{"id":4,"date":"2007-10-14T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-14T20:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andypalmer.com\/blog\/?p=4"},"modified":"2007-10-14T21:50:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-14T20:50:00","slug":"a-couple-of-small-touches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andypalmer.com\/2007\/10\/a-couple-of-small-touches\/","title":{"rendered":"A couple of small touches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it&#8217;s the small touches that make the difference between an OK piece of software and a great piece of software.<br \/>A couple of small touches have stood out to me over the last couple of days.<br \/>Firstly, I&#8217;ve just loaded Gutsy Gibbon onto my laptop. In an office full of techy practical jokers it&#8217;s very important to lock your screen if you wander away for a few minutes. One of the options in the password entry dialogue for Gutsy is to leave a message for the person who has locked the terminal. This is cool \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, I was driving home this evening when the traffic came to a very sudden stop in front of me. I had to hit the brakes hard, and while I diverted my full attention to avoiding a collision with the car in front, I noticed out of the corner of my eye that the car (Renault Laguna) had started flashing the hazard lights.<br \/>This indicated to the people behind me that this was not an ordinary circumstance, giving them maybe a little extra warning. Overall, this car has given me a fair amount of trouble, but I liked this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it&#8217;s the small touches that make the difference between an OK piece of software and a great piece of software.A couple of small touches have stood out to me over the last couple of days.Firstly, I&#8217;ve just loaded Gutsy Gibbon onto my laptop. In an office full of techy practical jokers it&#8217;s very important [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andypalmer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andypalmer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andypalmer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andypalmer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andypalmer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andypalmer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andypalmer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andypalmer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andypalmer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}