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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>
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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>
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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>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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<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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		<title>Sick in nice weather &#8211; Part eleventy5</title>
		<link>http://blog.danvoyles.us/2009/05/sick-in-nice-weather-part-eleventy5/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.danvoyles.us/2009/05/sick-in-nice-weather-part-eleventy5/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 19:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.danvoyles.us/?p=1123</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems to never fail. When the weather changes, usually for the good, the kids and I get sick. Naturally, that will fall to Emily as well since she is around us all the time. It can&#8217;t happen when there is snow on the ground, nor when it&#8217;s raining like it was for the past [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lately, things are off</title>
		<link>http://blog.danvoyles.us/2009/05/lately-things-are-off/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 21:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s just me, actually, I know it&#8217;s just me. I&#8217;ve just graduated after a long two years, my job hasn&#8217;t paid me, and now I&#8217;m searching for new employment. While I have been looking for more gainful employ for some time, it kind of takes on a new importance when you don&#8217;t have [...]]]></description>
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