{"id":20901,"date":"2011-04-30T23:31:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T05:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/30\/unblogged-bits-sat-30-apr-11-2331.html"},"modified":"2011-04-30T23:31:01","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T05:31:01","slug":"unblogged-bits-sat-30-apr-11-2331","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/30\/unblogged-bits-sat-30-apr-11-2331.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Sat. 30-Apr-11 2331)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. <\/p>\n
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  1. Fuzzy Reboot: Reviewing a Science Fiction Classic Retold (GeekDad Weekly Rewind)<\/a> – Oooooooh …<\/li>\n
  2. Donald “China is raping this country” Trump’s line of hideously ugly clothes are made in China<\/a> – “… but we should just lie back and profit from it, those of us who can.”<\/li>\n
  3. Is Microsoft’s consumer failure actually developer failure?<\/a> – “So this part is obvious: all the people who are using Apple’s free tools or Google’s free tools or Linux’s free tools to make cool stuff can ship it to consumers, while Microsoft’s developers are a different breed, the stuck, the legacy…working for big companies who have to do it this way.” Working with MS licensing for software and development tools is almost always godawfully expensive, not to mention opaque as to what you actually need to purchase. It’s a huge headache I wish we could, as a company, avoid.<\/li>\n
  4. Something Blue<\/a> – Heh.<\/li>\n
  5. Dan Pashman: Obama Could Do Better: Birth Certificate Is a Poor Effort at Forgery<\/a> – I expect to see this forwarded by email, in all seriousness, from various sources in 5 … 4 … 3 … 2 …<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. Fuzzy Reboot: Reviewing a Science Fiction Classic Retold (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) – Oooooooh … Donald “China is raping this country” Trump’s line of hideously ugly clothes are made in China – “… but we should just lie back and … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Sat. 30-Apr-11 2331)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12555,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/25\/outlook_google_hmmmmm.html","url_meta":{"origin":20901,"position":0},"title":"Outlook + Google = Hmmmmm …","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 25-Mar-08 8:48pm","format":false,"excerpt":"There have been lots of half-way and somewhat kludgy sync tools between Microsoft's Outlook and Google Mail to date (including the ongoing disaster which is the Google Calendar Sync). 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