{"id":566,"date":"2007-01-01T21:35:42","date_gmt":"2007-01-02T04:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/01\/the-dork-report-for-january-1-2007\/"},"modified":"2023-04-07T15:29:53","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T19:29:53","slug":"the-dork-report-for-january-1-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-january-1-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dork Report for January 1, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>John Siracusa <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/staff\/fatbits.ars\/2006\/12\/22\/6389\">goes to town on .Mac<\/a> (spotted on <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2006\/december#fri-29-siracusa_dot_mac\">Daring Fireball<\/a>). Yes, it&#8217;s expensive, painfully slow, and sometimes unreliable, but I am still totally and utterly wedded to it. I don&#8217;t want it dead, I want it fixed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Lego Digital Designer<\/span> (no longer online: ldd.lego.com) (spotted on <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150130184339\/http:\/\/www.tuaw.com\/2006\/12\/31\/lego-digital-designer\/\">The Unofficial Apple Weblog<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Siracusa goes to town on .Mac (spotted on Daring Fireball). Yes, it&#8217;s expensive, painfully slow, and sometimes unreliable, but I am still totally and utterly wedded to it. I don&#8217;t want it dead, I want it fixed. Lego Digital Designer (no longer online: ldd.lego.com) (spotted on The Unofficial Apple Weblog)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-mini","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dork-report"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa9lhB-98","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":318,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-july-13-2006\/","url_meta":{"origin":566,"position":0},"title":"The Dork Report for July 13, 2006","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"July 13, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"A Geographical Study of Lost (warning: very large image download). 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