{"id":556,"date":"2008-01-09T07:50:03","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T12:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/archives\/556"},"modified":"2008-01-09T07:52:57","modified_gmt":"2008-01-09T12:52:57","slug":"hello-strange-little-popup-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/archives\/556","title":{"rendered":"Hello strange little popup friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" id=\"image555\" alt=\"battery is dying\" src=\"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/battery_is_dying.png\" \/>Apparently, my battery is dying. As you can see in the photo, my computer is proudly displaying the fact that my battery is &#8220;reaching the end of its usable life.&#8221; I&#8217;m not sure what that means, but boy would I like to know more.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, when I click on that little weird box that does not look like any other information dialog on my computer, it simply disappears. Is this Dell warning me that <a title=\"battery explodes\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/gadgets\/laptops\/dell-laptop-explodes-in-flames-182257.php\">something really bad is about to happen to my battery<\/a>, or are they just giving a simple nudge that maybe the support team at work should ship me a new one, on the double? Alternatively, is this a sign of malicious activity on my machine?<\/p>\n<p>Well I just don&#8217;t know. Weird little non-modal appear-at-random-times popup friend, who are you? And what do you really mean to tell me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, my battery is dying. As you can see in the photo, my computer is proudly displaying the fact that my battery is &#8220;reaching the end of its usable life.&#8221; I&#8217;m not sure what that means, but boy would I like to know more. Unfortunately, when I click on that little weird box that does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,21,10,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-professional","category-rambling","category-technology","category-thoughtworks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}