · 1 min · 37 words · Christopher Hicks

Jimmy Wales nails it: maybe it is time for the police to take our tax dollars…

August 3, 2013 · 1 min · 53 words · Christopher Hicks

July  16

Let’s build a supercomputer!

July 31, 2013 · 1 min · 25 words · Christopher Hicks

I hope the geeks at google are hunting down the lawyers about now…

July 31, 2013 · 1 min · 41 words · Christopher Hicks

Yay for rooting Android phones.

July 29, 2013 · 1 min · 63 words · Christopher Hicks

When a Favorite Company Breaks Your Heart

July 29, 2013 · 1 min · 5 words · Christopher Hicks

My favorite paragraph:

July 27, 2013 · 1 min · 116 words · Christopher Hicks

Can I get some place like this in Santa Monica?

July 26, 2013 · 1 min · 32 words · Christopher Hicks

Seems obvious but I don’t know many CEO’s who get this.

July 25, 2013 · 1 min · 24 words · Christopher Hicks

Fly To The Top – The 30:30:30:10 Rule

July 19, 2013 · 1 min · 6 words · Christopher Hicks

Linux is finally winning on the desktop

July 18, 2013 · 1 min · 38 words · Christopher Hicks

Executive summary: Perl is awesome, Java sucks, and there are also some other languages.

July 17, 2013 · 3 min · 450 words · Christopher Hicks

Board games in Santa Monica

July 16, 2013 · 1 min · 53 words · Christopher Hicks

In case you were wondering about how I maintain my youthful figure. #420

July 13, 2013 · 1 min · 178 words · Christopher Hicks

This is the perfect thing to read on Saturday morning.

July 13, 2013 · 1 min · 43 words · Christopher Hicks

Biked 20 miles from Santa Monica to get here!

July 4, 2013 · 2 min · 299 words · Christopher Hicks

REI Address: 402 Santa Monica Boulevard…

July 3, 2013 · 1 min · 16 words · Christopher Hicks

Ask google for native drive client for Linux

July 2, 2013 · 1 min · 23 words · Christopher Hicks

June  10

We had a great time cycling through the streets of LA

June 28, 2013 · 1 min · 19 words · Christopher Hicks

Google+ Picture Post about CicLAvia

June 28, 2013 · 1 min · 4 words · Christopher Hicks

Excellent vegan lasagna

June 26, 2013 · 1 min · 53 words · Christopher Hicks

I’ve replaced my Verizon phone finally! Time to celebrate!!

June 25, 2013 · 1 min · 29 words · Christopher Hicks

Beautiful, amazing, sad, wow, hmmm

June 20, 2013 · 1 min · 12 words · Christopher Hicks

For all of us that made fun of Richard Stallman and other free software zealots…

June 15, 2013 · 2 min · 276 words · Christopher Hicks

With 2 cousins.

June 11, 2013 · 1 min · 25 words · Christopher Hicks

Dinah’s Fried Chicken Address: 4106 San Fernando Rd

June 2, 2013 · 1 min · 20 words · Christopher Hicks

I’m guessing Rupert is going to end up with TribCo…

June 1, 2013 · 1 min · 34 words · Christopher Hicks

Citibank Address: 5053 York Boulevard

June 1, 2013 · 1 min · 14 words · Christopher Hicks

May  10

What if you learned about personal branding from the greats?

May 30, 2013 · 1 min · 6 words · Christopher Hicks

Fritto Misto was Excellent

May 29, 2013 · 1 min · 81 words · Christopher Hicks

This doesn’t seem like overkill at all.

May 28, 2013 · 1 min · 127 words · Christopher Hicks

M Street Kitchen,2000 Main Street

May 28, 2013 · 1 min · 18 words · Christopher Hicks

So you’re telling me I could have created Toy Story on my Commodore 64 in 1984?

May 16, 2013 · 1 min · 41 words · Christopher Hicks

Google+ Post

May 16, 2013 · 1 min · 47 words · Christopher Hicks

My new desk is pretty cool.

May 15, 2013 · 2 min · 242 words · Christopher Hicks

The best flan ever.

May 15, 2013 · 1 min · 143 words · Christopher Hicks

Today was my first day. Default is 4 monitors!

May 15, 2013 · 1 min · 33 words · Christopher Hicks

Pretty good top 10 movie list

May 4, 2013 · 1 min · 48 words · Christopher Hicks

April  12

I just got my first Sortainer and I’m very pleased.

