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Hi. I'm Nick Olejniczak and this is where I write about technology, the web and other bits of general geekery. I'm a web developer who loves Ruby on Rails, web standards and personal publishing. Interested in working together? Get in touch.

 

Burgos HDR

June 26, 2009 at 4:51pm
Burgos HDR

Same cathedral as here.

 

Eiffel Tower

June 24, 2009 at 5:21pm
Eiffel Tower

Paris, France.

 

Cathedral

June 07, 2009 at 11:25pm
Cathedral

The Burgos Catherdal in Burgos, Spain.

 

Chicago at night

May 31, 2009 at 2:02am
Chicago at night

Out the hotel window.

 

Kites

May 25, 2009 at 11:34pm
Kites

Gretchen flies a single-liner.

 

Spring gardening

May 24, 2009 at 4:47am
Spring gardening

A bowl of basil.

 

Chicago Botanical Gardens

May 18, 2009 at 4:26am
Chicago Botanical Gardens

Great place for a Sunday stroll.

 

Driving Range

May 12, 2009 at 1:36am
Driving Range

With new King Cobra SZs, thanks Mom and Dad.

 

Glacier Hills Mother's Day Walk

May 11, 2009 at 5:20am
Glacier Hills Mother's Day Walk

I thought the light filtering through the trees was just fantastic.

 

Dew

May 07, 2009 at 3:53pm
Dew

It rained this morning.

 

32 miles for 32 years

May 03, 2009 at 1:50am
32 miles for 32 years

Amy snacks about 10 miles into a 32 mile birthday ride for me.

 

Weekend tree planting

May 01, 2009 at 4:21pm
Weekend tree planting

Last weekend.

 

WiFi decktime

April 24, 2009 at 3:02pm
WiFi decktime

Getting to be that time of the year.

 

Twitter Notification

April 14, 2009 at 4:12am
Twitter Notification

Part of the ongoing Gmail+Twitter Arduino notification project. (Thanks to iPotion for the Twitter logo.)

 

The Gmail checker takes shape

March 27, 2009 at 2:58am

Very blinky.
 

Swingline

March 26, 2009 at 10:32pm
Swingline

Stapler in the sun.

 

Craggy stump

March 25, 2009 at 3:27am
 

South Florida

February 16, 2009 at 4:06pm
South Florida

Great vacation.

 

Ice crystals on a still night

January 28, 2009 at 6:00am
Ice crystals on a still night

The beautiful columns of light in the sky are caused by the way ice crystals reflect and refract lights coming up from the ground. There was no wind at all tonight, so the columns lasted a really long time. See it on black. Check out the hard-science explanation if you like, or you can check out a more dramatic version that they’ve been experiencing in Latvia lately.

 

At least he didn't wear his cheesehead

January 25, 2009 at 5:32pm

It’s the inauguration of our 44th president. Everyone is wearing their formal attire. You are wearing your Packers hat.
Someone wearing a Packers hat to the inauguration
Anyone know who this guy is? I see no other professional sports teams represented in the VIP section. There’s a fully-zoomable Gigapan interface available for the whole scene if you’d like to investigate further.

 

Thai Pavillion

January 23, 2009 at 2:58am
Thai Pavillion

Behind the fuzzy berry things.