{"id":106,"date":"2004-10-05T23:01:46","date_gmt":"2004-10-05T23:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccgi.geraldyuen.plus.com\/?p=106"},"modified":"2007-03-01T00:22:25","modified_gmt":"2007-03-01T00:22:25","slug":"nasty-kicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=106","title":{"rendered":"Nasty kicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just spent the evening catching up with Robin. I haven&#8217;t stopped and had a proper conversation with him for a few weeks now. Over the past few weeks we&#8217;ve just exchanged a quick hello when we&#8217;d seen each other, so this evening was good. Most of the evening was spent in the local snooker hall, although I&#8217;m not sure Robin was concentrating as I won five frames to none. Finished off the evening at Nandos in Hounslow East, with a hearty meal of chicken, corn and rice.<br \/>\nOn a completely separate note, I&#8217;ve been playing with <a href=\"http:\/\/gmail.google.com\/\">GMail<\/a> recently as I got an invite a week or so ago and decided to give it a try. As webmail services go, I think this has to be one of the best. The interface is clean and quick, it has a decent contacts facility, and the feature of having one of the most effective search engines keep track of your email for you seems very useful. Now I know there have been concerns raised about privacy, so I&#8217;m still a little cautious, but then what&#8217;s stopping other webmail services handing over your precious data to some government agency after being served the appropriate paperwork? From past performance I think I trust <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/\">Google<\/a> more than I trust <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/\">Microsoft<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/\">Yahoo<\/a> anyway. We&#8217;ll see I guess&#8230;<br \/>\nNow all I need to do is avoid starting up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/games\/pc\/links2003.aspx\">Links 2003<\/a> as otherwise I won&#8217;t go to bed until quite late! (How sad is it that I appear to be addicted to computer golf!?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just spent the evening catching up with Robin. I haven&#8217;t stopped and had a proper conversation with him for a few weeks now. Over the past few weeks we&#8217;ve just exchanged a quick hello when we&#8217;d seen each other, so this evening was good. Most of the evening was spent in the local snooker hall,&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=106\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}