{"id":21165,"date":"2011-06-09T11:30:34","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T17:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/09\/unblogged-bits-thu-9-jun-11-1130.html"},"modified":"2011-06-09T11:30:34","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T17:30:34","slug":"unblogged-bits-thu-9-jun-11-1130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/09\/unblogged-bits-thu-9-jun-11-1130.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Thu. 9-Jun-11 1130)"},"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. Credit Card Reform Worked: Prices Not Increased, Just Clearer<\/a> – But it INTERFERES with the FREE MARKET there for it was EVIL!!!!<\/li>\n
  2. Apple Has Finally Stuck A Dagger Into SMS. I Love It.<\/a> – Maybe I’m missing something here, but there are already IM apps that “kill” SMS. Apple is essentially creating one for the iOS crowd (only), but that’s actually more of a problem than a solution. Not that SMS is keen (other than being usable on even “dumb” phone) or not a huge ripoff (depending on your use of it), but let’s not get too crazy-happy here.<\/li>\n
  3. The Problem of Republican Idiots<\/a> – I do have a problem with calling a large group of people idiots. It seems intellectually lazy to me. On the other hand, when one looks at the particulars …<\/li>\n
  4. Risk\/(Be)nefit Deficiency<\/a> – “The issue is that cell phones involve radiation, and as we learned from the Fukushima disaster, radiation scares the bejeezus out of people. People don\u2019t understand it very well. To most, this news was as if every cell phone was found to have had a nuclear reactor inside it that is designed to specifically deliver radiation to their testicles.” Yes, read this.<\/li>\n
  5. Torchwood Exclusive Video: Rex Matheson Finds Miracle Day a Pain – Today’s News: Our Take | TVGuide.com<\/a> – Torchtastic!<\/li>\n
  6. Five Colorado wines to try right now – The Denver Post<\/a> – Will have to give these a try, esp the Canyon Wind. My experience with Colorado wines has been they are okay but nothing special, but it’s been a several years.<\/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 …. Credit Card Reform Worked: Prices Not Increased, Just Clearer – But it INTERFERES with the FREE MARKET there for it was EVIL!!!! Apple Has Finally Stuck A Dagger Into SMS. I Love It. – Maybe I’m missing something here, … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Thu. 9-Jun-11 1130)”<\/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-21165","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":11522,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/08\/blackberryyahoo_woes.html","url_meta":{"origin":21165,"position":0},"title":"Blackberry\/Yahoo woes","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 8-Aug-07 3:29pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Back in my old Treo days, I was able to communicate with directly with Yahoo Messenger by way of SMS -- there were special short codes for all my correspondents,...","rel":"","context":"In "My Computer"","block_context":{"text":"My Computer","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/my-computer"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":131072,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/13\/googles-incoherent-messaging-strategy.html","url_meta":{"origin":21165,"position":1},"title":""Google's Incoherent Messaging Strategy"","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 13-Jul-16 4:29pm","format":false,"excerpt":"That just about sums it up, as Google un-merges SMS and IM in its Hangouts tool. 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