{"id":3523,"date":"2005-10-04T20:31:08","date_gmt":"2005-10-05T03:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/10\/04\/seattles-seasons-in-software\/"},"modified":"2019-12-18T16:24:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T00:24:15","slug":"seattles-seasons-in-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/10\/04\/seattles-seasons-in-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle&#8217;s Seasons in Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:7589,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.newsgator.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260226203514\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.newsgator.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 23:15:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-17 04:43:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-17 04:43:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7590,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.rassoc.com\\\/gregr\\\/weblog\\\/archive.aspx?post=783&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20071111143901\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.rassoc.com:80\\\/gregr\\\/weblog\\\/archive.aspx?post=783&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 23:15:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-17 04:43:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-17 04:43:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7591,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.ranchero.com\\\/netnewswire&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20210115155306\\\/https:\\\/\\\/ranchero.com\\\/netnewswire\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 23:15:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-17 04:43:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-17 04:43:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7592,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/blogsearch.google.com\\\/blogsearch?as_q=netnewswire+newsgator&amp;num=10&amp;hl=en&amp;c2coff=1&amp;btnG=Search+Blogs&amp;as_epq=&amp;as_oq=&amp;as_eq=&amp;bl_pt=&amp;bl_bt=&amp;bl_url=&amp;bl_auth=&amp;as_drrb=q&amp;as_qdr=&amp;as_mind=1&amp;as_minm=3&amp;as_miny=2005&amp;as_maxd=4&amp;as_maxm=10&amp;as_maxy=2005&amp;lr=&amp;safe=off&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.google.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7593,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.newsgator.com\\\/NetNewsWire.aspx&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;}]'><\/div>\n<p>The news that yesterday&#8217;s rumors are true and that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsgator.com\/\" title=\"NewsGator\">NewsGator<\/a> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rassoc.com\/gregr\/weblog\/archive.aspx?post=783\" title=\"Greg Reinacker's Weblog: NewsGator acquires NetNewsWire\">acquired<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ranchero.com\/netnewswire\/\" title=\"NetNewsWire\">NetNewsWire<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/blogsearch.google.com\/blogsearch?as_q=netnewswire+newsgator&amp;num=10&amp;hl=en&amp;c2coff=1&amp;btnG=Search+Blogs&amp;as_epq=&amp;as_oq=&amp;as_eq=&amp;bl_pt=&amp;bl_bt=&amp;bl_url=&amp;bl_auth=&amp;as_drrb=q&amp;as_qdr=&amp;as_mind=1&amp;as_minm=3&amp;as_miny=2005&amp;as_maxd=4&amp;as_maxm=10&amp;as_maxy=2005&amp;lr=&amp;safe=off\" title=\"Google Blogsearch for 'netnewsire newsgator'\">flying all over the &#8216;net<\/a> right now. NewsGator posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsgator.com\/NetNewsWire.aspx\" title=\"NewsGator: NewsGator &amp; NetNewsWire - Enabling Intelligent Information Delivery\">quick Q&amp;A about the acquisition<\/a>, which produced this little gem from NetNewsWire&#8217;s Brent Simmons:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <strong>Q:<\/strong> Is Brent moving to Denver? Or Tennessee?<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Greg:<\/strong> Yes!<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Brent:<\/strong> No, I\u2019ll be staying in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Greg:<\/strong> Darn it, I\u2019m 0 for 2. Denver\u2019s not such a bad place, you know. We have 4 seasons and everything!<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Brent:<\/strong> As a Macintosh user interface designer I like to simplify whenever possible. Four seasons is two too many. Seattle has two seasons, rainy and dry \u2014 anything more is too complex for new users. ;)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a Macintosh user interface designer I like to simplify whenever possible. Four seasons is two too many. Seattle has two seasons, rainy and dry \u2014 anything more is too complex for new users. ;)<\/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":[6,16,599],"class_list":["post-3523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-humor","tag-quotes","tag-weblogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523","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=3523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}