{"id":4602,"date":"2003-09-24T19:18:48","date_gmt":"2003-09-24T18:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=4602"},"modified":"2003-09-24T19:18:48","modified_gmt":"2003-09-24T18:18:48","slug":"rants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2003\/09\/24\/rants\/","title":{"rendered":"Rants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Proto-rants (i.e. ideas that are half formed in my head that I&#8217;m too busy to expand on, but present for discussion):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Microsoft killing chat rooms to prevent paedophiles gaining access to kids. Well, this is clearly a move by MS to prevent their arse being sued in a big way by some litigious, aggrieved and (most likely) grieving parent. But the logic is akin to saying &quot;kids get killed on roads, so let&#8217;s rip all the roads up and destroy all the vehicles! yay!&quot;<\/li>\n<li>Report will show that Iraq was working on developing the beginnings of perhaps moving towards a programme to investigate the possibility of making some WMDs (I&#8217;d link to the news reports about the actual US-led task group that has come up with this gem, but I&#8217;ve got a date this evening and don&#8217;t want to be late, ok?). Perhaps. Maybe. The evidence? They had <b>bunsen burners<\/b>! Scary. Mind you, any secondary school class equipped with bunsen burners could, within minutes, wipe out your average small town. My response &#8211; WTF?<\/li>\n<li>Coats on dogs. To quote Dogbert: &quot;It is equally impolite for animals to wear pants as it is for people to be nude&quot;. So Brian, please make sure it only happens in the privacy of your own home, or on that beach behind the shingle bank at Brighton, ok?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And remind me to tell you about the couple in last night&#8217;s hotel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proto-rants (i.e. ideas that are half formed in my head that I&#8217;m too busy to expand on, but present for discussion): Microsoft killing chat rooms to prevent paedophiles gaining access to kids. Well, this is clearly a move by MS to prevent their arse being sued in a big way by some litigious, aggrieved and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}