{"id":22746,"date":"2004-09-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/?p=5"},"modified":"2004-09-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-08T00:00:00","slug":"the-best-thing-from-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2004\/09\/08\/the-best-thing-from-this-month\/","title":{"rendered":"The best thing from this month&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The highlight of this month was <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Wrestling\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wrestling\">wrestling<\/a> with my computer every spare second I had in order to restore it to something resembling working order&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s why I&#8217;ve been decidedly quiet on the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Internet\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Internet\">internet<\/a> front. How ironic is it that installing a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Antivirus software\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antivirus_software\">virus protection<\/a> program can completely screw about your computer?! Anyway, it&#8217;s working well enough for me to write this for now.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t really have any plans for the future to be honest! That sub-heading doesn&#8217;t refer to my long term future &#8211; that&#8217;s all planned in my mind. Now&#8217;s not the time for that though.<\/p>\n<p>In the short term, the next couple of weeks, I plan to write some stuff for here, up the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Frame rate\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frame_rate\">update rate<\/a>. But also to add lots more stuff to\u00a0the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Education\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Education\">education<\/a> site. While I&#8217;ve been having problems with my computer, all I&#8217;ve been able to do is surf the internet. This has meant that I&#8217;ve been able to visit lots of interesting new places! And I&#8217;m fantastic at online <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Scrabble\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scrabble\">Scrabble<\/a>&#8230; But also I&#8217;ve been thinking about how much &#8220;stuff&#8221; I see too. Take in some excellent images. And I&#8217;ve been slowly gathering together some pictures that I like for ages now. And I&#8217;ve published them on here now &#8211; giving credits to original owners and stating where they are from if I can remember. Those pictures can be viewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomasjpitts.co.uk\/gallery2\/v\/internet\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> (opens in a new window).<\/p>\n<p>Among those is a set of images I saw on a forum. The main premise is that a guy was talking a leisurely stroll through his local wood when he saw something glinting. He walked towards it and saw it was a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Digital camera\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Digital_camera\">digital camera<\/a>. The lucky&#8230; Anyway, on the camera are some fantastic images. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomasjpitts.co.uk\/gallery2\/v\/internet\/woods\/\" target=\"_blank\">Check them out<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>[Links updated October 2007]<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?w=1165\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The highlight of this month was wrestling with my computer every spare second I had in order to restore it to something resembling working order&#8230; So that&#8217;s why I&#8217;ve been decidedly quiet on the internet front. How ironic is it that installing a virus protection program can completely screw about your computer?! Anyway, it&#8217;s working [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[9],"tags":[80,466,929,931,1015,1215,1217,2362,2363,2664,2690,3169,3295],"class_list":["post-22746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-80","tag-board-game","tag-digital","tag-digital-camera","tag-education","tag-gallery","tag-game","tag-photography","tag-photos","tag-scrabble","tag-september","tag-video-games","tag-words-and-trivia","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OeSW-5US","jetpack-related-posts":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}