{"id":22,"date":"2009-01-11T17:04:37","date_gmt":"2009-01-11T17:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sugarandcyanide.com\/blog\/?p=22"},"modified":"2009-01-11T17:04:37","modified_gmt":"2009-01-11T17:04:37","slug":"betas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sugarandcyanide.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/11\/betas\/","title":{"rendered":"betas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m finally downloading the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windows.com\/windows7\/\" target=\"_blank\">Windows 7 Beta<\/a> right now.  I tried a few times yesterday under Vista, as my desktop is only booted into XP when I have a straggling program that won&#8217;t run in the newer OS, and as I&#8217;ve said before on my blogs I quite like Vista.  Every time I tried to download the beta, however, the ActiveX component I needed to get it going wouldn&#8217;t install.<\/p>\n<p>So I booted into XP and the download is now running happily.  I guess Microsoft still has a few things to work out.<\/p>\n<p>After the last MacBook Pro fiasco and reinstalling from my Time Machine backup, Mail decided to fail on me.  Again.  It acted like I was a new user and lost all my old messages.  Thankfully I haven&#8217;t deleted messages from my account on the server in a long time, so I can just re-download them, but this is a serious problem with the way Mail works that has bugged me for years.  I switched this morning to Thunderbird, which I&#8217;ve gotten used to at work and which, while not pretty or as feature-rich as Mail, should suffice.<\/p>\n<p>Wonder what that&#8217;s going to do to my iPhone syncing, but I suppose that&#8217;s a problem for another day. For now, back to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m finally downloading the Windows 7 Beta right now. I tried a few times yesterday under Vista, as my desktop is only booted into XP when I have a straggling program that won&#8217;t run in the newer OS, and as I&#8217;ve said before on my blogs I quite like Vista. Every time I tried to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sugarandcyanide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sugarandcyanide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sugarandcyanide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sugarandcyanide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sugarandcyanide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sugarandcyanide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sugarandcyanide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sugarandcyanide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sugarandcyanide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}