{"id":131,"date":"2006-02-08T14:11:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-08T18:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=131"},"modified":"2006-02-08T14:11:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-08T18:11:00","slug":"ungrateful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=131","title":{"rendered":"ungrateful"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every six months or so I think that I must get a download from the Grateful Dead music store; it takes about that long to forget how awful the system is. They have a site which doesn’t work with firefox at all, and where the button to download all the tracks you have bought (one easy click on emusic) will only work in IE.<\/span> Or so they say; it won’t work in IE for me either. So I end up right-clicking on every track in Opera and saving as.<\/p>\n\n

Last time I did this was January the fourth. Halfway through the ineffable frustration of downloading sixteen copies of a file called “bigriver.aspx” which contains no music at all, I fired off an email of complaint to the help desk. Today, February 8, I got a reply, which started with the phrase “You have recently” <\/span> … stoned inefficiency combined with arrogance and robotic inflexibility. How very 1980s Dead.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every six months or so I think that I must get a download from the Grateful Dead music store; it takes about that long to forget how awful the system is. They have a site which doesn’t work with firefox … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}