{"id":584,"date":"2010-04-15T21:48:28","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T05:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=584"},"modified":"2010-04-15T21:48:28","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T05:48:28","slug":"last-laughs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/15\/last-laughs\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Laughs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My secretary&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=580\">PC crashed<\/a> today. I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s wrong with it, and didn&#8217;t have time to investigate. So I made some obnoxious Mac fanboy-type remarks about silly Microsoft and its sad excuses for operating systems. (Then I told her to make do as well as she could with a pencil and calculator.)<\/p>\n<p>So this afternoon, my MacBook Pro BSOD&#8217;d on me:<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/befuddledsenses\/4524757764\/\" title=\"Crash 2 - MacBook by Mess of Pottage, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4043\/4524757764_29b875c45d_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Crash 2 - MacBook\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ah, snap! I really liked that email!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Which is pretty shocking. I&#8217;m not sure if this might be the first time it&#8217;s done that. I know I&#8217;ve seen this BSOD screen before today, but it might have been on the iMac at work, or the other Mac at home.<\/p>\n<p>But I just got a second chance to study the phenomenon. Just as I was blogging the above, it panicked again:<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/befuddledsenses\/4525283190\/\" title=\"Mac Crash 2 by Mess of Pottage, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4004\/4525283190_e9791ed7ab_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Mac Crash 2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A BSOD, Apple-style<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Twice. In one day. The day my secretary&#8217;s ancient PC belly-upped and I made superior remarks about the sad, sad mistake called Windows XP. Oh the irony of it all.<\/p>\n<p>What the heck did Apple put in that last <a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/downloads\/\">Security Update<\/a>? Or was it Snow Leopard 10.6.3?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My secretary&#8217;s PC crashed today. I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s wrong with it, and didn&#8217;t have time to investigate. So I made some obnoxious Mac fanboy-type remarks about silly Microsoft and its sad excuses for operating systems. (Then I told her to make do as well as she could with a pencil and calculator.) So this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-9q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}