http://www.dairiki.org/hammond/cable-lacing-howto
http://www.tecratools.com/pages/tecalert/cable_lacing.html
These show examples of the two most common, a clove hitch, and half-hitch.
This one is probably better, but there is a lot of other stuff to go through.
http://www.qwest.com/techpub/77350/77350.pdf