{"id":2466,"date":"2010-12-01T00:01:18","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T08:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=2466"},"modified":"2010-11-30T20:37:25","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T04:37:25","slug":"the-jargon-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=2466","title":{"rendered":"The Jargon File"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Computer terms. Love &#8217;em. Hate &#8217;em. Look at &#8217;em in a different light.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nConsider <em>backup<\/em>. Being backed up means different things depending on the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Computer backed up: Good.<br \/>\nYou backed up: Not so good.<\/p>\n<p>Computer virus: Bad<br \/>\nPeople virus: Bad<\/p>\n<p>Computer mouse: Good<br \/>\nReal mouse: Bad<\/p>\n<p>A hard drive is an okay thing to have for a computer, but not for a trip to your Aunt Millie&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Computer port: Good<br \/>\n80 proof port: Better<\/p>\n<p>Reinstalling Microsoft Windows: Painful<br \/>\nReinstalling your home&#8217;s windows: Painful and expensive<\/p>\n<p>Draft: An unfinished document<br \/>\nDraft: A window has been left open<\/p>\n<p>In the world cell phone: Great<br \/>\nIn jail cell phone: Not as great<\/p>\n<p>Computer network: Handy<br \/>\nTelevision network: Boring<\/p>\n<p>Console: The computer box<br \/>\nConsole: To comfort someone in a time of woe<\/p>\n<p>CPU: Central processing unit<br \/>\nCPU: To view something stinky<\/p>\n<p>Links: Clickable things on a web page or elsewhere<br \/>\nLinks: Holes on a golf course<br \/>\nLinks: Things to hold your shirt cuffs<\/p>\n<p>Save All: To transfer your documents from memory to disk<br \/>\nSave All: What the Church tries to do to humanity<\/p>\n<p>Apple: Evil computer company<br \/>\nApple: Tasty fruit<\/p>\n<p>UPS, Uninterruptible Power Supply: Saves your stuff<br \/>\nUPS, United Parcel Service: Delivers your stuff<\/p>\n<p>USB: Universal Serial Bus<br \/>\nUBS: Union Back of Switzerland<\/p>\n<p>RAM: computer memory<br \/>\nRam: Male sheep<\/p>\n<p>ROM: Read-only memory<br \/>\nRahm: Chicago politician<\/p>\n<p>Computer Laptop: Cool<br \/>\nHeidi&#8217;s lap top: Very cool!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computer terms. Love &#8217;em. Hate &#8217;em. Look at &#8217;em in a different light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2466"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2472,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466\/revisions\/2472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}