{"id":721,"date":"2005-08-27T01:20:15","date_gmt":"2005-08-27T04:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=721"},"modified":"2005-08-27T01:20:16","modified_gmt":"2005-08-27T04:20:16","slug":"packrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=721","title":{"rendered":"Packrat or to go?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">H<\/span>umans are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discoverseaz.com\/Wildlife\/SmlMam.html\">packrats<\/a>. I&#8217;m not kidding. I just finished browsing through the files on a CD-ROM disk called &#8216;sources and downloads  from laptop&#8217;. As the name reveals, it&#8217;s a disk full of older sources from my old laptop. I was actually looking for a piece of <em>Python code<\/em>, a framework for sifting through newsgroups. I didn&#8217;t find the software, but I ended up reading up older code, examining zip files and trying to decipher the functionality of executables with weird names.\n<\/p>\n<p>Take for example all the source files: they have been divided over three zipfiles with sizes varying from 20 MB to 60 MB. There&#8217;s &#8216;ProcNavigator&#8217;, &#8216;Hearts (is not a game)&#8217; and other funny stuff worth mentioning but not right now. Later maybe: I need to think about why humans are such a packrats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humans are packrats. I&#8217;m not kidding. I just finished browsing through the files on a CD-ROM disk called &#8216;sources and downloads from laptop&#8217;. As the name reveals, it&#8217;s a disk full of older sources from my old laptop. I was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=721\">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\/721"}],"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=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}