{"id":134,"date":"2003-07-28T19:06:29","date_gmt":"2003-07-29T00:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=134"},"modified":"2003-07-28T19:06:29","modified_gmt":"2003-07-29T00:06:29","slug":"gah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/28\/gah\/","title":{"rendered":"gah"},"content":{"rendered":"

so much to write about, so little time. Got literature review due on wednesday. lots more to do, hopefully something that i’ve done makes remote sense.<\/p>\n

hell, i haven’t even run it through ispell yet….<\/p>\n

maybe i should print and read it. do my typical edit of every 2nd sentence to make it (hopefully) better. :)<\/p>\n

pity just creating two lists: crappy and non-crappy and inserting file system names in them isn’t enough.<\/p>\n

I wish I had more time to implement my data store – it would be so much better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

so much to write about, so little time. Got literature review due on wednesday. lots more to do, hopefully something that i’ve done makes remote sense. hell, i haven’t even run it through ispell yet…. maybe i should print and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hons-project"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5a6n8-gah","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":452,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/18\/election-results-page-performance\/","url_meta":{"origin":134,"position":0},"title":"Election results page performance","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2005-08-18","format":false,"excerpt":"Did the switch of the election-results page from postgresql to mysql today. 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