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		<title>Alltel can suck it</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 17:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, when I was late with my cellular bill some time ago, it was because I was poor. The bill would come due and I would have to make payment arrangements because we often wasted money or consistently spent more than our income. There are no excuses for that. It&#8217;s simple economics (from which politicians [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PC work? Not for you.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following story is true to my best recollection, and happened a couple of years ago. I  shy away from working on personal computers for one major reason &#8211; people who are sue-happy. A PC is a machine, it breaks mechanically as well as by software. Had a woman who asked me to look at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Primary Center is a failure, or is it NCLB?</title>
		<link>http://blog.danvoyles.us/2009/11/the-primary-center-is-a-failure-or-is-it-nclb/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 03:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For many years in a row now the Mount Vernon Primary Center has failed to reach the NCLB standards. This leads to an option for us to send our kids to other schools in the area, however the superintendents of the districts have allegedly colluded to not accept students from any of the other&#8217;s districts. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Today, I was offered &#8216;dream job&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://blog.danvoyles.us/2009/11/today-i-was-offered-dream-job/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And hell yes I accepted the offer. As of December 7th I will be working for School Center in Carbondale. The drive will suck a little, but the joy of doing what I want every day and being a part of a normal job will be awesome. I miss the routine of going into work, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OMFG &#8211; Peanuts are illegal now?</title>
		<link>http://blog.danvoyles.us/2009/08/omfg-peanuts-are-illegal-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:41:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christ. Apparently I can&#8217;t send Amaya or Erich to school with a peanut butter sandwich now because the Primary Center is now a &#8216;nut-free zone&#8217;. I have many wisecracks about that assumption, given this idiotic decision, but I&#8217;ll hold them for now. I know that some people are allergic to nuts, fine. Sucks to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another school year</title>
		<link>http://blog.danvoyles.us/2009/08/another-school-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, another school year has begun. The kids are enjoying their time, and I think sissy is taking to the learning better than she had previously. Things are definitely looking up in that department. The sad part for me is that I&#8217;m not going back to school. I have my degree, a few certificates, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Self-congratulations</title>
		<link>http://blog.danvoyles.us/2009/06/self-congratulations/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.danvoyles.us/2009/06/self-congratulations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.danvoyles.us/?p=1183</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[El yay. I finally got my AAS degree in the mail today. I now have proof that I spent two years fine-tuning my IT skills with official curriculum. Rend Lake definitely has a great program in my opinion. The instructors go out of their way to help you learn material. While at RLC I picked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computing Basics III</title>
		<link>http://blog.danvoyles.us/2009/06/computing-basics-iii/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.danvoyles.us/2009/06/computing-basics-iii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a reprint of an article from my Ask a Geek column in the Mount Vernon Register-News. It is written for a general audience, and I hope you like it. You&#8217;re sitting in front of your computer after booting into the operating system and cleaning out your extra startup junk. Now what do you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computing Basics II</title>
		<link>http://blog.danvoyles.us/2009/05/computing-basics-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.danvoyles.us/2009/05/computing-basics-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 13:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a reprint from my Ask a Geek column that appears weekly in the Register-News. It is written for a general audience, and I hope you enjoy it. Once your computer has booted into the operating system, most people think it is just sitting there waiting for you to tell it to do something. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computing Basics I</title>
		<link>http://blog.danvoyles.us/2009/05/computing-basics-i/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.danvoyles.us/2009/05/computing-basics-i/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 18:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a reprint that originally appeared in my &#8216;Ask a Geek&#8217; column for the Register-News. This is written for a general audience, and I hope you enjoy it. Your computer is stupid. Yes, for all the wonderful tricks you can accomplish with it, your computer only understands two things &#8217;1&#8242; and &#8217;0&#8242;. On and [...]]]></description>
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