{"id":64,"date":"2007-11-06T01:30:45","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T05:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/2007\/11\/06\/miss-manners\/"},"modified":"2007-11-06T01:30:45","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T05:30:45","slug":"miss-manners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/2007\/11\/06\/miss-manners\/","title":{"rendered":"Miss Manners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just discovered why Windows has the largest slice of the market share: it&#8217;s so darn helpful.<\/p>\n<p>A few minutes ago, a little popup window appeared near my tray with a <a href=\"http:\/\/secretgeek.net\/image\/updates.PNG\">nice little message<\/a> about updates that were ready. I clicked, scanned the list of updates and deselected &#8220;Internet Explorer 7.0 for Microsoft Windows&#8221;, as any self-respecting computer user should.<\/p>\n<p>Another dialog appeared: &#8220;Updates that are not selected will not be installed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No duh&#8230; That&#8217;s why I deselected it. Thank you, Windows!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just discovered why Windows has the largest slice of the market share: it&#8217;s so darn helpful. A few minutes ago, a little popup window appeared near my tray with a nice little message about updates that were ready. I clicked, scanned the list of updates and deselected &#8220;Internet Explorer 7.0 for Microsoft Windows&#8221;, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}