{"id":1801,"date":"2005-11-07T12:27:10","date_gmt":"2005-11-07T15:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=1565"},"modified":"2010-05-08T20:21:24","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T23:21:24","slug":"end-of-an-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2005\/11\/07\/end-of-an-era\/","title":{"rendered":"End of an era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of offline things to be debugged, no time&#8230; but I&#8217;m slowly digging my way out from under.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, one thing struck me this weekend; I&#8217;m not buying magazines anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Ten years ago I was buying an average of 20 to 40 magazines each month. No subscriptions; the few times I tried subscribing, it didn&#8217;t work out well; one extreme case was when I subscribed to MacWorld magazine at an expo and the first (and only) issue I ever got from that arrived 11 months late, and with my address wrong &#8211; they&#8217;d put in &#8220;Mexico&#8221; instead of &#8220;Brazil&#8221;. I suppose whoever typed my address in from the subscription card decided I was obviously mistaken about my country of residence. But I digress&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>When we moved from a largish house into a smallish apartment, Dorinha wisely decided that my magazine collection would not survive the move. Some I gave to friends, some I stored elsewhere, but most if was discarded&#8230; and that part was like several cubic meters of paper. (I thought briefly of microfilming, but&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, after the move the only magazine I still bought every month was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/\">Wired<\/a>, since I had the complete run from issue#1. But lately some issues have been missing at the newsdealer&#8217;s, and now the last trip has definitely interrupted my collection&#8230; and most of it is available on the net now anyway&#8230; still, I miss the ads and the back page.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the blame lies on that Internet thingy. Don&#8217;t know how people survived without it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of offline things to be debugged, no time&#8230; but I&#8217;m slowly digging my way out from under. Even so, one thing struck me this weekend; I&#8217;m not buying magazines anymore. Ten years ago I was buying an average of 20 to 40 magazines each month. No subscriptions; the few times I tried subscribing, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-1801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-history"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-t3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}