Posted: January 9, 2010 at 6:10 pm by
Nathan Driskell
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Psychology
For the past 4 months I have been studying for the National Counselors Exam (NCE). I knew from the beginning it would not be easy, so I decided to study for it early. I researched the Internet and found a good book, Encyclopedia of Counseling by Howard Rosenthal. The book covers all content areas, and has over 1000 questions designed to give you a basic understanding of the format and content of the NCE. I knew, however, this one book was not enough to cover all aspects of the NCE, so I decided to use my class notes and go through all my textbooks from graduate school as well as search the Internet for flashcards and practice tests.
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Tags: LPC-Intern, nce, nce exam, Psychology
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Posted: November 2, 2009 at 11:17 pm by
Nathan Driskell
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Psychology
If you are studying for the National Counselor Examination (NCE), then I advise you check out the flash cards I have designed for the exam. I have created numerous cards designed to cover all the major content areas. The cards are complete, and total 541 cards. The cards are listed below, and were created using ProProfs, a free online flashcard site. Most of my cards come from the book, Encyclopedia of Counseling by Howard Rosenthal. If you are serious about passing the exam, I suggest you purchase this book, as it is the finest study guide I have ever seen. Almost all these cards come from the questions in this book. Check out the flash cards below.
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Tags: nce, nce exam, Psychology
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Posted: October 25, 2009 at 8:49 pm by
Nathan Driskell
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Computers Windows
Japan, land of the insane. If you live there, you may have seen ads for Windows 7 from Burger King. The Windows 7 Whopper is a whopping 7 slices thick, more then enough to get your mouth around. What’s worse, is the Windows 7 Whopper is around 1,000 calories, and costs around $8.50. I am not sure how one can even eat it without breaking it down into smaller parts. Who has a mouth large enough? Maybe Jack in the Box can provide a car jack. Get it?
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Tags: burger king, windows 7
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Posted: October 25, 2009 at 8:29 pm by
Nathan Driskell
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Computers Disorders Psychology
What is addiction? When is to much to much? How can one fully understand if they have an addiction? How does one stop an addiction, and if they succeed, are they still addicted? These are just a few of the many questions those who suffer from addictions ask. To be honest, we do not have the answers as of yet, however there is one component of addiction that is known; addiction negatively impacts one’s life.
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Tags: addiction, Internet, internet addiction
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Posted: October 25, 2009 at 7:30 pm by
Nathan Driskell
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Computers Web Design
A long time staple of the Internet shuts down tomorrow for good. Geocities, a free online website system, shuts down tomorrow with no intentions to return. All websites being hosted by Geocities will go down, with all data erased forever. Geocities has been around since the beginning of the Internet in 1994, allowing financially challenged individuals free websites. For many, tomorrow will be a dark day.
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Tags: geocities, web hosting
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Posted: October 25, 2009 at 7:11 pm by
Nathan Driskell
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Computers Social Media
Hulu, one of the Internet’s leading sources for online television shows and movies, plans to begin charging users next year. Hulu allows users to access many television shows and movies, offering high quality content. Hulu has been free to date, with no signup or members fees. Users could go to the site, search for a show and watch episodes for free. However, next year the owners of Hulu will begin to offer a pricing system, placing some of it’s content for paying customers only.
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Tags: hulu, online video
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Posted: October 18, 2009 at 4:19 pm by
Nathan Driskell
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Psychology Scam
To the right you will see George, a licensed Hypnotherapist. No, really, George is a Hypnotherapist. Just look at his eyes, the way they gaze back at you, pulling you in. With just a movement with his paw, you are under his control. He will make sure to help cure you of any unconscious material, as he is fully qualified. At least, according to the British Board of Neuro Linguistic Programming (BBNLP), the United Fellowship of Hypnotherapists (UFH) and the Professional Hypnotherapy Practitioner Association (PHPA).
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Tags: Cat, Hypnotherapist
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Posted: October 16, 2009 at 2:40 am by
Nathan Driskell
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Computers Politics
CNN reported today that Finland is to become the first nation to declare broadband access a legal right. Starting in July of next year, telecommunication companies will be required by law to provide internet access at speeds of at least 1 megabit per second. No other nation on earth currently has this right. Finland plans to up the speed to 100 megabits per second by 2015. While you may think this is a difficult task for Finland’s government to achieve, 95% of Finland already has online access, making Finland one of he most wired countries in the world.
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Tags: Internet, rights
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Posted: October 6, 2009 at 2:06 am by
Nathan Driskell
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Politics
Last week I wrote an article on Psychcomp.com regarding the Empire State Building displaying the Chinese colors on the 60th anniversary of Communism in China. In the past five days, I have had over 4,000 visitors from Taiwan try to access this article. At the beginning I would have bursts of 200-300 visitors every 3-4 hours, as direct traffic to this one article. I tried to determine where this traffic came from, but I could not figure it out. I decided to use Google Analytics to determine if I could find a source of this unknown traffic. What was odd, was there visitors had a 100% exit rate, and would visit no other pages or vote in the poll. This again was odd, as real people usually visit other pages and vote in polls. I was somewhat puzzled as to what this unknown traffic was, and was becoming concerned. The traffic was averaging to around 800 visits a day.
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Tags: china, communism, firewall
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Posted: October 5, 2009 at 10:20 pm by
Nathan Driskell
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Computers Politics Social Media
If you run a blog that takes in money or products from advertisers, be prepared to fully disclose this information beginning on December 1, 2009. The Federal Trade Commission on Monday, September 5th, stated on December 1st, all bloggers who review products must disclose any connection with advertisers, including in most cases the receipt of free products and if they were paid in any way by advertisers. The purpose of this is to allow readers to know the full relationship between a blogger and the advertiser. This helps to prevent an advertiser to spend money to pay off a blogger to give a positive review of a product. Now, if an advertiser has given a blogger a product, the blogger must make it public the nature of the relationship. For many advertisers and bloggers, this is bad news, as this could halt future products from receiving reviews from bloggers.
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Tags: blogs, full disclosure
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