{"id":213,"date":"2003-07-30T21:16:37","date_gmt":"2003-07-31T00:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=213"},"modified":"2003-07-30T21:16:37","modified_gmt":"2003-07-31T00:16:37","slug":"bikes-and-booleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=213","title":{"rendered":"Bikes and Booleans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">T<\/span>oday I<br \/>\ndid succesfully testdrive my new (rather, secondhand) bike. Plus the<br \/>\nhelmet. There&#8217;s still a lot to fix, besides cleaning up the chain and <em>derailleur<\/em>, but at least it was fun to drive the bicycle after abstaining for three years (I hear laughter in the background).\n<\/p>\n<p>Naturally I went faster than any other person driving bike. And<br \/>\ntalking about any other cyclists: most of them drive on the sidewalk.<br \/>\nWithout the obligatory helmet. You&#8217;re laughing at my helmet? <em>If you&#8217;re wearing a helmet, you&#8217;re entitled to use the road. If not, play with the kids on the sidewalk<\/em>. I keep telling myself.\n<\/p>\n<p>Over on the Olde Continent, there are no laws that force cyclists to wear helmets. First of all there are plenty of <em>bike lanes<\/em>.<br \/>\nAdditionally, every cyclist must have undergone a kind of a test.<br \/>\nNaturally, most car drivers are used to cyclists. Something I miss over<br \/>\nhere, where car drivers hang dangerously close behind the cyclists.\n<\/p>\n<p>On the programming front, I&#8217;m working slowly to bring advanced<br \/>\nheader filtering to RB. I&#8217;ve been looking at Thunderbird and noticed it<br \/>\nhad exactly the same dialog as I was planning to make for RB with the<br \/>\ndifference that the inboxes actually take care of the rules and<br \/>\nfiltering. In most other e-mailers, this isn&#8217;t the case (I&#8217;m not sure<br \/>\nof Sylpheed, so I should look that one up).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I did succesfully testdrive my new (rather, secondhand) bike. Plus the helmet. There&#8217;s still a lot to fix, besides cleaning up the chain and derailleur, but at least it was fun to drive the bicycle after abstaining for three &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=213\">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":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213"}],"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=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}