{"id":262,"date":"2001-11-16T18:49:18","date_gmt":"2001-11-17T02:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=262"},"modified":"2019-11-26T08:07:53","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T16:07:53","slug":"xp-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/11\/16\/xp-sucks\/","title":{"rendered":"XP sucks!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16735,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/mirrors.meepzorp.com\\\/xpsucks&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20051228123433\\\/http:\\\/\\\/mirrors.meepzorp.com:80\\\/xpsucks\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 13:57:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 23:01:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 23:01:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2001\/11\/graphics\/xpsucks.jpg\" title=\"XP sucks!\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"XP sucks!\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2001\/11\/graphics\/xpsucks-thumb.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>I got sent this image (click for a larger version) tonight. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/mirrors.meepzorp.com\/xpsucks\/\" title=\"Who says London's trendy East End isn't as creative as it used to be?\">the site it was posted at<\/a>, this is a truely genius piece of work &#8212; someone actually managed to scale up to wherever the sign is and alter it. In other words, this isn&#8217;t just some joker with Photoshop at work &#8212; this is a real-world hack job. Just wonderful&#8230;goes to show that there still are some truly cool people in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a truely genius piece of work &#8212; someone actually managed to scale up to wherever the sign is and alter it. In other words, this isn&#8217;t just some joker with Photoshop at work &#8212; this is a real-world hack job.<\/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-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","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=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}