{"id":528,"date":"2004-06-25T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-25T20:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hamusutaa.com\/blog\/?p=528"},"modified":"2004-06-25T13:01:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-25T20:01:00","slug":"how-to-make-things-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/25\/how-to-make-things-work\/","title":{"rendered":"How to make things work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two things:  First, when I was removing the temporarily installed hard drive from my computer, I figured out why the on-board soundcard wasn&#8217;t working in my new case.  I won&#8217;t go into details, but it all started with the following thought:  &#8220;Hey, why isn&#8217;t this cable plugged in to anything?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, the concept of inertia has once again kept me from leaving Yahoo!.  Not only is my primary contract extended for a month because of loose ends that haven&#8217;t been tied up yet, but another full-time contract may be lined up after that.  So, even though more and more people I know are leaving (including employee #8, the VP who originally hired me <i>almost exactly six years ago<\/i>), I just can&#8217;t leave this place&#8230; and it&#8217;s not necessarily a bad thing.  (Even if all the drivers in the cars are morons.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two things: First, when I was removing the temporarily installed hard drive from my computer, I figured out why the on-board soundcard wasn&#8217;t working in my new case. I won&#8217;t go into details, but it all started with the following thought: &#8220;Hey, why isn&#8217;t this cable plugged in to anything?&#8221; Secondly, the concept of inertia &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/25\/how-to-make-things-work\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to make things work&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}