{"id":1604,"date":"2003-08-12T09:58:10","date_gmt":"2003-08-12T23:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/12\/three-hours-later\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T13:57:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T21:57:16","slug":"three-hours-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/12\/three-hours-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Three hours later&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have noticed that I&#8217;ve put a surprising number of posts up for this early in the day. That&#8217;s simply because I&#8217;ve spent the past three hours watching Windows XP chew through security updates, software patches, and other sundry changes to the OS. Running a web browser was about as intense an activity as I wanted to tax the machine with during that process.<\/p>\n<p>Now, <em>three hours later<\/em> I can finally get to work doing what they pay me for &#8212; but that&#8217;s only because I got sick of watching a stalled progress bar, force-quit the Windows Update program, and told it to sod off. My security updates were done anyway, it was just chewing on some less critical patches, so I&#8217;m not too worried.<\/p>\n<p>Frustrated, and quite willing to toss the computer out a window, if only I had one.<\/p>\n<p>But not worried.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, three hours later I can finally get to work doing what they pay me for &mdash; but that&#8217;s only because I got sick of watching a stalled progress bar, force-quit the Windows Update program, and told it to sod off. My security updates were done anyway, it was just chewing on some less critical patches, so I&#8217;m not too worried.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2040,2043],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-1604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-personal","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}