{"id":1723,"date":"2009-05-12T00:06:04","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T00:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/05\/12\/grant_wranglers_of_the_world_unite\/"},"modified":"2009-05-12T00:06:04","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T00:06:04","slug":"grant_wranglers_of_the_world_unite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/05\/12\/grant_wranglers_of_the_world_unite\/","title":{"rendered":"Grant wranglers of the world, unite!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in the early stages of submitting a pre-application to a new (to me) funding organisation, which involves finding and summarising a lot of information from their website.<br \/>\nI was impressed by the following option:<br \/>\n<code>The PI also may provide permission to an individual in his\/her organization to [...] assist in preparing the application<\/code><br \/>\nWow! A funding body that acknowledges that people like me exist! And that lets me sign in using my own username and password, which I can control! I usually have to get the PI&#8217;s login details out of him or her, which is never ideal and occasionally causes significant delays when a password is <a href=\"http:\/\/vwxynot.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/tribal-knowledge.html\">forgotten<\/a> or changed without my knowledge.<br \/>\nThe website also provided a moment of amusement:<br \/>\n<code>To save a copy of the forms above, right-click on the name and select from the pop-up menu that is displayed either &#034;Save Target As...&#034; (for Internet Explorer), or &#034;Save Link As...&#034; (for Netscape), or something similar in your browser.<\/code><br \/>\nMethinks helpdesk is sick of trying to track new browser trends, and is quite rightly encouraging those pesky Safari\/Firefox\/Chrome users to fend for themselves<sup><a href=\"#fn15331101164f04ccbd45983\">1<\/a><\/sup>.<br \/>\n1) Jealous?  Me? Nah, I love my IE7 and wouldn&#8217;t change it even if I was allowed<sup><a href=\"#fn21383720594f04ccd36c1e4\">2<\/a><\/sup>.<br \/>\n2) not true<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in the early stages of submitting a pre-application to a new (to me) funding organisation, which involves finding and summarising a lot of information from their website. I was impressed by the following option: The PI also may provide &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/05\/12\/grant_wranglers_of_the_world_unite\/\">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-1723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723","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=1723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}