Author: Nate LaClaire

Nate LaClaire is a Christian millennial Full-Stack Web, Mobile, and VR Developer and Makerspace Manager who writes about faith, life, and intentional living. He is owner of Netwalker Internet Services and manages the UMA Collaboratory.
January 23, 2008

Perspective

ACTOR HEATH LEDGER FOUND DEAD IN NEW YORK CITY Those were the words that flashed in the corner of my computer screen at a few minutes after 5 pm Tuesday afternoon. I was working on a project for a client and had Outlook running when a FoxNews.com update arrived in my email Inbox. The message stopped me cold. It is amazing how quickly thoughts can […]

October 9, 2007

The Ultimate Gift

A couple weeks ago I finally went to FYE and bought The Ultimate Gift on DVD, after asking at the Bible Bookstore and being told that they had no plans of getting it. I watched it with my family the next night. I must say that if the trailer had been more honest, I probably wouldn’t have watched the movie. That might possibly have been […]

October 8, 2007

Fred Thompson’s Tonight Show Interview

I like this guy more every time he opens his mouth. Clips from his interview with Jay Leno: Part 1 (the video has been removed from YouTube) Part 2 (the video has been removed from YouTube) Also, Fred’s response to HillaryCare

October 7, 2007

Microformats

I’ve been reading up on Microformats, especially hCard and hCalendar, which are XHTML equivalents of the vCard and iCalendar standards, respectively. Michael McCracken explains the usefulness of Microformats like this: With Microformats, you can send & publish things like events, business cards, and product reviews as meaningful XHTML that a person can read in a browser, but a program can import, index and remix as […]

October 3, 2007

Online couple cheated with each other

  A married couple who didn’t realise they were chatting each other up on the internet are divorcing. Online couple cheated with each other | The Daily Telegraph   No joke – a couple cheated on each other over the Internet. When the pair decided to meet, they discovered that they were already married. Now they are divorcing over the “infidelity” – after finding out […]

October 3, 2007

Wisdom from an old man

One of my favorite lines from the movie Secondhand Lions is spoken by Hub, the character played by Robert Duvall: Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most[…] that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil; and I […]

September 27, 2007

A Vision of HillaryCare

The Telegraph (a British news publication) offers a wonderful example of what we have to look forward to in the US if Hillary Clinton gets her way: “I want to warn other smokers. We have paid our National Insurance stamps all our lives and now we are being shut out of the NHS.” See the full story, Smoker refused operation on broken ankle, for full […]

September 23, 2007

Dave Ramsey on Socialism in America

In this radio clip from July 2007, Dave takes on socialism in America, promotes the flat tax, explains why he calls himself a “sanctified capitalist,” and tells us how to protect ourselves from socialism. I heard this clip on the radio and am excited that it’s been made available online. Good stuff!

September 13, 2007

What happened to customer service?

Browsing on Forbes.com today, I found an article from last December about the fact that today’s luxury retailers are placing a greater emphasis on customer service than they have before.   The staff is friendly and eager to educate any customer about the store’s wares regardless if they are an A-list celebrity or an everyday shopper. From Top Shops 2006 – Forbes.com   This got […]