{"id":522,"date":"2004-07-01T05:53:05","date_gmt":"2004-07-01T05:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/01\/ItsAWeirdWorld.aspx"},"modified":"2004-07-01T05:53:05","modified_gmt":"2004-07-01T05:53:05","slug":"its-a-weird-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/01\/its-a-weird-world\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a weird world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>I&#8217;m always amazed at how far the on-line world has come in the last ten years.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>I&#8217;m even more amazed at how much I assume everyone else is amazed by that.&nbsp; <\/P><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI>I live in a special little world called <A href=\"http:\/\/www.sjchamber.com\/\">Silicon Valley<\/A>.<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>I live&nbsp;in a&nbsp;world&nbsp;where everyone has an e-mail address (and most have three).&nbsp; <\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>I live in a world where I look suspiciously at any business that doesn&#8217;t have a web site (even <A href=\"http:\/\/www.netaddiction.com\/\">Internet addiction centers<\/A> have web sites).<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>I live in a world where anything that can&#8217;t be <A href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\">Googled<\/A> doesn&#8217;t exist.<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>I live in a world where most things that can be <A href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\">Googled<\/A> still don&#8217;t exist (<A href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/autos\/dream\/jato.asp\">killed in a rocket car?<\/A>&nbsp; yeah, right).<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>I live in a world where WWJD stands for What Would <A href=\"http:\/\/ei.cs.vt.edu\/~history\/Jobs.html\">Jobs<\/A> Do?<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>I live in a world where people will buy a <A href=\"http:\/\/www.mini.com\/com\/en\/general\/homepage\/index.jsp\">Mini<\/A> because it&#8217;s compatible with their <A href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ipod\/\">iPod<\/A>.<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>I live in a world where a reality distortion field isn&#8217;t science fiction, it&#8217;s protected by the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080517184039\/http:\/\/www.usdoj.gov\/crt\/ada\/adahom1.htm\/\">ADA<\/a>.<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>I live in a world where the coolest computer company only has a fraction of the market and makes most of their money selling MP3 players.<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>I live in a world where a project doesn&#8217;t end when you ship, it ends when you get the T-Shirt.<\/LI><\/UL><br \/>\n<P>Ah&#8230; paradise.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m always amazed at how far the on-line world has come in the last ten years. I&#8217;m even more amazed at how much I assume everyone else is amazed by that.&nbsp; I live in a special little world called Silicon Valley. I live&nbsp;in a&nbsp;world&nbsp;where everyone has an e-mail address (and most have three).&nbsp; I live [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,24],"tags":[94],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technet","category-webweird","tag-internet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}