{"id":3433,"date":"2005-07-22T17:46:34","date_gmt":"2005-07-23T00:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/07\/22\/housekeeping\/"},"modified":"2019-12-17T10:21:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T18:21:53","slug":"housekeeping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/07\/22\/housekeeping\/","title":{"rendered":"Housekeeping"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:7919,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.360hacker.net\\\/articles\\\/07-20-2005\\\/robert-scoble-confirms-xbox-360-in-the-wild-is-real&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20081121050227\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.360hacker.net\\\/articles\\\/07-20-2005\\\/robert-scoble-confirms-xbox-360-in-the-wild-is-real\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 02:47:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 18:10:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 18:10:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7920,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.360hacker.net\\\/articles\\\/07-20-2005\\\/robert-scoble-confirms-xbox-360-in-the-wild-is-real\\\/#comment-800&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7921,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.urbandictionary.com\\\/define.php?term=dooced&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260310031156\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.urbandictionary.com\\\/define.php?term=dooced&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.urbandictionary.com\\\/define.php?term=dooced&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 18:10:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 18:10:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve finally gone in and made a few slight tweaks to my <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/about.shtml\" title=\"Eclecticism: Michael Hanscom\">about page<\/a>, adding a short list of other sites that I participate in and a few other bits and pieces here and there.<\/p>\n<p>One change that is more major in my head than anywhere else is the addition of a paragraph about my identity as &#8220;the Microsoft blogger&#8221;. I&#8217;ve resisted this until now, as I&#8217;ve always felt that: one, it&#8217;s a <em>very<\/em> small part of who I am, and I&#8217;ve never been entirely comfortable with looking like I&#8217;m trying to capitalize on the fracas; and two, it was a dumb mistake on my part that I keep hoping will evetually disappear into the great bit bucket of &#8216;net lore.<\/p>\n<p>However, given that the three primary posts about that event (<a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/even_microsoft.html\" title=\"Eclecticism: Even Microsoft wants G5s\">the picture<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/of_blogging_and.html\" title=\"Eclecticism: Of Blogging and Unemployment\">the day I was let go<\/a>, and my <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/fifteen_minutes.html\" title=\"Eclecticism: Fifteen Minutes of Fame\">wrapup from a few days later<\/a>) are consistently the most heavily trafficked pages on my site &#8212; lately, they&#8217;ve been getting a boost every time <a href=\"http:\/\/www.360hacker.net\/articles\/07-20-2005\/robert-scoble-confirms-xbox-360-in-the-wild-is-real\/\" title=\"360hacker.net: Robert Scoble confirms 'Xbox 360 in the wild' pics are REAL\">new information on the Xbox<\/a> leaks out, as one person or another feels compelled to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.360hacker.net\/articles\/07-20-2005\/robert-scoble-confirms-xbox-360-in-the-wild-is-real\/#comment-800\" title=\"360hacker.net comment: CoreDumped\">point to me<\/a> during the ensuing discussion &#8212; I figured it was time to just shrug my shoulders and admit that yeah, that&#8217;s me, and point to the pages in question.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still not <em>entirely<\/em> comfortable with that, but ignoring it in the hopes that it would go away hasn&#8217;t done much, and I&#8217;m not <em>so<\/em> determined to get away from it that I&#8217;d actually delete the posts in question&#8230;so, there they are.<\/p>\n<p>At least I didn&#8217;t end up inadvertently coining a new term for getting fired &#8212; &#8216;djwudi&#8217;d&#8217;, &#8216;michael&#8217;d&#8217;, or &#8216;hanscom&#8217;d&#8217; just doesn&#8217;t roll off of the tongue like &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=dooced\" title=\"Urban Dictionary: Dooced\">dooced<\/a>&#8216; does, anyway. ;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve finally gone in and made a few slight tweaks to my about page, adding a short list of other sites that I participate in and a few other bits and pieces here and there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2040],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-3433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3433","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=3433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}