{"id":1138,"date":"2006-06-29T17:19:25","date_gmt":"2006-06-29T20:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2006-06-30T17:17:03","modified_gmt":"2006-06-30T20:17:03","slug":"the-old-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1138","title":{"rendered":"The old new"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">W<\/span>ay earlier, Alfons reminded that some old video clips can now be found at YouTube. Particularly the ones I remember when I was -uh- young (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=838\">my life as a former B-Boy<\/a>). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H5WXcDgF_WY&#038;search=Rock%20Steady%20Crew\">Right<\/a>. And other stuff, you don&#8217;t want to hear about.\n<\/p>\n<p>I decided to throw out my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=786\">Microsoft Wireless mouse<\/a> and buy a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.logitech.com\/index.cfm\/products\/details\/US\/EN,CRID=2150,CONTENTID=5002\">Logitech trackball<\/a> <sup>1<\/sup>. Actually, I&#8217;m not really throwing it out (I can think of other purposes for that thing, like Christmas tree decoration). I&#8217;ve used trackballs before and they work pretty good as long as you don&#8217;t have too sweaty fingers.\n<\/p>\n<p>Hey: I see that the Ayaan Hirshi\/Verdonk row <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/europe\/5131240.stm\">has brought down the Dutch government<\/a>, which means that there will be new elections in October.\n<\/p>\n<p><small>Update: Talking about the old new, I see that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netscape.com\">Netscape<\/a> has (officially) changed from old to fashionable (i.e., Digg-like)<br \/>\nUpdate 2: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/52660\">Bonus discussion at Metafilter about fall of Dutch cabinet<\/a><br \/>\n<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way earlier, Alfons reminded that some old video clips can now be found at YouTube. Particularly the ones I remember when I was -uh- young (my life as a former B-Boy). Right. And other stuff, you don&#8217;t want to hear &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1138\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}