{"id":2102,"date":"2004-01-07T15:15:58","date_gmt":"2004-01-08T07:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/07\/even-if-itwhat\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T14:56:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T22:56:08","slug":"even-if-itwhat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/07\/even-if-itwhat\/","title":{"rendered":"Even if it&#8230;what?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:12418,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/johnporcaro.typepad.com\\\/blog\\\/2004\\\/01\\\/fun_with_photo_.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250912132819\\\/https:\\\/\\\/johnporcaro.typepad.com\\\/blog\\\/2004\\\/01\\\/fun_with_photo_.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 22:57:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 22:57:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\n  This little \\$20 app is a must-have, even if it weren&#8217;t made by Microsoft.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Without meaning <em>any<\/em> offense at all to <a href=\"http:\/\/johnporcaro.typepad.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/fun_with_photo_.html\" title=\"Fun with Photo Story\">John<\/a>, this statement (and the accompanying implication that any application from Microsoft <em>is<\/em> a &#8216;must-have&#8217;) made me laugh and cringe equally.<\/p>\n<p>In all fairness, of course, I often (though not always) have much the same opinion about Apple applications and hardware, which may be just as cringe-inducing to people like John. ;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This little $20 app is a must-have, even if it weren&#8217;t made by Microsoft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2038],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-2102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102","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=2102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}