{"id":900,"date":"2004-01-10T01:13:14","date_gmt":"2004-01-10T01:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-900.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"new-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2004\/01\/10\/new-toys\/","title":{"rendered":"New Toys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2004\/01\/v525.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"leftinline\" \/>As of this afternoon, I&#8217;m the happy owner of a new Motorola v525 phone.  I haven&#8217;t had much time to play with it yet, but the colour screen is nice, the built-in camera is nice, the polyphonic ringtones (with the option to install my own MP3 to play) are nice, the user interface (which I&#8217;d been warned was complicated) is nice, the battery life is <em>very<\/em> nice, and the overall size and feel of the phone in my hand is, well, nice.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t actually called anyone on it yet, so I don&#8217;t know what it&#8217;s going to be like in actual use, but I&#8217;m sure that will be nice, too.<\/p>\n<p>Also, from early next week, we&#8217;ll also be owners of a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiatpunto.com\/\">Fiat Punto<\/a>.  Whether we&#8217;ll be happy owners remains to be seen.  We&#8217;ve resisted having a car for so long that it&#8217;s going to be very odd having one again.  With a new baby (forthcoming) and a toddler, it&#8217;s going to be undeniably useful, and with me making the move into IT contracting (more on that soon), it will increase the range in which I can operate.  But we&#8217;ll have to constantly remind ourselves that it&#8217;s easier to walk, or cycle, or take the bus for many journeys in and around town.<\/p>\n<p>(But on the other hand, it&#8217;s a new toy.  Toys are cool.  The new car is shiny, and it&#8217;s black.  It has a CD player, and adjustable lumbar support in the driver and passenger seats.  Groovy.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2004\/01\/v525.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"leftinline\" \/>As of this afternoon, I&#8217;m the happy owner of a new Motorola v525 phone.  I haven&#8217;t had much time to play with it yet, but the colour screen is nice, the built-in camera is nice, the polyphonic ringtones (with the option to install my own MP3 to play) are nice, the user interface (which I&#8217;d been warned was complicated) is nice, the battery life is <em>very<\/em> nice, and the overall size and feel of the phone in my hand is, well, nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}