http://www.nicholastuck.com/news.phpNews of Nicholas Tucknicholastuck@hotmail.comOn April 5th of 2009 my son was born! He was 36 weeks, 4 weeks early, however came out perfect and quick! They tested him to be 39 weeks so he is in good shape. <br><br>He is awesome, has all 10 fingers all 10 toes, and has been a dream all day, only crying for the first 20 seconds and been relaxing ever since.<br><br>He was 5lb 10ounces and 19 inches long. Amanda is okay and he is healthy as can be. Photos to come soon so check back!http://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Ryan Anthony is Bornhttp://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Ryan Anthony is BornIt has been some time, but I wanted to make a note of this before I forget. I was offered to continue through to graduate school here at UNL with pre admissions. I would not have to take the regularly required GRE test due to my superb gpa. <br><br>They also offered quite the amount of scholarship as well, however I am content with the amount of schooling I have received and am ready to move on in my life. I have no intention on taking this offer however it gives me great pride to know I earned the opportunity.<br><br>Happy New Years!http://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Graduate School Offerhttp://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Graduate School OfferSo I had a project for myself which was to create a design in Word Press as I have never worked with WordPress in my life and I felt that I couldn't call my self a web developer without doing just that. <br><br>So I have created a setup that sets the stage as an online business. It is not a real business but mostly to try to see if I could succeed in search engine optimization and get a web site in top 5 of google for web development nebraska and web design nebraska. <br><br>I also plan to use it to post my ideas about web tools, web news, and anything else with technology. Maybe it will get popular and I can make some money off the advertising but we will see.http://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Web Development Projecthttp://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Web Development ProjectWhile working web development every day I have been more aware of SEO options and tips, and been reading up on it quite a bit.<br><br>My site is not very organized for SEO, however I am doing many things right, but am lazy and been doing many things wrong.<br><br>I figure this is more or less my test server for stuff I want to try out and those of you who check my site know my site, not really looking to gain too much traffic of googlehttp://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Search Engine Optimizationhttp://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Search Engine OptimizationI continue to be pushed down on rankings for Nick Tuck and it is really starting to bother me. So I obtained Nick Tuck .net and Nick Tuck .info. <br><br>Hopefully these will help me stay up at the top once they get indexed. They will point straight to here basically, however having the domains nick tuck should help. I wanted Nick Tuck .com however that was registered, and they renewed it this year, but they are not using it.<br><br>Oh well this should do for now.http://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Added Nick Tuck . Net and . Infohttp://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Added Nick Tuck . Net and . InfoAfter working a few months as the <b>Web Director</b> and sole programmer, I have learned so much about the web development business. I wanted to eventually lead into programming/software engineering, however web development has such a potential for helping so many local businesses you can easily travel anywhere and get it going. Heck we have clients in Chicago that heard of us by word of mouth, you don't need to be there for web development, you just need to be good.<br><br>Raises a lot of ideas of if I could spend my life being a web programmer, or if I should try to still pursue a career in software. Only time will tell I guess.http://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Web Developmenthttp://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Web DevelopmentI have been working at a local web development company doing web development/design for almost a month now. I came into a situation where I was basically the only one working web development one week into the job, and had no real training. As overwhelming this situation was and stressful I was able to make it through the 'Oh Sh*t' stage and now I feel as comfortable as ever.<br><br>I have been a part of deals starting from as low as $500 to as much as $5000, and the experience I am gaining both business sense and software development is more than I could have hoped for. I have basically been the web director for the past month and I have learned so much. Though I have taken this time to get an old director back to the company, it is a wise decision for me in the long term as I know I will learn so much from this individual, the experience will be worth more than the money.http://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#<!-- New Job Updatehttp://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#<!-- New Job UpdateSo it feels extremely nice when you get asked in for an interview without applying. I was contacted by a friend of mine Nosika wondering if I was still interesting in a web development position as they had yet to find a viable candidate they felt comfortable with.