{"id":1883,"date":"2005-11-25T20:05:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-25T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/1883\/"},"modified":"2014-10-10T12:29:12","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T01:29:12","slug":"1883","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/1883","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year around this time I start working on my christmas letter to all my friends. This is a letter that basically brings all my friends up to date with my life. So I have taken some time today to work on that. I have more to do on the letter, but I think that the majority of the work has been done on this. It has been hard to write this year, working out what I have managed to do, and where this year has gone. Seems to have gone so quickly. <\/p>\n<p>I have a subscription to a program with Microsoft called Empower for developers. This is a special plan where developers get access to MSDN for two years worth about $6,000, as well as other support. 18 months back I paid $875 for this program. Unfortunately my membership dropped off. Contacting microsoft they told me to re-subscribe, paying my money again. The good news is that I have extended my subscription by 18 months saving me a lot more than I will be spending. Still I would rather not be paying the money to Microsoft at this stage. <\/p>\n<p>[Short break&#8230; Just got a phone call from the USA&#8230; Just got some consulting work. Fantastic. ]<\/p>\n<p>The LowEndMac site has a look at how and why <a href=\"http:\/\/lowendmac.com\/orchard\/05\/1123.html\">Apple developed their Powerbooks<\/a>, and how revolutionary the Powerbooks were. Findally, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/breaking\/top-ten-digital-gifts\/2005\/11\/25\/1132703348327.html\">SMH<\/a> has a list of the Top 10 presents this christmas&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year around this time I start working on my christmas letter to all my friends. This is a letter that basically brings all my friends up to date with my life. So I have taken some time today to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/1883\">  Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5cfmK-1883","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}