{"id":98,"date":"2005-10-04T23:21:02","date_gmt":"2005-10-04T13:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/?p=98"},"modified":"2008-01-10T19:46:48","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T09:46:48","slug":"how-i-got-my-nickname","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2005\/10\/04\/how-i-got-my-nickname\/","title":{"rendered":"How I got my nickname"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- UnMarkedDown_2_01132526438--><\/p>\n<p>How I got my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2005\/10\/03\/hello-good-bios\/\">nickname<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One Wednesday, a couple of years ago, I decided it was finally time to upgrade the RAM in my home PC, to make it run faster.<\/p>\n<p>On the Thursday night, I purchased some RAM and installed it.<\/p>\n<p>On the Friday, I upgraded the BIOS of my motherboard, so it would recognise the new RAM.<\/p>\n<p>On the Saturday, I went on a desperate shopping trip for a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2005\/10\/03\/fridges-and-motherboards\/\">fridge\/motherboard<\/a> to replace the one that got inexplicably fried during the BIOS upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>On the Sunday, I re-installed Windows, which would no longer boot because of the new motherboard.<\/p>\n<p>On the Monday, I sold <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2005\/10\/03\/hello-good-bios\/#comment-829\">Chris<\/a> my four-day old RAM, because <em>it was already obsolete<\/em> &#8211; my new motherboard wouldn&#8217;t take it.<\/p>\n<p>It was a long time before I was thinking about upgrading again. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2005\/10\/03\/changing-views\/\">All that damn system administration work on my computer at home was not fun.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Wednesday, a couple of years ago, I decided it was finally time to upgrade the RAM in my home PC, to make it run faster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,24,35,41],"tags":[226],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-based-on-a-true-story","category-cathartic-rant","category-heroic-failures","category-story-telling","tag-computer-parts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}