{"id":6004,"date":"2016-09-03T23:40:23","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T03:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=6004"},"modified":"2016-09-03T23:40:23","modified_gmt":"2016-09-04T03:40:23","slug":"anniversaries-and-small-screens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=6004","title":{"rendered":"anniversaries, and small screens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started this blog <a href=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=5\">on August 21, 2005<\/a>, so that&#8217;s eleven freakin&#8217; years ago. 741 posts. <\/p>\n<p>Well, one more now.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, pretty cool. <\/p>\n<p>I know I missed the actual anniversary, but I missed it by less than usual. I think last year I missed it completely, and that was the tenth anniversary. <\/p>\n<p>Oh, well. <\/p>\n<p> &nbsp;  <br \/><strong>cellphones and novels<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=3995\">another subject<\/a>, I&#8217;ve realized that the problem with doing a lot of writing on a phone, at least for me, is not the keyboard. Practice helps with that. <\/p>\n<p>What practice won&#8217;t help with is the size of the screen. <\/p>\n<p>In general, other than jotting down a few notes, my phone doesn&#8217;t show me enough for me to write more. A tablet does, even a small one, but not a phone. <\/p>\n<p>It was helpful to figure that out. It may be different for other people, but everybody has to figure out what works for them.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-bottom-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F6004&#038;print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F6004&#038;print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started this blog on August 21, 2005, so that&#8217;s eleven freakin&#8217; years ago. 741 posts. Well, one more now. Hey, pretty cool. I know I missed the actual anniversary, but I missed it by less than usual. I think last year I missed it completely, and that was the tenth anniversary. Oh, well. &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-news","category-tech-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6004"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6006,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6004\/revisions\/6006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}