{"id":22,"date":"2006-09-21T18:36:11","date_gmt":"2006-09-22T02:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/?p=22"},"modified":"2021-02-06T20:25:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T04:25:15","slug":"myspace-dot-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"MySpace Dot Count"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being a computer hacker and software guy, I pay attention. As you may know, I think as far as software goes, MySpace is the web equivalent of Microsoft Windows: ugly, cluttered with awkward functionality, bug-ridden, but everyone uses it because everyone else does. Well, except I don&#8217;t use Microsoft Windows. If only Friendster were compatible with MySpace.<\/p>\n<p>An example of the just plain stupidity of MySpace struck me today as I looked at my comments list. At the top of the list was the notation<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Display 37 of 36 Comments&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t bother to count if I had 36 or 37 comments (or who knows, maybe some other number), but how do you manage to get the &#8220;page count&#8221; of comments larger than the &#8220;total number&#8221; of comments? That&#8217;s a special kind of carelessness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being a computer hacker and software guy, I pay attention. As you may know, I think as far as software goes, MySpace is the web equivalent of Microsoft Windows: ugly, cluttered with awkward functionality, bug-ridden, but everyone uses it because everyone else does. Well, except I don&#8217;t use Microsoft Windows. If only Friendster were compatible &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/?p=22\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MySpace Dot Count<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":647,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}