{"id":638,"date":"2006-08-31T09:50:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-30T23:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/638\/"},"modified":"2014-10-10T12:19:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T01:19:52","slug":"638","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/638","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New battery ordered for my laptop. Should be here about 5pm or so from experience. It was only $167 for a new battery. It should improve my battery life significantly. With some luck I will get to be able to watch a movie or two, particularly if I turn down the brightness of the screen and do not use the DVD. Pretty obvious really. Unfortunately I will not have my wireless card at the Qantas Club &#8211; the Vodafone one that is &#8211; since I will be leaving it here in case the internet access goes down. <\/p>\n<p>I am going down to Jaycar in a moment to pick up some parts so I can get a repair out the door &#8211; some transistors which will cost all of $1.50 for 10. 50 years back the same parts would have been about ten times the price for a single transistor. How things have changed. Then again looking the other way CPU&#8217;s have maybe 20 million transistors for $50, making individual units for 15 cents quite expensive. <\/p>\n<p>And the SMH is reporting that there are rumours that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/football\/world-cup-2010-could-head-down-under\/2006\/08\/30\/1156816966948.html\">the 2010 World Cup<\/a> could be moved here to Oz. That would be really great, but I doubt that this would happen in reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New battery ordered for my laptop. Should be here about 5pm or so from experience. It was only $167 for a new battery. It should improve my battery life significantly. With some luck I will get to be able to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/638\">  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-638","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638"}],"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=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}