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Change of Venue
August 25, 2014
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It was just a year ago that I was writing about closing down my consulting business and joining ownCloud as an employee.  And now I've moved on to new digs.

ownCloud was a great opportunity.  I really love open source software - software that is written and distributed with the source code and the ability to change and re-release that source code.  I've been a contributor to open source projects for a long while, and have even started my own.  So the opportunity to get paid to work on such a project was a great find for me.

Pocono Vacation
August 24, 2014

This summer we took a week long family vacation - the first in a long while - to the Poconos.

We packed our things the week before and headed out on Saturday morning to Ken and Kate's mountain house.  It only took a couple of hours to get there, and having been there before, we avoided the crazy gated entrance that had thwarted prior visits.

My Thoughts on Common Core
May 02, 2014
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I read a piece by Cory Doctorow called Standardized testing and schools as factories: Louis CK versus Common Core which talks about a comedian who dislikes the application of Common Core.

I'm not writing to defend Common Core, at least not fully.  People around our district that talk about it seem to have a limited understanding or a skewed perspective on what it is.  I think the problems with Common Core are often not what people most frequently surface.