{"id":2181,"date":"2004-01-28T14:48:59","date_gmt":"2004-01-29T06:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/28\/here-we-go-again\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T15:28:29","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T23:28:29","slug":"here-we-go-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/28\/here-we-go-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Here we go again&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11881,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.business2.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260216152511\\\/http:\\\/\\\/business2.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 20:23:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 20:23:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11882,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.business2.com\\\/b2\\\/web\\\/dumbest&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20051231040954\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.business2.com:80\\\/b2\\\/web\\\/dumbest&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 20:23:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 20:23:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11883,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/boingboing.net\\\/2004_01_01_archive.html#107531884857936212&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20110710150229\\\/http:\\\/\\\/boingboing.net\\\/2004_01_01_archive.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 20:23:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 20:23:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11884,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.cnn.com\\\/2004\\\/TECH\\\/ptech\\\/02\\\/05\\\/bus2.feat.dumbest.moments\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20230131115255\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.cnn.com\\\/2004\\\/TECH\\\/ptech\\\/02\\\/05\\\/bus2.feat.dumbest.moments\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 20:23:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 20:23:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.business2.com\/\" title=\"Business 2.0\">Business 2.0<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.business2.com\/b2\/web\/dumbest\" title=\"Business 2.0: 101 Dumbest Moments in Business\">101 Dumbest Moments in Business<\/a> for 2003:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <strong>36: Think they&#8217;ll buy the April Fool&#8217;s joke thing again? Nah, better go with the bit about the top-secret location.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  Michael Hanscom, a temp worker at Microsoft&#8217;s in-house print shop, is fired after posting to his blog a photo that showed workers at the facility taking delivery of several Apple G5 computers. His supervisor insists that Hanscom was fired not for showing the company relying on the product of its chief rival, but for revealing the location of one of its shipping and receiving departments.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2004_01_01_archive.html#107531884857936212\" title=\"101 Dumbest Moments in Business\">BoingBoing<\/a><\/cite>)<\/p>\n<p><ins>Update:<\/ins> CNN has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/TECH\/ptech\/02\/05\/bus2.feat.dumbest.moments\/index.html\" title=\"Dumb and dumber moments in tech\">summarized this article<\/a> (along with the my mention). Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/04\/suit-measurements#comment-5800\" title=\"Comment from Jon\">Jon<\/a> for pointing it out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think they&#8217;ll buy the April Fool&#8217;s joke thing again? Nah, better go with the bit about the top-secret location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[460,13,25],"class_list":["post-2181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-15-minutes-of-fame","tag-life","tag-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181","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=2181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}