{"id":66,"date":"2011-07-20T00:24:54","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T00:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/great-things\/"},"modified":"2011-07-20T00:24:54","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T00:24:54","slug":"great-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/great-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Schneier is, to a certain class of geek (which includes me), regarded as a kind of Jedi Master (or &#8220;spiritual leader&#8221; if you are someone who thinks that means anything). His newsletter, blogs and articles are always full of insightful comments on every topic imaginable, despite being generally regarded as dealing with &#8220;Security&#8221;. As a perfect example, his<br \/>\n<a title=\"Social Security\" href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/02\/societal_securi.html\" target=\"_blank\">latest post<\/a><br \/>\nis not only fascinating, but highlights the inter-disciplinary nature of all disciplines. He&#8217;s writing a book on security, but from this introduction it could be classed under any non-fiction topic in the bookshops. This is what<br \/>\n<a title=\"Dirk Gently\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dirk_Gently\" target=\"_blank\">Dirk Gently<\/a><br \/>\ndescribed as &#8220;the fundamental interconnectedness of all things&#8221;. Aside from that, there is a strong smell of lavender coming through the window, which is very pleasant, and today I discovered<br \/>\n<a title=\"Sherlock\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b00t4pgh\" target=\"_blank\">Sherlock<\/a><br \/>\n. Wow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Schneier is, to a certain class of geek (which includes me), regarded as a kind of Jedi Master (or &#8220;spiritual leader&#8221; if you are someone who thinks that means anything). His newsletter, blogs and articles are always full of insightful comments on every topic imaginable, despite being generally regarded as dealing with &#8220;Security&#8221;. As [&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-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","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=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}