{"id":1152,"date":"2004-07-14T21:05:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-14T21:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1152"},"modified":"2018-08-13T12:18:19","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T17:18:19","slug":"1152","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/14\/1152\/","title":{"rendered":"Venting the Venom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, check out Thomas Sowell&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.townhall.com\/columnists\/thomassowell\/ts20040714.shtml\" target=\"_new\">latest column<\/a>, wherein he takes on the notorious <strike>extraneous bells and whistles<\/strike> software industry:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the maddening things about some computer programs and computerized products is their making you fight your way through a maze of complications to do simple things. Whether you want to play chess, take a picture, or do some other obvious and straightforward thing, you must first deal with a zillion options to do things you have no interest in doing.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that there are innumerable features built into any product &#8212; whether computerized or not &#8212; does not automatically mean that you have to deal with the features you don&#8217;t want.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s because too much software is designed by developers, many of whom think vi was a pretty good interface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, check out Thomas Sowell&#8217;s latest column, wherein he takes on the notorious extraneous bells and whistles software industry: One of the maddening things about some computer programs and computerized products is their making you fight your way through a maze of complications to do simple things. Whether you want to play chess, take a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23078,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions\/23078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}