{"id":300,"date":"2012-06-10T22:50:30","date_gmt":"2012-06-10T22:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/?p=300"},"modified":"2012-06-10T22:50:30","modified_gmt":"2012-06-10T22:50:30","slug":"dusty-keys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/?p=300","title":{"rendered":"Dusty keys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">We got ourselves a big ol&#8217; Bomberman update; still not much in the way of groundbreaking new content, but personally, I&#8217;m just looking to spruce up the old content as best I can.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Well, I&#8217;ve had my new computer for about three weeks now. It took a while to settle in, no thanks to me clinging on to Windows XP for the longest time possible, but I&#8217;m adjusted nicely now. The machine cost less than the old one and has more hard drive space and memory than I know what to do with, so that&#8217;s a plus. Windows 7 isn&#8217;t too bad, but losing out on DOS functionality is a bummer, and the control panel is crazy unintuitive. I&#8217;m so used to having all my options laid out in front of me, rather than having to play Twenty Questions before I find what I want. Also, for whatever reason despite billing itself as a media centre, it doesn&#8217;t have a DVI port, so I can&#8217;t output my monitor onto my TV. Well <em>why even bother playing PC games now?!<\/em> I don&#8217;t play them to play them on a PC! &gt;:V<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I&#8217;m glad to have moved on, but I do miss it, though. Well, I don&#8217;t <em>physically<\/em> miss it &#8211; I want nothing to do with that unnecessarily huge piece of machinery clogging up an entire shelf &#8211; but I miss the DVI port that allowed TV-out display; I miss the operating system; and perhaps most of all, I miss the filth.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"WHERE THE MAGIC HAPPENS\" src=\"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/bl\/blog-oldkeyboard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I had around eight years of filth growing between those keys! I scrubbed it once in a blue moon, but not once did I take the sensible option of just bunging it in the dish washer (or more appropriately, chucking it in a canal). Filth aside, it was a good keyboard, and I&#8217;m the kind of person who hates to bin something if it&#8217;s still perfectly functional&#8230; but let&#8217;s face it, only I would be brave or foolish enough to be within ten feet of that thing. It&#8217;s the bin man&#8217;s problem now!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I have no damned clue what I was meant to be achieving with this blog post. Now why does that sound familiar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We got ourselves a big ol&#8217; Bomberman update; still not much in the way of groundbreaking new content, but personally, I&#8217;m just looking to spruce up the old content as best I can. Well, I&#8217;ve had my new computer for about three weeks now. It took a while to settle in, no thanks to me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,16],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-me-talk","tag-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}