{"id":1990,"date":"2006-09-17T13:17:55","date_gmt":"2006-09-17T19:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/book\/book-em-dan-o\/"},"modified":"2006-09-17T13:17:55","modified_gmt":"2006-09-17T19:17:55","slug":"book-em-dan-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/book\/book-em-dan-o\/","title":{"rendered":"Book &#8217;em, Dan-o"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"mine\"><p>This week, working on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/book\/the-book\/\">the book<\/a>, I had alternating periods of productivity and backsliding as I cut out some of the text I had written. Early in the week, I struggled with a chapter on computer utilities. I want this book to be practical and I don&#8217;t regard many of Windows&#8217; utilities practical for my needs. But I recognize that some of those utilities are very important among people supporting other users, especially on a network. I risk disappointing the more technical reader either by leaving out some tools or putting them in with a caveat to the more general reader, whom I risk insulting by suggesting this may be &#8220;more than you need.&#8221; But, hell, there are things here that I&#8217;ve never, ever needed.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, I had great fun with the Photo Gallery chapter. This new application contains many cool features for working with photographs, as well as some maddening inconsistencies between it and other applications. <\/p>\n<p>Next week, another dreadline, er, deadline. <span class=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, working on the book, I had alternating periods of productivity and backsliding as I cut out some of the text I had written. Early in the week, I struggled with a chapter on computer utilities. I want this book to be practical and I don&#8217;t regard many of Windows&#8217; utilities practical for my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/book\/book-em-dan-o\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Book &#8217;em, Dan-o<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}