http://nickciske.com/blog Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:51:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en They make me giggle inside like a little kid… and miss my kitties (one passed on, one is at my parents house due to the impending move). Classic… Amen! Sooooo true. I am electric… face to the sun… (Mike Pritzl - She Says Electric on Demonstrates Plastic And ... http://nickciske.com/blog/2007/08/22/i-heart-lolcats/ I continue to be amazed at what people use my Binary Encoder for… How about a Binary scarf to keep you warm and geeky this winter? http://nickciske.com/blog/2007/07/25/binary-knitting/ Well, “The Secret” is out… and it’s not a secret, it’s just a genius marketing ploy. Here’s the secret: The “Law” of Attraction. It’s been published and republished over the years… and “The Secret” is just the latest rehash. Ask (the universe), Believe (it will give you anything you want), Receive (whatever ... http://nickciske.com/blog/2007/03/16/the-secret-is-not-so-secret/ Hey everybody… does anybody still read this? So I got married in October… thus the lack of posts. Not sure what else to say. We got a Canon Digital Rebel XTI for Christmas. Woo! It’s a gorgeous camera. Flying to India in a week. Yeah, it’s gonna be hot. Ummm… That’s all I’ve got for ... http://nickciske.com/blog/2007/02/08/man-marries-stops-blogging-news-at-eleven/ I stumbled across this video today, and it’s fascinating. I’ve heard stories of revivals… Brownsville, Toronto, etc. but this video about the Asbury revival of 1970 captures something more… it stirs my soul in way the ‘wild’ revival stories don’t. They prayed, God moved, people responded, and it spread through everyday ... http://nickciske.com/blog/2006/10/04/1970-asbury-college-revival/ I like this better than the original (see below). Mat Weddle of Obadiah Parker - “Hey Ya” (Outkast Cover) Here’s an MP3 for your iPod: Read the lyrics. I’m sitting here trying to figure out what Outkast is trying to say with “Hey Ya.” He talks about sleeping around, the hookup culture, sex without connection, ... http://nickciske.com/blog/2006/09/28/haunting-cover-of-hey-ya/ Can Eric Bonabeau’s Hunch Engine expand your mind? According to the company’s publicity materials, the Hunch Engine is software that uses evolutionary algorithms to breed solutions to science, engineering, business, or design problems–solutions that no human mind could have predicted. Icosystem claims that evolutionary algorithms expose ideas to a kind of ... http://nickciske.com/blog/2006/09/26/the-art-of-the-possible/ A Nashua man faces a felony reckless conduct charge after his gun discharged in a Wal-Mart bathroom, striking the ceiling and scaring an employee in the next stall. Man’s gun fires in Wal-Mart bathroom I bet it scared the *&%$ out of the other guy! Yeah, I said it. http://nickciske.com/blog/2006/09/08/another-reason-not-to-shop-at-wal-mart/ How dedicated are you? Are you willing to go to great lengths to achieve your goals? Here’s an article about some highly dedicated crime lords. I know I wouldn’t have the dedication to do this: Four prisoners in an El Salvador jail hid cellphones, a phone charger and spare chips in their bowels ... http://nickciske.com/blog/2006/09/08/dedication/ Give a man a handout… and he eats for a day. Teach him to farm and he (and his country) eats for a lifetime. ‘ We used to have a big farm – five hectares. We sold it one hectare at a time to pay to live. Now we can’t cultivate ... http://nickciske.com/blog/2006/08/02/problem-of-hunger/ When you build a web site, especially an online store, it pays to be search engine friendly. This means that you make sure your site is easy to crawl, has a unique and descriptive title for each page, and that you use semantic markup to give the spider (search engine ... http://nickciske.com/blog/2006/08/01/how-not-to-be-search-engine-friendly/ The interent * internet is full of unintentional irony. ALL CONTENT MUST BE WRITTEN IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE using propper spelling and grammar. Source * Double irony? http://nickciske.com/blog/2006/07/20/irony-abounds-on-the-internets/