{"id":109,"date":"2010-09-28T14:44:04","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T14:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/microshit-wordpress-charlie-brooker-george-orwell-and-electricity\/"},"modified":"2010-09-28T14:44:04","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T14:44:04","slug":"microshit-wordpress-charlie-brooker-george-orwell-and-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/microshit-wordpress-charlie-brooker-george-orwell-and-electricity\/","title":{"rendered":"Microshit, WordPress, Charlie Brooker, George Orwell and Electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some stuff:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>After spending far too much time trying to get some perfectly correct CSS to work in IE8 this afternoon, it&#8217;s nice to know that Microsoft is abandoning its lame blog-hosting service so that it can concentrate on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Microsoft_Kin\"><strike>The Kin<\/strike><\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/blog\/microsoft\/microsofts-surface-tablet-three-years-too-late\/7378\"><strike>The Tablet<\/strike><\/a>&#8230;something or other. Instead, they will be migrating their user-base to the free, open-source, everything-they-stand-against-but-works-better-than-any-of-their-shit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techflash.com\/seattle\/2010\/09\/microsoft_upgrades_spaces_to_wordpresscom_ends_its_blog_platform.html\">WordPress<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Charlie Brooker has written a lovely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2010\/sep\/27\/charlie-brooker-school-sports\" title=\"Charlie Brooker on School Sport\">description of why sport sucks<\/a> which is satisfyingly reminiscent of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orwell.ru\/library\/articles\/spirit\/english\/e_spirit\" title=\"George Orwell: The Sporting Spirit\">George Orwell&#8217;s discussion of &#8220;The Sporting Spirit&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Matt Taibbi, the disproportionately high quality journalist for Rolling Stone, has written a description of how the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/news\/17390\/210904\">astroturf &#8220;Tea Party Movement&#8221; came to be.<\/a> Read to the end.<\/li>\n<li>Walking from the bus-stop on Ridge down to our home is a surprisingly pleasurable experience. Not only because it is downhill, but because it gives a lovely perspective on our life: we live on a friendly street.<br \/>\nOn reaching our home tonight, I was surprised to see how many people were on their porches\/stoops; our neighbour, Denise, told me why:the power was out. So after shouting some swearwords, I stumbled into our dark house and tried to find the Megatorch [flashlight]. The Megatorch had evidently run out of batteries, because that is what they do, but I managed to get enough light to find the wine, and a glass, and rejoin our neighbours on the porch.<br \/>\nIt was a lovely evening, and I was really enjoying the outside air when the lights came back on. The cheer from the surrounding area was more impressive than anything provoked by any sporting event I can remember. We are all slaves to electricity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But the Internet is awesome, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some stuff: After spending far too much time trying to get some perfectly correct CSS to work in IE8 this afternoon, it&#8217;s nice to know that Microsoft is abandoning its lame blog-hosting service so that it can concentrate on The Kin&nbsp;The Tablet&#8230;something or other. Instead, they will be migrating their user-base to the free, open-source, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}