April 30, 2013 · 1 min · 118 words · Christopher Hicks

And so it begins

April 27, 2013 · 1 min · 124 words · Christopher Hicks

Your Most Important Career Decision

April 23, 2013 · 1 min · 6 words · Christopher Hicks

Computer History Miseum in Mountain View

April 17, 2013 · 1 min · 34 words · Christopher Hicks

Arduinio Hackathon at OpenX Pasadena announcement

April 17, 2013 · 1 min · 139 words · Christopher Hicks

OpenX Arduino Hackathon 2013

April 16, 2013 · 1 min · 48 words · Christopher Hicks

The best cheap hotel in Silicon Valley. Great design. The sink is amazing. …

April 16, 2013 · 1 min · 80 words · Christopher Hicks

Heading to Akamai Usability Council meeting

April 13, 2013 · 1 min · 32 words · Christopher Hicks

We are doing an Arduino Hackathon at OpenX Pasadena on Fri 26 April.

April 10, 2013 · 1 min · 44 words · Christopher Hicks

Welcome lunch in Pasadena.

April 9, 2013 · 1 min · 61 words · Christopher Hicks

Good time management tips, well put together.

April 3, 2013 · 1 min · 47 words · Christopher Hicks

Apparently the USC news crew is a tad sassy! I like it.

April 2, 2013 · 1 min · 39 words · Christopher Hicks

March  16

Amara Chocolate & Coffee

March 31, 2013 · 1 min · 22 words · Christopher Hicks

Gathering for hike to Henninger and beyond!

March 30, 2013 · 1 min · 37 words · Christopher Hicks

Linked-in endorsements are a handy easy button.

March 27, 2013 · 1 min · 91 words · Christopher Hicks

“Lessons Learned Developing Software for Space Vehicles” should ben…

March 25, 2013 · 1 min · 44 words · Christopher Hicks

The audience at last night’s MongoDB presentation at Q.

March 19, 2013 · 1 min · 26 words · Christopher Hicks

Hulu LLC 12312 West Olympic Boulevard

March 18, 2013 · 1 min · 32 words · Christopher Hicks

I am impressed that the Washington Post is now debunking viral videos.

March 15, 2013 · 1 min · 40 words · Christopher Hicks

A well written introduction to Linux for small business.

March 14, 2013 · 1 min · 25 words · Christopher Hicks

The first dye station from a distance. And dancing girls.

March 10, 2013 · 1 min · 183 words · Christopher Hicks

I was there for a meetup but the only folks I found were Natalie and Hoan. W…

March 10, 2013 · 1 min · 75 words · Christopher Hicks

Google+ Photo Post

March 10, 2013 · 1 min · 41 words · Christopher Hicks

Photo after the race

March 10, 2013 · 1 min · 52 words · Christopher Hicks

The haze of smoke is apparent

March 10, 2013 · 1 min · 31 words · Christopher Hicks

The after picture of Jan’s plant.

March 9, 2013 · 1 min · 16 words · Christopher Hicks

Lee Hall on Field Tripper

March 3, 2013 · 1 min · 24 words · Christopher Hicks

You can make real money selling games for Linux.

March 1, 2013 · 1 min · 26 words · Christopher Hicks

February  8

Unlocked Tux by playing TF2 in Linux

February 28, 2013 · 1 min · 46 words · Christopher Hicks

Culture influences your thinking patterns.

February 26, 2013 · 1 min · 18 words · Christopher Hicks

Cartographer Porn

February 25, 2013 · 1 min · 25 words · Christopher Hicks

11 Simple Concepts to Become a Better Leader

February 24, 2013 · 1 min · 16 words · Christopher Hicks

lol

February 14, 2013 · 1 min · 11 words · Christopher Hicks

defunct wow!

February 12, 2013 · 1 min · 11 words · Christopher Hicks

It is such an oddity to see any rain in LA

February 10, 2013 · 1 min · 71 words · Christopher Hicks

Landing a job at one particular company

February 8, 2013 · 1 min · 24 words · Christopher Hicks

January  2

Arduino-Controlled RGB Lamp

January 20, 2013 · 1 min · 30 words · Christopher Hicks

defunct linked-in 2013-01-18 15:27:44

January 18, 2013 · 1 min · 14 words · Christopher Hicks

2012  37

November  5

Lovely Vasquez Rocks: shooting site for Star Trek and many other things

November 1, 2012 · 1 min · 16 words · Christopher Hicks

[Address: 8911-8917 Santa Monica Blvd, West Hollyw…

November 1, 2012 · 1 min · 42 words · Christopher Hicks

[Address: 8950-8954 Santa Monica Blvd, West Hollyw…

November 1, 2012 · 1 min · 44 words · Christopher Hicks

[Address: 9000 Santa Monica Blvd, West Hollywood,…

November 1, 2012 · 1 min · 48 words · Christopher Hicks

Address: 8910 Santa Monica Blvd, West Hollywood,…

November 1, 2012 · 1 min · 31 words · Christopher Hicks

October  5

Amazing Radiolab.

October 27, 2012 · 1 min · 9 words · Christopher Hicks

Windows users don’t have as much money to spend on books and games

October 21, 2012 · 1 min · 97 words · Christopher Hicks

A month to yourself

October 17, 2012 · 1 min · 22 words · Christopher Hicks

Why don’t we bring this practice to America?

October 13, 2012 · 1 min · 20 words · Christopher Hicks

This looks fun.

October 11, 2012 · 1 min · 13 words · Christopher Hicks

September  3

When your phone calls are news that could be a sign your campaign is over.

September 28, 2012 · 1 min · 43 words · Christopher Hicks

Beautiful tribute to Portal by WETA

September 23, 2012 · 1 min · 12 words · Christopher Hicks

Tea anyone? rofl

September 4, 2012 · 1 min · 57 words · Christopher Hicks

August  9

Rain and a rainbow in Pasadena the evening before a Blue Moon. Wow.

August 31, 2012 · 1 min · 17 words · Christopher Hicks

Here’s some raw bullshit for your entertainment and outrage.

August 25, 2012 · 1 min · 112 words · Christopher Hicks

Enjoy the politics pr0n, lib friends.

August 13, 2012 · 1 min · 25 words · Christopher Hicks

I’m glad to see this being framed as a rights question.

August 12, 2012 · 1 min · 39 words · Christopher Hicks

Windows users are more selfish than MacOS or Linux users.

August 8, 2012 · 1 min · 43 words · Christopher Hicks

It is so sad that iphone users will miss out on the latest innovations

August 8, 2012 · 1 min · 36 words · Christopher Hicks

Publican Quality Meats

August 6, 2012 · 1 min · 13 words · Christopher Hicks

Apple’s case against Samsung’s designs strains any rational consideration.

August 1, 2012 · 1 min · 76 words · Christopher Hicks

There are some absolutely beautiful creations in here.

August 1, 2012 · 1 min · 17 words · Christopher Hicks

July  2

Why does spam get archived in hours?

July 17, 2012 · 1 min · 186 words · Christopher Hicks

I finally got an Ultimate Badge in Google News. :)

July 8, 2012 · 1 min · 20 words · Christopher Hicks

June  1

This is a great design even if a bit pricey.

June 19, 2012 · 1 min · 25 words · Christopher Hicks

May  3

It was a bit chilly in Santa Monica, but our dinner at Fig was incredible.

May 27, 2012 · 1 min · 19 words · Christopher Hicks

Classic Silicon Valley.

May 26, 2012 · 1 min · 46 words · Christopher Hicks

Defunct job post

May 14, 2012 · 1 min · 28 words · Christopher Hicks

April  3

Good production values and a useful message for folks who aren’t familiar…

April 21, 2012 · 1 min · 139 words · Christopher Hicks

LibreOffice is superior

April 20, 2012 · 1 min · 86 words · Christopher Hicks

good job google (April Fools)

April 1, 2012 · 1 min · 19 words · Christopher Hicks

February  3

OpenX is profitable.

February 13, 2012 · 1 min · 20 words · Christopher Hicks

Great #Arduino documentary.

February 10, 2012 · 1 min · 9 words · Christopher Hicks

This is amazing. And the code is now open sourced

February 9, 2012 · 1 min · 24 words · Christopher Hicks

January  3

A vivid and unique look at where our gadgets are made and the people that make them.

January 30, 2012 · 1 min · 31 words · Christopher Hicks

The solution to American schools is to focus on equity and kick out the private sector.