<br><br>After sending over my resume and sending over some portfolio items I had an interview. That interview went great I think, especially since I got the job right after. <br><br>They hired me as a web developer to start and see how I do during the 'evaluation period' however they have hopes of promoting me to web director shortly after if all goes well. <br><br>I am super excited to have a full time job programming, designing, and working with customers doing everything I love to do on my own time.http://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Got a New Job!http://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Got a New Job!I am done with all of my finals, I have nothing to worry about as I know I knocked them all out of the park, and I was passing all my classes to begin with. It feels so great to be done with this year of school. <br><br>It was so packed with so much new stuff for me I just couldn't handle it for much longer. Had two jobs, had to deal with a roommate with crabs, then got married and moved into an apartment, two very major steps in life that we took in stride and all the insurance and everything! It was a very packed couple of semesters along with the everyday problems you run into in life.<br><br>I am out though, and am gonna start looking for a full time internship for the summer, and keep small part time hours at Circuit City so I can work there during school. Unless the internship can accommodate my classes.<br><br>I have a couple of places I am looking at but really whoever wants to pay me $10+ and is in software engineering I am down to try out so, I'm not picky at the moment.http://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Finals Finally Finished!http://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Finals Finally Finished!I have added a script I made while bored that will hold a file of a compilation of your ideas of what the Fundamental Experiences of Life should be. I explain more on the page, so please check it out and list a few things!<br><br>Click <a href='fundamental-experiences-of-life.php'>HERE</a> to view the Fundamental Experiences of Lifehttp://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Fundamental Experiences of Lifehttp://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Fundamental Experiences of LifeFor those of you with access my schedule for the fall semester of 2008 is up. The link is under the calendar page, a page that has not been added to in a while, after you login with the super secret password.<br><br>If you feel you should have the password but don't, or forgot the password because your memory is really bad and not because you just don't check the site enough, or care to remember it. Contact me via the <a href='contact-nicholas-tuck.php'> Contact Nicholas Tuck </a> page and I may give it to yah.http://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#New Schedulehttp://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#New ScheduleSo I have been going back and forth through my required courses vs required credits trying to figure out exactly what I need for my final year in college, my final year of school! And my latest degree audit is singing to me. <br><br>So to assume I pass all the classes I am currently taking, and to assume I pass all the classes I am signed up for next semester this is where I stand:<br><br>General Education Classes: DONE!<br>Computer Science Major: Need 2 courses: CSE361 & 300/400 level Course<br>Mathematics Minor: DONE!<br>Physics Minor: DONE!<br>Total Credits: 114: Credits Needed for Bachelor of Science Degree: 125<br><br>CSE361 - 3 credit hours... Sad.<br><br>So I will be taking 4 classes my final semester, two of which I need to pass, and two of which i do not need at all, however need the credits to add up to 125 and to be a full time student.<br><br>Hrmm So what classes should I take? <br>I am going to take Philosophy 110 because I really enjoyed Phil 101 and I'm registered for Phil 106 this upcoming semester. So that leaves one more... any suggestions? <br><br>Contact me via the <a href='contact-nicholas-tuck.php'>Contact Nicholas Tuck </a> page.http://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Degree Audithttp://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Degree AuditWell after three years of taking out extremely high amounts of money to pay for my wonderful teaching at the University of Nebraska Lincoln, I finally get a break.<br><br>Now that I am a poor married man, the government sees me as a perfect candidate for financial aid, something that did not feel necessary for me earlier in my career. I am now on the governments dime, taking my last year, Senior year, of college for free. Thats right, I am going to be paying 0 dollars for school this upcoming 08/09 year and it really is an amazing feeling.<br><br>So now that I understand the system, when I have a son I have to pick out a nice mail order bride for him whenever he's 17 so that he can experience 4 years of free college too. Oh yah, and have his first divorce at 22 but it will be worth it!http://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Grants!http://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Grants!Finally I have caught up on most of the stuff in my apartment, school, and work that I can finally relax a little. I still work 5 days out of the week and school 5 days out of the work, and see my wife just a few hours a day during the school week, but I have caught up on most things, and gotten stop class out of the way, to be able to enjoy my weekends with my wife, at least when I'm not working.