{"id":561,"date":"2004-05-21T16:52:34","date_gmt":"2004-05-21T19:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=561"},"modified":"2004-05-21T16:52:34","modified_gmt":"2004-05-21T19:52:34","slug":"the-planet-of-channel-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=561","title":{"rendered":"The Planet Of Channel 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>J<\/span>ust this morning I tried to go through the videos, shot over at <a href=\"http:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/\">MSDN&#8217;s &#8216;Channel 9&#8217;<\/a>. After cancelling a hundred of  dialogs displaying security certificates (<em><strong>!!!<\/strong><\/em>), I managed to get through some of the videos (note, they&#8217;re all WMVs).  For some kind of reason, the &#8216;happy we&#8217;re here!&#8217; videos made me laugh, hysterically, that is.\n<\/p>\n<p>The movies raise the impression that there are no deadlines at BigCos. No wonder that everybody wants to work at Micro<em>soft<\/em> (<strong><em>!!!<\/em><\/strong>).\n<\/p>\n<p>Then there is this <a href=\"http:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=7859\">&#8216;yet to be released Tablet PC&#8217;<\/a> demo by employee Susan.  SuperseKreT (<strong><em>!!!<\/em><\/strong>) but apparently poor Susan is <em>left-handed<\/em>: apparently the software isn&#8217;t really made for left-handed people. Think about it. Which brings me to the following idea: <em>Windows for Left Handed People&#8217;<\/em>. I mean &#8216;why should the OK Button always be on the right side?&#8217;. You can quote me on that. Now if you don&#8217;t mind, I&#8217;m off to the Patent Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just this morning I tried to go through the videos, shot over at MSDN&#8217;s &#8216;Channel 9&#8217;. After cancelling a hundred of dialogs displaying security certificates (!!!), I managed to get through some of the videos (note, they&#8217;re all WMVs). For &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=561\">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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561"}],"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=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}