{"id":311,"date":"2014-09-04T04:51:42","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T07:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/?p=311"},"modified":"2014-10-03T21:18:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-04T00:18:26","slug":"sing-a-happy-song-of-wifi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/archives\/311","title":{"rendered":"Sing a (happy) song of Wifi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/KFCWIFI_img10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-790\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/KFCWIFI_img10.jpg\" alt=\"KFCWIFI_img10\" width=\"482\" height=\"271\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What a great feeling when I walk into a bar that I have no recollection of having ever visited and find that I must have \u2013and, working it out with my travel diary, at least four years ago\u2013 because the wifi remembers me.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s not exactly the wifi that remembered me, but Apple&#8217;s wonderful Time Machine and Migration Assistant and the fact that my settings are automatically updated across all my machines. So each time I buy a new laptop or handheld it inherits all my wifi passwords going back until I started using Time Machine, about 4 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>This is how software should be &#8211; like the telephone, invisible and just working in the background. No, I&#8217;m not selling Apple \u2013they have some good stuff, but so do other manufacturers\u2013 but I do like the way that some aspects of software do work, and in doing so make your life simple. Sadly, there is other software &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a great feeling when I walk into a bar that I have no recollection of having ever visited and find that I must have \u2013and, working it out with my travel diary, at least four years ago\u2013 because the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/archives\/311\">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":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-fb","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":791,"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}