{"id":836,"date":"2009-02-22T16:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T16:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=836"},"modified":"2010-01-11T23:42:45","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T23:42:45","slug":"good-with-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2009\/02\/good-with-computers.html","title":{"rendered":"Good with Computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">So today I hacked together a crude many-to-many relational database in Microsoft Access. Yes, I&#8217;ve been <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/283878\">normalising data to reduce inconsistent dependencies<\/a>. Blech. I shuddered just typing that out. <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It doesn&#8217;t help that &#8216;normalisation&#8217; means something completely different in the sound editing software I&#8217;ve been using for years, thus turning every piece of helpful database advice on the web into gibberish. Speaking of music software, I also spent many hours this weekend trying to figure out why some of my software was serenely ignoring every piece of MIDI data I sent to it, in a vain effort to control it.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tonight I finally figured it out.  I forgot I&#8217;ve got a new computer, and hadn&#8217;t installed the little widget that makes all the music programs talk to each other.  Durhey.  I was about to speculate how this kind of thing is more likely these days, with so much technical stuff being handled invisibly in the background by computers, but then I realised that I&#8217;m equally capable of overlooking that  the real reason a piece of equipment is unresponsive is because it is not plugged in.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So today I hacked together a crude many-to-many relational database in Microsoft Access. Yes, I&#8217;ve been normalising data to reduce inconsistent dependencies. Blech. I shuddered just typing that out. It doesn&#8217;t help that &#8216;normalisation&#8217; means something completely different in the sound editing software I&#8217;ve been using for years, thus turning every piece of helpful database [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3962,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions\/3962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}