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Troubleshooting Unicode in the Khan Academy exercise framework

I started playing around with Khan Academy’s exercise framework. If I am successful in figuring this out sufficiently, the efforts would be applied for teaching a foreign language (Thamil) rather than teaching math. I had gotten the basic case figured out — a single-question, question-answer exercise. From there, I inserted Thamil characters and saved the HTML doc into UTF-16 encoding, and by then, I experienced serious errors. Fortunately, it didn’t take much more than learning the basics of Unicode and a little poking around to figure it out, fix the issue, and get a better understanding of how it all fits together.

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Health insurance for the self-employed

One thing that I’ve been looking into recently is health insurance.  Being over the age of 26, I can’t piggyback on my parents’ health insurance plan.  Having most recently worked outside of the U.S., I can’t use the COBRA plan to extend previous health insurance plans.

When you are self-employed, you have a few options.  You can

  1. Remain uninsured
  2. Find insurance through employment
  3. Find insurance through your state or the federal program if you have a pre-existing condition
  4. Buy your own insurance
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First post

Hi, everyone.  This is the inaugural post of my blog.

This will be my first foray into blogging — I’m excited!  Do give ample feedback if you can!  Does something work / not work for you?  Do you have followup questions?  etc.

Let me explain the title, “Sequenced Thoughts from Computer / Science”: