{"id":402,"date":"2013-10-25T09:12:27","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T09:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/screenshotsfromtheedge\/?p=1"},"modified":"2013-10-25T09:12:27","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T09:12:27","slug":"hello-world-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/screenshotsfromtheedge\/2013\/10\/25\/hello-world-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Why am I doing this?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll start my blog off with a short explanation of what I&#8217;m hoping to achieve with this. Fame, fortune, and a cushy writing job would be nice, but seem unlikely.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m one of the computer support officers in the <a title=\"School of Maths &amp; Physics\" href=\"http:\/\/www.qub.ac.uk\/mp\/\">School of Mathematics and Physics<\/a>. My primary responsibilities involve the <a title=\"Astrophysics Research Centre homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/star.pst.qub.ac.uk\/\">Astrophysics Research Centre<\/a> and School\/Physics clerical staff, though I get to work with colleagues from all over Physics. I&#8217;m also involved with computer-related purchasing, do some research at times (Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in), and even outreach talks about the science of Science Fiction. Day to day I use Macs and Linux systems and I hope that through this blog I can spread various bits of useful information to colleagues in the School and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>This is an experiment. It may work, it may not. Hopefully I learn something along the way.<\/p>\n<p>To those interested, the background image is a snap of the front of my first Mac, a Classic (later upgraded to a Classic II), taken with my iPhone. How we&#8217;ve moved on\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll start my blog off with a short explanation of what I&#8217;m hoping to achieve with this. Fame, fortune, and a cushy writing job would be nice, but seem unlikely. I&#8217;m one of the computer support officers in the School &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/screenshotsfromtheedge\/2013\/10\/25\/hello-world-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":19,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-about"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/screenshotsfromtheedge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2013\/10\/buffy-on-powerbook.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa93hP-6u","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/screenshotsfromtheedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/screenshotsfromtheedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/screenshotsfromtheedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/screenshotsfromtheedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/screenshotsfromtheedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/screenshotsfromtheedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/screenshotsfromtheedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/screenshotsfromtheedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/screenshotsfromtheedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/screenshotsfromtheedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}