http://blogs.whereistand.com/nick Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:41:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Tags: family,business,balance,life I'm writing on a subway train heading home to Brooklyn from a meeting in the Upper West Side. I never blog anymore... I miss it. I'm anxious to get back into it because it kept me in touch in ways ... http://blogs.whereistand.com/nick/696 Here's an odd bit that some PR guy just got a pat on the back for placing in the NY Times. If you give this some thought, you may agree that it's basically an admission by Google that their main "ranking" algorithm sucks. Why isn't "Google"Google's "Wikipedia rival"? But Google asserts that the ... http://blogs.whereistand.com/nick/688 A long time in more ways than one. If you've been to whereistand.com before, you'll notice some very significant changes. We didn't accomplish everything we set out to have done by this time, but we did accomplish some of the things we didn't. (Yes, that makes sense... read it again.) Well, we ... http://blogs.whereistand.com/nick/687 Case #1: Man talks to himself as he walks down the street (and is not "wearing" a mobile phone).... Verdict: Crazy. Excuse me... insane. Lonely, perhaps? Case #2: Man talks to himself as he kneels in front of a porcelain figurine.... Verdict: Communicating telepathically with the almighty being that created and watches over ... http://blogs.whereistand.com/nick/557 It does not take "faith" to believe in the absence of something, it takes healthy skepticism. How much faith do you have to have to not believe that a Great Cosmic Cat runs the universe? Not much, actually. Religion seeks to overturn the burden that goes with making a statement ... http://blogs.whereistand.com/nick/556 "Welcome back, Nick!" Gee, thanks! It's great to be back. Of course, I haven't really been gone, just slacking.  I'm jumping on the technologee pages and working on getting some issues up here. I think I'm going to kick off with something about that little thing you probably haven't heard about yet ... http://blogs.whereistand.com/nick/555 The Fidel Death Watch goes on for my people in captivity and my people in exile. But... who cares? What I really want to know is how many days are left until Bush is gone and the stink of his administration and the abuses of his party are gone with ... http://blogs.whereistand.com/nick/554 While I believe his approach is too strident to actually win over any converts, Richard Dawkins is a brilliant and resourceful genius in the effort to defend civilization against religion: As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion,-as ... http://blogs.whereistand.com/nick/553 Hillary's hat is in the ring... Let the games begin! She's managed to mirror Republicans in their initial support for Iraq and their subsequent rejection of it.... She's in the mainstream with Democrats on most issues.... But... I thought Americans, as a people, were too bigoted to ignore Lieberman's religion, and I think ... http://blogs.whereistand.com/nick/552 I'm in my mid-30's and I have waited (mostly patiently) most of those years to read a headline not unlike this one from today's Washington Post: Castro Reportedly in Grave Condition Well... not exactly. What I'm really holding out for is a headline that reads: U.S. President Signs Leave-Cuba-Alone Act I'm optimistic about a ... http://blogs.whereistand.com/nick/551