{"id":11,"date":"2005-12-09T08:09:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-09T13:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/blog\/?p=5"},"modified":"2005-12-09T08:09:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-09T13:09:00","slug":"neat-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"neat stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siriuscanada.ca\/\">satellite<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/xmradio.ca\/\">radio<\/a> has launched in canada. I&#8217;m having a hard time with the concept of paying $15 a month to listen to something that has thus far been free. It may be because my radio rarely changes off of AM talk radio. I assume there would be *more* talk radio choices, but CFRA is currently free. If you&#8217;re into music, especially music that isn&#8217;t available on free radio, then it&#8217;s probably a good value. I&#8217;ll reserve final judgement until I get to play with one.<br \/>\n&#8211; our experiment with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zip.ca\/\">online-by-mail<\/a> movie rentals has come to an end. For $25 a month, we were getting 7-8 movies a month max, which works out to a pretty low per-movie charge. However, we rarely got the movies we wanted, especially new releases. So Rogers will start taking even more of our disposable income (phone, internet, cable, game and movie rentals &#8230; they&#8217;ll soon be performing our automotive maintenance).<br \/>\n&#8211; I too am addicted to <a href=\"http:\/\/zone.msn.com\/en\/hexic\/default.htm\">hexic<\/a>. It came preloaded on the xbox 360, and I&#8217;ve played it far more than anything else. For a brief time, I had the 11th highest score in the world! Then more people started playing &#8230; :.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; satellite radio has launched in canada. I&#8217;m having a hard time with the concept of paying $15 a month to listen to something that has thus far been free. It may be because my radio rarely changes off of AM talk radio. I assume there would be *more* talk radio choices, but CFRA is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[13,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}