{"id":823,"date":"2008-02-21T05:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T11:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=823"},"modified":"2008-02-21T05:36:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-21T11:36:00","slug":"off-topic-laptops-now-just-bloody-great-big-handsets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/02\/off-topic-laptops-now-just-bloody-great-big-handsets\/","title":{"rendered":"Off topic: laptops &#8211; now just bloody great big handsets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">T<\/span>he thing that has really revolutionised my MacBook in the past fortnight is a 3G USB modem. Inspired by tech whizz and City colleague <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/7200451.stm\">Bill Thompson<\/a>, I took advantage of a sudden price drop. \u00a315 a month now buys me 3GB of access.<\/p>\n<p>If macs came with SIM cards, of course, I wouldn\u2019t have to stick a dongle in the USB port. So now my laptop really is just a bloody great big handset. And at last, I get the point of 3G. What took so long?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The thing that has really revolutionised my MacBook in the past fortnight is a 3G USB modem. Inspired by tech whizz and City colleague Bill Thompson, I took advantage of a sudden price drop. \u00a315 a month now buys me 3GB of access. If macs came with SIM cards, of course, I wouldn\u2019t have to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-off-topic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}