{"id":1447,"date":"2005-02-27T22:25:53","date_gmt":"2005-02-27T22:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2005\/02\/27\/my_life_as_a_techno-idiot_and_why_constants_suck.html"},"modified":"2005-02-27T22:25:53","modified_gmt":"2005-02-27T22:25:53","slug":"my_life_as_a_techno-idiot_and_why_constants_suck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2005\/02\/27\/my_life_as_a_techno-idiot_and_why_constants_suck.html","title":{"rendered":"my life as a techno-idiot (and why constants suck)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, i managed to find wacky behavior in technology.  I went to create a blog entry this morning and only half of it uploaded.  It didn&#8217;t save to database and crash like normal &#8211; it just saved half.  It was weird.    I flipped out (like always) and whimpered (like always).  <a href=\"http:\/\/bopuc.levendis.com\/weblog\/\">Boris<\/a> once again came to the rescue.<\/p>\n<p>It appears as though my comments template has a lastn of 5134 (which y&#8217;all exceeded).  And it appears that my Atom template is trying to find 1M entries (which i haven&#8217;t written yet).  What&#8217;s up with the constants?  Why do we need constants in code.  ::groan::<\/p>\n<p>The wireless in my apartment still isn&#8217;t working right even though my angelic roommate has spent a bazillion hours trying to hack the firmware to amplify the antenna and now he&#8217;s trying to buy a new antenna because it can&#8217;t reach to the other end of the apartment.  I feel completely clueless.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone around me is obsessed with camera phones and i still can&#8217;t figure out how to take a goddamn picture and get it to send.  Worse: i have zero motivation to take a picture.<\/p>\n<p>I realized something this evening: in terms of techno-capability, i&#8217;m your generic user and completely techno-clueless&#8230; I am not capable of using any interface and i think that the black box should just work but it never does.  The only difference is that i adopt early and pay attention to what people are doing, even if i think it&#8217;s completely pointless.  But i don&#8217;t have the mind of a technologist and i can&#8217;t figure out how anything works (or, as my roommate likes to tell me, i refuse to try).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, i managed to find wacky behavior in technology. I went to create a blog entry this morning and only half of it uploaded. It didn&#8217;t save to database and crash like normal &#8211; it just saved half. It was weird. I flipped out (like always) and whimpered (like always). Boris once again came [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techno-doom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}