{"id":1598,"date":"2008-05-19T13:48:31","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T12:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2008-05-19T13:47:42","modified_gmt":"2008-05-19T12:47:42","slug":"how-computers-improve-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1598","title":{"rendered":"How computers improve life"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<p><div style=''>or not: an occasional series. This entry comes from lifehacker:<br \/>\n<blockquote><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/391437\/track-time-between-haircuts-with-google-calendar-and-spreadsheet\">Calendar: Track Time Between Haircuts with Google Calendar and Spreadsheet<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nGoogler Matt Cutts uses Google Calendar and Google Spreadsheets to keep track of how long he&#8217;s gone between haircuts&#8212;a good way to make sure he doesn&#8217;t get too overgrown. First he copies his regular haircut appointment calendar dates into a spreadsheet, and then he uses a date math formula to calculate the difference between each.<br \/>\n<\/blockquote><\/p>\n\n\t<p>The idea that technological, computerate solutions are intrinsically better than merely looking in the mirror from time to time is more clearly absurd here than in the saga of the <span class=\"caps\">OLPC<\/span>. But it&#8217;s recognisably the same mindset.<\/p>\n\n\t<p><\/div><\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\t<p>or not: an occasional series. This entry comes from lifehacker: Calendar: Track Time Between Haircuts with Google Calendar and Spreadsheet Googler Matt Cutts uses Google Calendar and Google Spreadsheets to keep track of how long he&#8217;s gone between haircuts&#8212;a good &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1598\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598"}],"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=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}