<br><br>I have taken some photo's of the apartment but just have not taken the time to put them on the site yet, as I am want to relax and play some games and enjoy my new life with my new wife in our new apartment for a while. But I am still here, and I'm still learning many new things, so keep checking back!http://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Life relaxing a bit...http://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Life relaxing a bit...So I finally got my first speeding ticket... Went from a 35mph zone to a 25mph for 3 blocks until it was back to 35mph, which I was clocked going 38 in that 25, but he didn't pull me over until we were back in the 35 thats how ridiculous that was. Tried to unbutton my shirt a little but it didn't work out for me as I had hoped.<br><br>Took the S.T.O.P. class and honestly that class makes me to never want to get a ticket again. I would rather pay the full ticket and court fee's next time, because 9 hours of that was driving me nuts. But I figure theres no way of getting through life without getting a ticket, so I figured I would get it out of the way early, and now I don't have to worry about it anymore... Who gets more than one?http://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Speeding Tickethttp://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Speeding TicketWell it's almost a month into the new year and so much has been going on. After recently getting married Dec. 1st and moving in with my now wife, my life has been a retards version of a hay ride. I have school at odd hours now which I hope to update my schedule located <a href='calendar.php'> HERE </a> after you login. This makes my hours at circuit city bad, because they don't want to deal with thinking so they just schedule me 5-9 3 days a week, which isn't worth coming in for 4 hours. This now means I barley see Amanda who gets off work at 3:30 and gets home around 4-4:30 when I am leaving for work.<br><br>Plus I have all the new classes, new homework, new bills, new jobs, new place, new everything! So much so its been a month since I have really had time to get on here and update. But I am here to inform you all I am back, and plan on keeping everything updated as much as possible. Just gonna take some time to get back into it, but don't fret, I will be coming back.http://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#It's a New Yearhttp://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#It's a New YearFor those of you who have access to my class schedule, the same password for private calendar, and found in calendar page, I have uploaded my new school schedule.<br><br>I also have left the old one up so don't get confused, but I wanted to leave some kind of memory of the good old days.http://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Class Schedule Is Uphttp://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Class Schedule Is UpI have been super busy with everything including school, work, the apartment, and a laundry list of everything else.<br><br>Now to top it off finals week is finally here, Dec 17th - 21st, and I am... as prepared as I plan on being. I have a final Tuesday, two finals Thursday, and a final presentation/project due on Friday. <br><br>After this though, I plan on getting back to finishing the thank you's to all of you who experienced my wedding day with me and everything else!http://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Finals Weekhttp://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Finals WeekI have added the wedding gallery to my site! There are a lot of pictures that I have to gather, and I also need to make some arrangements to the sandbox to be able to order my pictures easier, so for now I am getting them up slowly and in random order! <br><br>More and More to come though, keep checking back in as I will be adding more and more as I get time to over the next month probably as I am still collecting the photos!<br><br>If you have some, please send them to me via MAIL as emails take a long time!http://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Wedding Pictures!http://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Wedding Pictures!I am officially a married man. The wedding went perfectly, maybe not flawlessly, but perfectly. One of the best days of our lives and we thank all of you who could make it and appreciate everyone for taking the time to experience the day with us. For those of you who could not make it, we understand you would have if you could.<br><br>There is a lot going on, as you could imagine, and so I have not been on here too much recently, but I do plan on gathering all the photo's that I can, going through them to choose some choice ones we enjoy a lot and get those on here. Soon after I plan on getting the rest of the photos on here. I am busy though so don't think I am purposely not putting your photos on here, I just don't have the time yet!!