{"id":164,"date":"2003-09-24T00:21:08","date_gmt":"2003-09-24T05:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=164"},"modified":"2016-08-22T14:58:11","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T04:58:11","slug":"the-one-button-mouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/24\/the-one-button-mouse\/","title":{"rendered":"the one button mouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If <b>anybody<\/b> wants the prime example of why Apple chose to have one button on their mice, go be a beginner user of xfig. Sure you can do cool stuff in it (hey, there&#8217;s a bunch of example images as made by one of my hons supervisors).<\/p>\n<p>but xfig is bloody shocking if you&#8217;re not experienced with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If anybody wants the prime example of why Apple chose to have one button on their mice, go be a beginner user of xfig. Sure you can do cool stuff in it (hey, there&#8217;s a bunch of example images as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/24\/the-one-button-mouse\/\">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_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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uni"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-2E","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":486,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/14\/hey-acpi-buttons-work\/","url_meta":{"origin":164,"position":0},"title":"Hey, ACPI buttons work!","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2005-10-14","format":false,"excerpt":"rockin. 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