{"id":6148,"date":"2012-04-14T07:55:16","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T07:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2012\/04\/14\/links-for-2012-04-14\/"},"modified":"2012-04-14T07:55:16","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T07:55:16","slug":"links-for-2012-04-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2012\/04\/14\/links-for-2012-04-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2012-04-14"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/technology\/technology\/2012\/04\/microsoft_word_is_cumbersome_inefficient_and_obsolete_it_s_time_for_it_to_die_.single.html'>Microsoft Word is cumbersome, inefficient, and obsolete. It&#8217;s time for it to die. &#8211; Slate Magazine<\/a>\n<p>Nowadays, I get the same feeling of dread when I open an email to see a Microsoft Word document attached. Time and effort are about to be wasted cleaning up someone&#8217;s archaic habits. A Word file is the story-fax of the early 21st century: cumbersome, inefficient, and a relic of obsolete assumptions about technology. It&#8217;s time to give up on Word. It took years for me to get to this point. I came of age with Word. It&#8217;s the program I used to write my college papers, overcoming old-fashioned page counts with its magical font-switching technology: Times, tightly justified, if the writing was running too long; airily monospaced Courier if things were too short. In those days, Word was an obedient and resourceful servant. Today, it&#8217;s become an overbearing boss, one who specializes in make-work.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.sadanduseless.com\/2012\/04\/texts-from-my-dog\/'>Texts From My Dog<\/a>\n<p>Emmy is jealous.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Word is cumbersome, inefficient, and obsolete. It&#8217;s time for it to die. &#8211; Slate Magazine Nowadays, I get the same feeling of dread when I open an email to see a Microsoft Word document attached. Time and effort are about to be wasted cleaning up someone&#8217;s archaic habits. A Word file is the story-fax&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2012\/04\/14\/links-for-2012-04-14\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2012-04-14<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}