<br><br>http://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Married!http://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Married!I have finally moved pretty much all of my stuff into Amanda and my apartment! I am missing a hard line phone, and a rug, thats it, and I don't need those things, so I am basically all moved. Now unpacking is a separate issue. I got the home entertainment system set up, finally got my computer set up tonight, and home networked our computers, first time doing that really... We got a lot of kitchen stuff and got them in cupboard and drawers! Our room is pathetic and we have no food, those the only two down falls. All of our stuff is out in the living room / kitchen areas, so we got a tv and a blow up mattress for now but it will expand! <br><br>I will have pictures soon once we get all the boxes unpacked, and everything set up so it will look really spiffy, if you will, so check back soon for those! <br><br>Go No Crabs Go!http://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Moved Into Apartment!http://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Moved Into Apartment!I have updated the site fully to the new design. How does it look? I got rid of the chains, trying to make it look a little more professional but I also added the boxes in different sizes, so that it mixes things up. <br><br>Also at the bottom of the home/nick tuck page I have added links to the older versions... It is changing the CSS code, so its not exact old models, and it will get messed up over time, but you can still see the idea of each... Pretty cool stuff, let me know what you think.http://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#New Design and Old Designshttp://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#New Design and Old DesignsI am re-designing the site all together. It will still have the same basic principles, but I am making a few drastic changes that will add a degree of complexity to the site, but hopefully it will still be readable. But I am excited about it, just have to finish editing up some of the pages and then it will be live.<br><br>I am also trying to set it up so that you can view the previous versions as well as the current one, this is a pretty nice set up but is proving to be quite the complex assignment, but I think it's do-able. So look forward to that as well!http://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#New Design and Colors Soonhttp://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#New Design and Colors SoonI have added a picture gallery called Living Spaces, for all the places that Nicholas Tuck has lived starting now. I have dorm pictures up, and after I move into the apartment I will upload apartment pictures. There will be a lot more apartment pictures hopefully then dorm pictures I hope so check it soon!http://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Nick's Living Spaces Galleryhttp://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Nick's Living Spaces GalleryThis website is a new beta site that seems quite useful. Basically you can create an account and upload your music onto their server, where you can login to from anywhere on any computer with internet, and listen to the music you uploaded. No longer do you have to carry around your thumb drive with certain songs you want to play. Simply upload the songs or folders of songs and login anywhere.<br><br>Because it is a beta they are allowing an unlimited amount of music you can upload, but that is going to change whats they go live with an official version. But usually they keep all your songs on there for participating in the beta. So check it out at <a href='http://www.anywhere.fm'> Anywhere.FM </a>http://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Anywhere . FMhttp://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Anywhere . FMI have added quick links to the sides of purposeful pages. It has messed up my design a little but hopefully not enough for anyone to notice, but I like them, and seem like they may be useful. Let me know if these help you.<br><br>( These are called anchors, and they just are links to the certain pieces of information on the same page. They are used to navigate easier so you do not have to scroll down to read something in particular, or to read the head lines. )http://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Quick Linkshttp://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Quick LinksI have added a new element to the sandbox, actually a new look for the picture gallery. I have learned how to created dynamic XML files which this nifty flash picture viewer used. I edited the viewer tremendously, and made it to match my site, I think its awesome, what do you guys think? <a href='pictures.php'>Click Here to See</a>http://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Updated Picture Gallery Look!!!http://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Updated Picture Gallery Look!!!Amanda and I applied and got accepted within 12 hours for an apartment! It is going to be in a complex called the Black Sand Apartments, they are brand new (2 years old) and are really nice. We move in Nov 16th and I can't wait to move. It's a one bedroom with a large closet to please Amanda, and in home washer and dryer which was much a necessity I was told. As soon as we move in I will put up a new picture gallery and you all can see it.http://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#The Tuck Apartment!http://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#The Tuck Apartment!I have my class schedule on here now so everyone can see when I have class and there hopefully will be less complications when trying to contact me. It is only accessible from the calendar page (beneath the calendar their exists a link), only after you enter the