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		<title>Can Knowing How To Program Make You a Better Person?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Codecademy has gotten some press about their Code Year project to teach you to write code, i.e., software. It doesn&#8217;t seem to be aimed at people on the typical computer science and engineering track but rather as a a basic literacy skill for anyone. I forget sometimes I didn&#8217;t set out to be a programmer. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.marcstober.com/blog/2012/01/11/can-knowing-how-to-program-make-you-a-better-person/</link>
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		<title>Honesty about Modesty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many of you have probably seen the Israeli news story about eight year old Na&#8217;ama Margolese being called a &#8220;whore&#8221; and spat on walking past a haredi (ultra-Orthodox) synagogue on her way to school. In case you haven&#8217;t, it&#8217;s on YouTube with subtitles. (I&#8217;d also recommend reading how &#8220;they messed with the wrong crowd&#8221; for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.marcstober.com/blog/2012/01/01/honesty-about-modesty/</link>
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		<title>Introducing Siddur Ruach Shabbat: Temple Emanuel&#8217;s New Family Service Prayerbook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cross-posted to JewishBoston.com. This Saturday morning at Temple Emanuel&#8217;s lay-led Ruach Shabbat family service we&#8217;ll be unveiling our new prayer book, Siddur Ruach Shabbat. The product of over a year of collaboration between the synagogue&#8217;s volunteers and professional staff, the book aims to be &#8220;just right&#8221; by capturing the spirituality of a traditional Shabbat morning [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.marcstober.com/blog/2011/12/06/introducing-siddur-ruach-shabbat-temple-emanuels-new-family-service-prayerbook/</link>
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		<title>Why Occupy Wall Street Will Fail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a mistake to conflate size with evilness and blame everything on &#8220;corporations.&#8221; When people complain that mandated health care is bad for small business, no one points out that what they&#8217;re really saying is &#8220;I&#8217;d rather keep my profits than give my employees health care like a larger business would.&#8221; No one is complaining [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.marcstober.com/blog/2011/10/07/why-occupy-wall-street-will-fail/</link>
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		<title>Adonai Tz&#8217;va&#8217;ot: The Lord of &#8220;Hosts&#8221;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the Family Service Siddur I wanted a translation for &#8220;Adonai Tzeva&#8217;ot&#8221; that people wouldn&#8217;t need an English dictionary to understand like the venerable yet archaic &#8220;Lord of Hosts.&#8221; Siddur Sim Shalom actually leaves it untranslated, so I posted a question for the creative people in the OpenSiddur Facebook Group: Anyone have a favorite translation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.marcstober.com/blog/2011/09/09/adonai-tzvaot-the-lord-of-hosts/</link>
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		<title>iPhone Navigation a Bumpy Road</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Photo credit: Trey Ratcliff on Flickr under a CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 license (thanks for sharing!) I left behind my paper maps and GPS device on our recent trip to California, navigating with my iPhone 4 instead. We got where we needed to go, but the iPhone was limited and frustrating for a state-of-the-art smartphone. We [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.marcstober.com/blog/2011/07/30/iphone-navigation-a-bumpy-road/</link>
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		<title>YAACSDTBAB</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yet Another Article Comparing Software Development To Building A Bridge: What Happened to Software Engineering? &#8211; Developer.com This is just the latest one example; liberally paraphrasing, it&#8217;s always the same: &#8216;Bridge building is so cheap and easy, there&#8217;s no excuse for programming not to be even cheaper and easier.&#8217; Seems to me this meme is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.marcstober.com/blog/2011/07/29/yaacsdtbab/</link>
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		<title>Fun With Hebrew Fonts: Liturgical Use of Meteg</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the Family Service Siddur I’m editing, we set the Hebrew text in Times New Roman1 using Microsoft Word, because this was a volunteer project and we all had that software available, and because that font is actually quite nice at rendering Hebrew with vowels as needed for liturgy. A reviewer noticed an error in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.marcstober.com/blog/2011/07/06/fun-with-hebrew-fonts-liturgical-use-of-meteg/</link>
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		<title>I finally got an iPhone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I find the whole &#8220;cult&#8221; of Apple&#8211;people waiting in line at the mall and other such nonsense&#8211;to be a turn-off. It&#8217;s kept my attention enough to notice that, with the latest releases of their iOS operating system (version 4 and the just-announced version 5), they&#8217;ve actually created a great smartphone. So, when my HTC Incredible [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.marcstober.com/blog/2011/06/20/i-finally-got-an-iphone/</link>
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		<title>The last thing I&#8217;ll say about PC&#8217;s vs. Macs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently started using an iPad. As an old-school (80&#8242;s and 90&#8242;s) Mac user who has been using Windows for the last 15 years, I&#8217;ve been struggling to express what it is about Apple&#8217;s UI that I&#8217;m having trouble getting used to. I realized it was an issue of the &#8220;clutter-discoverability trade-off&#8221; that John Cook [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.marcstober.com/blog/2011/06/03/the-last-thing-ill-say-about-pcs-vs-macs/</link>
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