{"id":1661,"date":"2008-08-20T23:08:53","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T23:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/08\/20\/more_fun_with_dialogue_boxes\/"},"modified":"2008-08-20T23:08:53","modified_gmt":"2008-08-20T23:08:53","slug":"more_fun_with_dialogue_boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/08\/20\/more_fun_with_dialogue_boxes\/","title":{"rendered":"More fun with dialogue boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nature.com\/blogs\/user\/UE19877E8\/2008\/08\/19\/in-which-i-am-assaulted-by-inscrutable-dialogue-boxes\">this week&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nature.com\/blogs\/user\/ennis\/2008\/08\/20\/a-word-wish\">theme<\/a>&#8230;<br \/>\nDear Microsoft,<br \/>\nPlease can you insert code into Outlook that scans all outgoing messages for phrases such as \u201chere is\u201d and \u201cis attached\u201d, and triggers the following dialogue box when I press Send?<br \/>\n\u201cThere is text in this message that indicates the need for an attachment. However you have not attached any files to this email, you dumbass. Attach your very important file before sending this email to your bigwig colleagues?\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>Yes, the inevitable follow up email annoys them \/ No, my incompetence amuses them<\/strong><br \/>\nThank you kindly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing this week&#8217;s theme&#8230; Dear Microsoft, Please can you insert code into Outlook that scans all outgoing messages for phrases such as \u201chere is\u201d and \u201cis attached\u201d, and triggers the following dialogue box when I press Send? \u201cThere is text &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/08\/20\/more_fun_with_dialogue_boxes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}