{"id":321,"date":"2004-12-17T19:18:56","date_gmt":"2004-12-17T09:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=321"},"modified":"2004-12-17T19:18:56","modified_gmt":"2004-12-17T09:18:56","slug":"currently-listening-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/17\/currently-listening-to\/","title":{"rendered":"currently listening to&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cat Stevens. really enjoying it too. haven&#8217;t listened to him in ages.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve raided my dad&#8217;s CD collection (vinyl collection is good too, but harder to put onto an iPod[1])<\/p>\n<p>[1] these days I wouldn&#8217;t automatically buy one though &#8211; Apple is proving monopolistic and evil with their DRM and *why* isn&#8217;t there OGG support yet? There&#8217;s BSD licensed code out there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cat Stevens. really enjoying it too. haven&#8217;t listened to him in ages. I&#8217;ve raided my dad&#8217;s CD collection (vinyl collection is good too, but harder to put onto an iPod[1]) [1] these days I wouldn&#8217;t automatically buy one though &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/17\/currently-listening-to\/\">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":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-life-the-universe-and-everything"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-5b","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3039,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/27\/telstra-stops-tracking-still-supporting-netsweeper\/","url_meta":{"origin":321,"position":0},"title":"Telstra stops tracking, still supporting Netsweeper","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2012-06-27","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com.au\/telstra-halts-customer-tracking-339340404.htm The big news: \"We are stopping all collection of website addresses for the development of this new product,\" Telstra said in a statement. 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