{"id":346,"date":"2005-04-21T22:36:30","date_gmt":"2005-04-21T20:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/?p=346"},"modified":"2005-04-21T22:36:30","modified_gmt":"2005-04-21T20:36:30","slug":"new-toy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/?p=346","title":{"rendered":"New toy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/greygriffin\/10286624\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos6.flickr.com\/10286624_f401d2f672_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/greygriffin\/10286624\/\">New toy<\/a> <br \/>Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/greygriffin\/\">Greygriffin<\/a>.<\/span><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"\">I&#8217;ve been planning for months to buy myself an Apple Powerbook laptop, and when the latest company bonus came in I finally gave myself permission. Of course, I had to have the best: although this is the smallest model (12&#8243; diagonal screen) so I can easily carry it around, it still has a large hard disk, wireless LAN and Bluetooth, and can read and write both CDs and DVDs.<\/p>\n<p>The plan has been that I&#8217;d use it to post far more often to this blog, and to do some programming experiments (especially learning a new programming language called Ruby).<\/p>\n<p>Another thing that should be arriving soon in the post is a miniature USB memory card reader for Secure Digital (SD) cards, the type our tiny Canon digital camera uses. So then I&#8217;ll be able to take photos with that camera and upload them from wherever I find a caf\u00c3\u00a9 with wireless Internet.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, because my phone (a Nokia 3230) has Bluetooth, I can use it as a modem and connect to the Internet with my Powerbook wherever I am. It&#8217;s not very fast then though &#8211; browsing works OK, but you see the images downloading one by one. Probably not very good for uploading megapixel images&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, a cool tool &#8211; I just have to learn how to get the most out of it. Should be fun!<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New toy Originally uploaded by Greygriffin. I&#8217;ve been planning for months to buy myself an Apple Powerbook laptop, and when the latest company bonus came in I finally gave myself permission. Of course, I had to have the best: although this is the smallest model (12&#8243; diagonal screen) so I can easily carry it around, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}