{"id":42927,"date":"2014-04-09T05:00:21","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T10:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=42927"},"modified":"2014-04-08T19:03:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T00:03:00","slug":"a-technical-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=42927","title":{"rendered":"A Technical Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails with a request for some geek help:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I know some tech people read this blog.\u00a0\u00a0Anybody have\u00a0an\u00a0opinion on the Samsung Chrome Book, $249 at Staples?<\/p>\n<p>On vacation, I use a Toshiba Excite 10\u201d tablet to surf the web and check email and Facebook.\u00a0 No keyboard = frustrating.\u00a0 The Chrome Book would solve that without adding a Bluetooth keyboard to lug around.<\/p>\n<p>At home, the grandkids use the tablet to play touch-screen games like Angry Birds but I don\u2019t play them so touch-screen gaming is irrelevant to me.<\/p>\n<p>Any other serious drawbacks I\u2019m missing?<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Might have to see if AM1280&#8217;s assistant ops manager Jon Osburn is tuned in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails with a request for some geek help: I know some tech people read this blog.\u00a0\u00a0Anybody have\u00a0an\u00a0opinion on the Samsung Chrome Book, $249 at Staples? On vacation, I use a Toshiba Excite 10\u201d tablet to surf the web and check email and Facebook.\u00a0 No keyboard = frustrating.\u00a0 The Chrome Book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42927"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42929,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42927\/revisions\/42929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}