{"id":435,"date":"2007-03-07T22:12:59","date_gmt":"2007-03-07T22:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/all-of-the-things\/"},"modified":"2007-03-07T22:12:59","modified_gmt":"2007-03-07T22:12:59","slug":"all-of-the-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/all-of-the-things\/","title":{"rendered":"All of the things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Putting on some mellow bird-calming music, such as Zero-7, really does mellow little Humph&#8217;s head. She doesn&#8217;t care that Zero-7 are merely a cheap pastiche of Air..she likes Air! To her it&#8217;s all nice.<br \/>\nSo as I type she&#8217;s drifting off to sleep on the arm of the sofa after successfully removing and playing with a particularly fluffy bit of feather. She takes such good care of her feathers.<\/p>\n<p>Michele is away and we&#8217;re both sulking as a result. I think Humph blames me.<\/p>\n<p>The amount of work I&#8217;ve been doing has started making me feel like I&#8217;m in prison recently. Apart from work all I&#8217;ve done is go to a pub within five minutes walk of the sofa and drink too much, which in the long run makes me feel worse. <\/p>\n<p>I had loads of stuff I wanted to blog about, but of course I didn&#8217;t do it at the time so I&#8217;ve forgotten. Instead here are some things I knew already but have been forced to re-learn recently:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When doing anything in the kitchen or bathroom that is time consuming, don&#8217;t go and &#8220;check your email&#8221; while it&#8217;s going on. Email checking leads to web clicking, which leads to wikipedia\/bloglines\/boing-boing\/space_ghetto, which leads to anything from no tea, to a house fire or flood. The flood one happened quite a few years ago and the house fire one has been only narrowly avoided 3 times in the last year.<\/li>\n<li>Doing two part-time jobs actually means doing two full time jobs.<\/li>\n<li>Working with Windows is an utterly miserable way to spend your life.<\/li>\n<li>In the words of Sean Lock, &#8220;don&#8217;t give anybody your address ever, ever, ever&#8221;. The same goes for your phone number. Phones are so wrong &#8211; when you call someone it&#8217;s like shouting &#8220;Oi! It&#8217;s convenient for <i>me<\/i> to talk to <i>you<\/i> now, so pay attention, stop whatever your doing, no matter how engrossing or intellectually demanding it is, and talk to me for bloody ages whilst I talk at you.<\/li>\n<li>Birds are amazing.<\/li>\n<li>Oracle is a huge monster that is best avoided.<\/li>\n<li>PostgreSQL should only be used by computer scientists who don&#8217;t have the need for something fast, reliable and that actually works in the field for massive amounts of real data. Use MySQL.<\/li>\n<li>Margaret Thatcher really was as evil as you remember. Anyone who doesn&#8217;t agree should be entitled to the best psychiatric care available.<\/li>\n<li>If you arrange to meet someone in the pub, on their birthday, at 8pm, don&#8217;t get there at mid-day. You won&#8217;t be much of a positive asset to the social function when the friend arrives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Putting on some mellow bird-calming music, such as Zero-7, really does mellow little Humph&#8217;s head. She doesn&#8217;t care that Zero-7 are merely a cheap pastiche of Air..she likes Air! To her it&#8217;s all nice. So as I type she&#8217;s drifting off to sleep on the arm of the sofa after successfully removing and playing with [&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-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","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=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}