{"id":19,"date":"2006-09-09T21:55:58","date_gmt":"2006-09-09T21:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/?p=17"},"modified":"2017-02-20T08:06:57","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T08:06:57","slug":"monday-january-21-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/09\/monday-january-21-2002\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday, January 21, 2002"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"arial, sans-serif\">           There are two kinds of weblogs.<\/p>\n<p>Well, actually, there may be dozens, but I&#8217;m familiar with two. First, there&#8217;s the sort of online journal I&#8217;ve been doing here, posting the odd thought when the whim strikes me. Some people do daily entries, treat it as a diary, whatever, but it&#8217;s basically a self-contained journal.<\/p>\n<p>Second, there&#8217;s the sort where people report Cool Sites they&#8217;ve found on the web, so that their friends can check &#8217;em out. I haven&#8217;t done much of this, because frankly, I don&#8217;t do all that much websurfing, and when I find cool stuff it&#8217;s largely because I saw it in a friend&#8217;s weblog. Including it here is too much like plagiarism.<\/p>\n<p>But right now, I&#8217;d like to point out a website I have just rediscovered after many years of neglect:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pixelscapes.com\/spatulacity\/button.htm\">The Really Big Button That Doesn&#8217;t Do Anything<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is something that&#8217;s been on the web since the very early days; it was first put up in 1993 (at a different URL, I believe), and was something I discovered back in 1994 when I first got web access.<\/p>\n<p>I still think it&#8217;s one of the funniest sites I&#8217;ve ever seen, and the closest the Web comes to true Zen.<\/p>\n<p>So go, click, experience <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pixelscapes.com\/spatulacity\/button.htm\">The Really Big Button That Doesn&#8217;t Do Anything<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two kinds of weblogs. Well, actually, there may be dozens, but I&#8217;m familiar with two. First, there&#8217;s the sort of online journal I&#8217;ve been doing here, posting the odd thought when the whim strikes me. Some people do daily entries, treat it as a diary, whatever, but it&#8217;s basically a self-contained journal. Second,&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/09\/monday-january-21-2002\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strange-days"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":716,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}