{"id":267,"date":"2006-01-10T10:02:27","date_gmt":"2006-01-10T10:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=267"},"modified":"2006-01-10T10:02:27","modified_gmt":"2006-01-10T10:02:27","slug":"thoughts-before-retiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=267","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts before retiring"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reading the last few mails and scan the last few feeds before heading to bed, I have just caught myself having the most ridiculous thought: Wouldn’t it be nice to get a job in a place where they use Macs? I mean I have just secured a job in a great company in a new country and I have a thought like this? The underlying cause is the fact that like many a fence-jumper before me, I am really loving the Mac experience – not the ubergeek hype that goes with Powerbook ownership or the Holy Grail of attending MWSF (if you need to ask, you ain’t invited) – just the ease with which I can do my mail, surfing and ‘ordinary bloke who’s a bit interested in computers and technology’ stuff. A great example of the whole Mac thing is Quicksilver<\/a> – a ‘unified, extensible interface for working with applications, contacts, music, and other data.’ For those Mac users who, like me, are driven nuts by locked-down menu-bloated Windows machines in their workplaces, Quicksilver is the kind of thing you think about when clickety-clicking umpteen times to simply add a to-do to a text file on your USB thumb drive. And so to bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading the last few mails and scan the last few feeds before heading to bed, I have just caught myself having the most ridiculous thought: Wouldn’t it be nice to get a job in a place where they use Macs? I mean I have just secured a job in a great company in a new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}