January 2, 2012 · 1 min · 132 words · Christopher Hicks

One of my theme songs. Start Wearing Purple!

January 1, 2012 · 1 min · 28 words · Christopher Hicks

2011  32

December  6

Now that is a Christmas present!

December 27, 2011 · 1 min · 16 words · Christopher Hicks

The Emperor still has no clothes. Alec Baldwin may be an ass…

December 15, 2011 · 1 min · 212 words · Christopher Hicks

Have you and your bar buddies changed the world lately? Slackers.

December 11, 2011 · 1 min · 28 words · Christopher Hicks

The MythBusters launch a cannonball through a neighborhood accidentally

December 9, 2011 · 1 min · 26 words · Christopher Hicks

I read a few passages from Small is profitable.

December 7, 2011 · 1 min · 116 words · Christopher Hicks

Commentary on unknown article

December 7, 2011 · 1 min · 135 words · Christopher Hicks

November  13

Picking up Turducken form Hog Wild Smokehouse

November 23, 2011 · 1 min · 40 words · Christopher Hicks

Nicely put. Do you have time to read it?

November 21, 2011 · 1 min · 189 words · Christopher Hicks

How amused can I be that the AdSense v3 UI doesn’t come up at all with Chrome

November 14, 2011 · 1 min · 30 words · Christopher Hicks

Android is eating the phone market impressively fast.

November 9, 2011 · 1 min · 62 words · Christopher Hicks

They can’t even let somebody pay for the Santa out of his own pocket

November 8, 2011 · 1 min · 42 words · Christopher Hicks

Breaking News! Film at 11! Prohibitionists are irrational zealots on a miss…

November 8, 2011 · 1 min · 162 words · Christopher Hicks

This outage was broader than just Time Warner, but the news outlets seem to be unaware

November 7, 2011 · 1 min · 67 words · Christopher Hicks

An excellent distillation of what rational conversation should be.

November 6, 2011 · 1 min · 152 words · Christopher Hicks

So I’ve ended up playing with Windows7 (gaming platform) more than intended

November 6, 2011 · 2 min · 268 words · Christopher Hicks

Funny and awesome and Arduino. You thought those 3.5" drives and floppi…

November 6, 2011 · 1 min · 93 words · Christopher Hicks

This is amazing. The animation is good and entertaining.

November 5, 2011 · 1 min · 44 words · Christopher Hicks

Behind Jo’s house

November 4, 2011 · 1 min · 7 words · Christopher Hicks

A beautifully executed article on equations. Seriously.

November 4, 2011 · 1 min · 22 words · Christopher Hicks

October  2

OpenX opened new data center in <60 days

October 15, 2011 · 1 min · 65 words · Christopher Hicks

So open source world, regarding that $2B value I’ve received

October 4, 2011 · 1 min · 98 words · Christopher Hicks

September  9

This could be pretty cool. I always wanted a PSP with a screen bigger than a postage stamp.

September 12, 2011 · 1 min · 34 words · Christopher Hicks

Interesting.

September 11, 2011 · 1 min · 24 words · Christopher Hicks

With lots of pictures!

September 10, 2011 · 1 min · 36 words · Christopher Hicks

City of Wonder Information Post

September 10, 2011 · 5 min · 944 words · Christopher Hicks

Credit Cards can be hacked by Mobile phones

September 10, 2011 · 2 min · 363 words · Christopher Hicks

Californians have a year left of tax free Amazon. Enjoy.

September 9, 2011 · 1 min · 48 words · Christopher Hicks

Via Cake on FB. “They have perverted medical science and our lega…

September 7, 2011 · 3 min · 608 words · Christopher Hicks

This is beautiful and brilliant and something you can participate in. Help f…

September 3, 2011 · 1 min · 33 words · Christopher Hicks

I’m a noob again too since I learned several things from this. Enjoy.

September 2, 2011 · 1 min · 40 words · Christopher Hicks

August  1

Today is my first day on google plus and I have run into two frustrations.

August 15, 2011 · 1 min · 174 words · Christopher Hicks

July  1

Nice Couchbase ops training in SF

July 29, 2011 · 1 min · 22 words · Christopher Hicks

1999  2

November  1

Microsoft Is A Monopoly

November 15, 1999 · 4 min · 765 words · Christopher Hicks

June  1

Linux… changing the face of computing.

June 6, 1999 · 3 min · 595 words · Christopher Hicks