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		<title>I&#8217;m back.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve quit my job at Bethany Press (effective April 30th). It&#8217;s time to be my own boss and determine my own future. I&#8217;m available for freelance and consulting work starting May 1st. Drop me an email if I can help you with your website, business, or digital marketing.]]></description>
		<link>http://nickciske.com/blog/2010/04/20/im-back-2/</link>
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		<title>I (heart) LOLCATS!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[They make me giggle inside like a little kid&#8230; and miss my kitties (one passed on, one is at my parents house due to the impending move). Classic&#8230; Amen! Sooooo true. I am electric&#8230; face to the sun&#8230; (Mike Pritzl &#8211; She Says Electric on Demonstrates Plastic And Elastic)]]></description>
		<link>http://nickciske.com/blog/2007/08/22/i-heart-lolcats/</link>
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		<title>Binary Knitting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I continue to be amazed at what people use my Binary Encoder for&#8230; How about a Binary scarf to keep you warm and geeky this winter?]]></description>
		<link>http://nickciske.com/blog/2007/07/25/binary-knitting/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;The Secret&#8221; is not so secret</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, &#8220;The Secret&#8221; is out&#8230; and it&#8217;s not a secret, it&#8217;s just a genius marketing ploy. Here&#8217;s the secret: The &#8220;Law&#8221; of Attraction. It&#8217;s been published and republished over the years&#8230; and &#8220;The Secret&#8221; is just the latest rehash. Ask (the universe), Believe (it will give you anything you want), Receive (whatever you asked for). [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nickciske.com/blog/2007/03/16/the-secret-is-not-so-secret/</link>
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		<title>Man marries, stops blogging. News at eleven.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey everybody&#8230; does anybody still read this? So I got married in October&#8230; thus the lack of posts. Not sure what else to say. We got a Canon Digital Rebel XTI for Christmas. Woo! It&#8217;s a gorgeous camera. Flying to India in a week. Yeah, it&#8217;s gonna be hot. Ummm&#8230; That&#8217;s all I&#8217;ve got for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nickciske.com/blog/2007/02/08/man-marries-stops-blogging-news-at-eleven/</link>
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		<title>1970 Asbury College Revival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I stumbled across this video today, and it&#8217;s fascinating. I&#8217;ve heard stories of revivals&#8230; Brownsville, Toronto, etc. but this video about the Asbury revival of 1970 captures something more&#8230; it stirs my soul in way the &#8216;wild&#8217; revival stories don&#8217;t. They prayed, God moved, people responded, and it spread through everyday folks, not revival preachers. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nickciske.com/blog/2006/10/04/1970-asbury-college-revival/</link>
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		<title>Haunting cover of &#8220;Hey Ya&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I like this better than the original (see below). Mat Weddle of Obadiah Parker &#8211; &#8220;Hey Ya&#8221; (Outkast Cover) Here&#8217;s an MP3 for your iPod: Read the lyrics. I&#8217;m sitting here trying to figure out what Outkast is trying to say with &#8220;Hey Ya.&#8221; He talks about sleeping around, the hookup culture, sex without connection, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nickciske.com/blog/2006/09/28/haunting-cover-of-hey-ya/</link>
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		<title>The Art of the Possible</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Can Eric Bonabeau&#8217;s Hunch Engine expand your mind? According to the company&#8217;s publicity materials, the Hunch Engine is software that uses evolutionary algorithms to breed solutions to science, engineering, business, or design problems&#8211;solutions that no human mind could have predicted. Icosystem claims that evolutionary algorithms expose ideas to a kind of natural selection, allowing users [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nickciske.com/blog/2006/09/26/the-art-of-the-possible/</link>
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		<title>Another reason not to shop at Wal-Mart</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s gun fires in Wal-Mart bathroom I bet it scared the *&#038;%$ out of the other guy! Yeah, I said it.]]></description>
		<link>http://nickciske.com/blog/2006/09/08/another-reason-not-to-shop-at-wal-mart/</link>
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		<title>Dedication</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How dedicated are you? Are you willing to go to great lengths to achieve your goals? Here&#8217;s an article about some highly dedicated crime lords. I know I wouldn&#8217;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 so they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nickciske.com/blog/2006/09/08/dedication/</link>
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		<title>The problem of hunger- is there a solution?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Give a man a handout&#8230; 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 any more&#8230;We don’t have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nickciske.com/blog/2006/08/02/problem-of-hunger/</link>
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		<title>How not to be search engine friendly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 indexing program) clues as to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nickciske.com/blog/2006/08/01/how-not-to-be-search-engine-friendly/</link>
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