{"id":309,"date":"2008-11-11T02:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T02:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/11\/11\/style-over-substance\/"},"modified":"2008-11-11T02:36:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T02:36:00","slug":"style-over-substance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/11\/11\/style-over-substance\/","title":{"rendered":"Style over substance?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am in the market for a laptop and find myself leaning towards a Mac. I&#8217;ve never really used one before, and for some reason I feel the need to justify the switch to myself using something more than &#8220;because they&#8217;re cooler&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t need anything fancy (in fact I&#8217;ll probably get a reconditioned used computer, whichever kind I decide to go for), just internet, word processing, and maybe website development.<\/p>\n<p>I know there are lots of MacUsers* in the blogosphere, so please let me know of any convincing reasons for switching!<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%\">*A postdoc in my PhD lab in Glasgow subscribed to the MacUser magazine. The rest of us always said it sounded like a support group for Scottish drug addicts.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am in the market for a laptop and find myself leaning towards a Mac. I&#8217;ve never really used one before, and for some reason I feel the need to justify the switch to myself using something more than &#8220;because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/11\/11\/style-over-substance\/\">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":[26,19,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-language","category-personal","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","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=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}