{"id":826,"date":"2004-04-12T15:42:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-12T15:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=826"},"modified":"2010-07-14T14:37:58","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T13:37:58","slug":"826","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/826\/","title":{"rendered":"A bad technology day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A bad technology day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/computer.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This cartoon (from Rana and Peter&#8217;s birthday card to me) seems to perfectly sum up the last hour of my life, although this time the grief wasn&#8217;t due to the baffling internal mysteries of Windows.<\/p>\n<p>The culprit was my Sony RCD-W3 hi-fi CD recorder which I bought from Richer Sounds at Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Today was the first time I&#8217;d needed to burn off a CD copy with the Sony, so I foolishly imagined that the operation would be breeze (what with me owning a dedicated machine for the job).<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, the useless bag&#8217;o&#8217;shite was having none of it. After shunning the first three CDs offered for recording, the Sony was only prepared to acknowledge the existence of a Maxwell CDR. And then it changed its mind. And then it recognised it again.<\/p>\n<p>Realising that I&#8217;d better move sharpish before the Sony changed its mind again, I hit the record button and then waited. And waited some more. I could go on but I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re already bored with this story.<\/p>\n<p>Suffice to say, after an hour of faffing about I&#8217;ve given up trying to burn the CD.<\/p>\n<p>Fearing the dreaded mantra of &#8220;we&#8217;ll send it off for repair&#8221;, I rang up Richer Sounds and to their massive credit seem amenable to simply swapping the machine with no fuss.<\/p>\n<p>Respect. I&#8217;ll sort it next week.  And probably bore you with the details later&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bad technology day This cartoon (from Rana and Peter&#8217;s birthday card to me) seems to perfectly sum up the last hour of my life, although this time the grief &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/computer.gif","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sQI7P-826","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1929,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions\/1929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}