{"id":143,"date":"2005-01-02T16:24:49","date_gmt":"2005-01-02T16:24:49","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-01-02T16:24:49","modified_gmt":"2005-01-02T16:24:49","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=143","title":{"rendered":"So, it&#8217;s 2005 &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we&#8217;ve reached 2005 at last.  This year with be Bandwidth Year, once work moves to new premises in June.<\/p>\n<p>Christmas and related stuff: Have finally got &#8220;Lord of the Rings: Return of the King&#8221; on DVD, although have not yet found a free four-hour slot to watch it!  Also, got a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0072193840\/qid=1104682768\/sr=1-1\/ref=sr_1_2_1\/026-0291120-6378003\">Hacker&#8217;s Challenge<\/a>, which gives a number of security incident scenarios where you have to figure out what went wrong &#8211; seems quite good.<\/p>\n<p>And one thing about the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/in_depth\/world\/2004\/asia_quake_disaster\/default.stm\">Asia earthquake\/tsunami<\/a>.  Listen up, broadcasters: when the death toll is running in excess of 100,000, don&#8217;t you think that it&#8217;s rather tasteless to argue the toss over whether the British death toll is 20 or 25 or whatever?  We are talking about the population of a small city dead and millions made homeless &#8211; this is a huge, natural disaster.  Trying to give casualty figures by nationality &#8220;in order of importance&#8221; is rather sad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we&#8217;ve reached 2005 at last. This year with be Bandwidth Year, once work moves to new premises in June. Christmas and related stuff: Have finally got &#8220;Lord of the Rings: Return of the King&#8221; on DVD, although have not yet found a free four-hour slot to watch it! Also, got a copy of Hacker&#8217;s&#8230;&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=143\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}