password.http://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Class Schedulehttp://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Class ScheduleI made this news section an RSS feed, so if you use RSS feeds, you can add me, either through firefox, your email, or I use a nice ajax site, <a href='http://www.netvibes.com'>http://www.netvibes.com</a>. <br><br>Just add <a href='http://www.nicholastuck.com/rss.php'>http://www.nicholastuck.com/rss.php </a>I have the link on the front page for easy access as well.http://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#RSS Feedhttp://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#RSS FeedAmanda soon to be Tuck and I are registered at JCPenney's and Target! We also set it up for Kohls but I have not added anything though she may have the moment I came back to Lincoln. So get to buying gifts! Please?http://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Wedding Registryhttp://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Wedding RegistryI, Nicholas Tuck, have been invited to the same few honor societies every year, but this one is new and at first I thought this honor society really spelled honor incorrectly ( honour ). But apparently I am the guy who doesn't know thats an old English spelling of the word so maybe they should rethink my invitation.<br><br>I have yet to ever join one, but I list on my resume I am a member because if a money deposit is the only difference for my membership then I deserve the right to say I am a member. If anyone wants to send me $70 though I will join for the fun of it!<br>http://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Golden Key Honour Societyhttp://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Golden Key Honour SocietyThe server is acting really strange and running extremely slow. Normally the site runs smoothly, and quickly, so if it took a long while to load this page up, come back later today, or try back tomorow, and hopefully they fix their issue.http://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Slow Serverhttp://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Slow ServerI have the calendar up and running now. Took a little bit of time to style it to match my site, but not really that long, as I didn't spend a lot of time trying to make it look pretty, but starting from scratch I figured it out fairly well.<br><br>So check it every once in a while and see if there is any events I have posted for the upcoming months. And let me know how easy/hard it is to use. We are still experimenting with this as this is another item of the sandbox I have programmed.http://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Calendarhttp://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#CalendarI implemented a picture gallery on my site, a link can be found on the home page via a picture of my sister Callie, with her finger up George Washington's nostril. This is integrated into the sandbox and therefor everything you see and read is updated through the sandbox and takes no computer literate skill at all to update, delete, or add pictures.http://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Picture Galleryhttp://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Picture GalleryI got enough crap from everyone that is color blind asking me why my site was "pink" even though it was a nice dark red/gray mix so I changed it to green. Green is soothing and manly... http://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#New Colorhttp://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#New ColorI got a job at Circuit City, or well a friend of mine Dustin Rutledge got me a job at Circuit City, as an in store Firedog technician. http://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Circuit Cityhttp://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Circuit CityToday is my birthday! Turning 20, yah I'm still young. What are you getting me?http://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Birthdayhttp://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#BirthdayNicholas Tuck . Com is born! Not exactly sure what I will have on here, other than my portfolio and contact, those two I have under control but time will only tell on everything else.<br><br>I want Nick Tuck . com but some dumb company that buys domains has it. So I have to wait for a half a year for it to expire then I can have nick tuck . com as well.http://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#NicholasTuck.comhttp://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#NicholasTuck.comthis is a test by Nick Tuck Nicholas Tuck and Mr Tuck and Mrs Tuck and Everything Tuck and Nicholashttp://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Nick Tuckhttp://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Nick Tuckthis is another test by Nick Tuck Nicholas Tuck and Mr Tuck and Mrs Tuck and Everything Tuck and Nicholashttp://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Nicholas Tuckhttp://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#Nicholas Tucktests are good for uhttp://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#why so manyhttp://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#why so manyyour just reading, i have to go in here and type this stupid stuff<br><br>it's not quite as fun when your the designer and the information entererhttp://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#stop complaininghttp://www.NicholasTuck.com/news.php#stop complaining