{"id":798,"date":"2003-10-04T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-04T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2003\/10\/04\/geek-toys-and-other-things\/"},"modified":"2003-10-04T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-04T13:30:00","slug":"geek-toys-and-other-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2003\/10\/04\/geek-toys-and-other-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Geek toys and other things&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I discovered today that Orange are going to start selling the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orange.com\/English\/forwardthinking\/treo600.asp\">Handspring Treo 600<\/a> PDA\/Phone on Monday. Me want toy! Me want toy! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about time I replaced my aging Palm Pilot Pro with something a little more up to date. I&#8217;ve always thought that combining the PDA with a phone was a good idea, especially if it was more a PDA with phone functionality rather than the other way around.<\/p>\n<p>The other thing is that I saw the new Dido album (I won&#8217;t call it a CD as it has copy protection which violates teh Compact CD standard) in Sainsbury&#8217;s today below the magic price of \u00a310. No album is worth more than this. Anyway, the album is DULL with a capital snooze. It sounds as if the muse has left her, so it&#8217;s a whole load of songs with extremely simple repetative melodies and not very clever lyrics. I think the record company was breathing down her neck to get a follow up album to &#8220;No Angel&#8221; out and this is the result. Try again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I discovered today that Orange are going to start selling the Handspring Treo 600 PDA\/Phone on Monday. Me want toy! Me want toy! \ud83d\ude09 It&#8217;s about time I replaced my aging Palm Pilot Pro with something a little more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2003\/10\/04\/geek-toys-and-other-things\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Kvvs-cS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}