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		<title>How to open Apple&#8217;s iWork Pages documents without Pages</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because file-conversion is always exciting, and because I found this obscure little tip buried way down in a forum thread &#8212; but it&#8217;s golden &#8212; I figured it needs to be published more plainly: When you need to open an Apple Pages document but you don&#8217;t have the Pages application itself, try this, regardless of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Loss of Brown&#8217;s Woods: A Letter to Scott Russell Sanders</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 01:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Review of A Conservationist Manifesto, by Scott Russell Sanders (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009). A version of this review first appeared in print in The Common Review 8, no. 3 (Winter 2010): 42-44. (TCR unfortunately does not make its content available online). See below for a letter to the editor taking issue with this review, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nineteenth-century literary props</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements, feelings and characters of ordinary life which is to me the most wonderful I have ever met with. The big bow-wow I can do myself like any one going; but the exquisite touch which renders commonplace things and characters interesting from the truth of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eustace Tilley</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been reported that the New Yorker magazine&#8217;s mascot, the character &#8220;Eustace Tilley,&#8221; is based on an illustration from the Encyclopædia Britannica&#8217;s famous eleventh edition. But it hasn&#8217;t been easy to find a online view of that original illustration. Until now. For some interesting comment on the origins and identity of Tilley (and The New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media Mistakes You Can Avoid</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently led a seminar on the subject of &#8220;Mistakes You Can Avoid on Facebook and Twitter&#8221; for people in the nonprofit and ministry sector. I wish you all could have been there &#8212; but we&#8217;ll have to settle for sharing my one-page handout. Naturally, there&#8217;s lots more to say about each of these topics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter Mad Lib</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve just had a little fun on Twitter &#8212; with a collective game of Mad Libs. I think you&#8217;ll recognize the base text here, and this is the finished product. &#8220;We hold these truths to be CRUSTY, that all TAXIDERMISTS are created MAUVE, that they are endowed by their DOG with certain FORGETFUL Rights, that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on (and at) HighEdWeb 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:04:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I attended the HighEdWeb Association&#8217;s 2009 conference in Milwaukee (October 4–7) and benefited from the experience. Here are some of my reflections. This post will definitely remain under progress as I add and revise. People usually say that conferences are good for professional development. I agree &#8212; but for me, they&#8217;re also product development, too. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music Picks 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In what&#8217;s becoming an annual tradition, I have asked derek becker and Jim Boyd for music recommendations so that I could get some fresh music in my collection. Here are the items they&#8217;ve recommended (with notes as I acquire some of them): derek: Battles Lake, Oh, the Places We&#8217;ll Go [acquired] Robert Plant &#38; Alison [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music Picks 2007</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In June of 2007, I asked respected friends for music recommendations so that I could get some fresh music in my collection. Both derek becker and Jim Boyd gave fascinating tips, and I bought eight of the albums they plugged: Chenier, Clifton, 60 Minutes with the King of Zydeco Field Music, Tones of Town Griffin, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Setting all the clocks</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Miscellany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Things I Want]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here are all the clocks I have to reset twice a year for daylight-saving time: microwave range coffeemaker bathroom clock Lucy&#8217;s radio Lucy&#8217;s sound machine our radio our sound machine Jon&#8217;s three watches Ann&#8217;s two watches classic clock on piano thermostat timer for stair lights space heater Toyota cordless phone base 2 digital cameras WordPress [...]]]></description>
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