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	<title>more ramblings of a retired teacher</title>
	<link>http://ramblings.runeman.org</link>
	<description>commenting (maybe ranting) on education - even my own</description>
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		<title>Changes</title>
		<link>http://ramblings.runeman.org/?p=49</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2016 19:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Algot</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
		<guid>http://ramblings.runeman.org/?p=49</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	
	Starting today (March 11, 2016) new blog posts will be posted at another location: Runemanations.
	It is an attempt to consolidate and, frankly, I don&#8217;t like the limited styling control this &#8220;SiteBlog&#8221; software offers.
	I hope you&#8217;ll shift your attention there.
	Thanks for reading. 

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		<title>Inner Geek / Outer Geek</title>
		<link>http://ramblings.runeman.org/?p=48</link>
		<comments>http://ramblings.runeman.org/?p=48#respond</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2015 12:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Algot</dc:creator>
		
	<category>F/LOSS</category>
		<guid>http://ramblings.runeman.org/?p=48</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Sometimes things go wrong, especially if you are in a hurry.
	I recently decided to move from the Kubuntu long term support (LTS) version 14.04 to the current 15.04 so I could see the new Plasma in action and get the benefits of the underlying Frameworks 5.
	I started upgrading with the Muon upgrader tool and things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marginal Notes</title>
		<link>http://ramblings.runeman.org/?p=47</link>
		<comments>http://ramblings.runeman.org/?p=47#respond</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2015 18:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Algot</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
		<guid>http://ramblings.runeman.org/?p=47</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	The journal I write for myself gets more attention from me than any of my blogs. The blogs are public while the journal is a mix of stuff that mostly does not become public.
	Sometimes bits from the journal rise out of the junk because I (foolishly) think that someone in the &#8220;public&#8221; might be interested [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Standards vs. Standardization</title>
		<link>http://ramblings.runeman.org/?p=46</link>
		<comments>http://ramblings.runeman.org/?p=46#respond</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2015 18:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Algot</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
		<guid>http://ramblings.runeman.org/?p=46</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	One of my peer-mentors on Twitter posted the following message.
	
	I felt challenged to think about it. Here is:
	**My Take**
	
	A standard is a target. For a simple example, a standard might be like an archery target, for which hitting the center from a specified distance is a success. Hitting a bull&#8217;s-eye from ten yards might be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Words - Neomenia</title>
		<link>http://ramblings.runeman.org/?p=45</link>
		<comments>http://ramblings.runeman.org/?p=45#respond</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2015 12:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Algot</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
		<guid>http://ramblings.runeman.org/?p=45</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	One of the things I do for fun is wordplay. Sometimes it is puns, but another activity is an online Word of the Day forum at Internet Book Database of Fiction. Today&#8217;s word:
	neomenia
	Definitionsfrom The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
	    n. The time of new moon; the beginning of the month.    [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Explore</title>
		<link>http://ramblings.runeman.org/?p=44</link>
		<comments>http://ramblings.runeman.org/?p=44#respond</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2015 20:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Algot</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
	<category>Education</category>
	<category>coding/programming</category>
		<guid>http://ramblings.runeman.org/?p=44</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Turtle Python
	Back in the days when we used the AppleII at the middle school where I taught, we used a package called Delta
Drawing which had some of the features of Logo, the language developed by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert to help develop early programming skills, even for elementary students. For a while Logo was
popular, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Woodwork</title>
		<link>http://ramblings.runeman.org/?p=43</link>
		<comments>http://ramblings.runeman.org/?p=43#respond</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2015 20:23:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Algot</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
		<guid>http://ramblings.runeman.org/?p=43</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Some of my time since the last post has been working on a different kind of post, making mortise and tenon joints in vertical &#8220;posts&#8221; and horizontal cross pieces, frames for storage spaces in my cellar workshop. Mostly, I putter. Sometimes I get the itch to do more.
	A recent rain storm was the impetus for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free vs. Freedom - An &#8220;Announcement&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://ramblings.runeman.org/?p=42</link>
		<comments>http://ramblings.runeman.org/?p=42#respond</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2014 19:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Algot</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
		<guid>http://ramblings.runeman.org/?p=42</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Another episode in the &#8220;Free vs. Freedom&#8221; series.
	I just got an email from the educational website Edutopia describing a Microsoft program designed to entrench itself further in the school systems and the homes of students.
	
Dear Edutopia Subscriber: Did you know your students can get Microsoft
Office at no cost? Thanks to Microsoft Student Advantage, schools that
purchase [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pandoc to HTML</title>
		<link>http://ramblings.runeman.org/?p=41</link>
		<comments>http://ramblings.runeman.org/?p=41#respond</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2014 17:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Algot</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
		<guid>http://ramblings.runeman.org/?p=41</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	For a while, I&#8217;ve been puzzled by the failure of pandoc to produce accented characters correctly in HTML output.
	More research may have found the answer to bad html conversion of accented characters:https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/844
	By adding the &#8211;ascii option to my pandoc command, the html contains the correct accents.
	(Sorry that the display of coding is ugly on this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The UNIX Way</title>
		<link>http://ramblings.runeman.org/?p=40</link>
		<comments>http://ramblings.runeman.org/?p=40#respond</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2014 18:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Algot</dc:creator>
		
	<category>F/LOSS</category>
		<guid>http://ramblings.runeman.org/?p=40</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	GNU/Linux really benefits from the UNIX style of storing configuration information in simple text file format instead of binary blobs.
	I maintain my own website and a couple others using the FTP program gftp and have bookmarks set up for the couple of sites to which I routinely connect. I think it is a bother to [...]]]></description>
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