{"id":1531,"date":"2009-03-16T13:46:39","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T13:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/?p=1531"},"modified":"2022-08-26T08:29:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T08:29:38","slug":"smugness-lost-and-regained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2009\/03\/smugness-lost-and-regained\/","title":{"rendered":"Smugness lost and regained"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lost:<\/strong>\u00a0Just as I was looking forward to another session of doing immeasurable good for very little personal loss, the National Blood Service tell me I can’t\u00a0give blood platelets<\/a>\u00a0and be a blood donor. It’s one register or the other. I’m sure that’s the first time they’ve mentioned it, and since they signed me up for the platelets at a donor session you’d think they could have worked it out. But no. When I phoned today to postpone tomorrow’s session, and mentioned I’m giving blood next week, the lady reacted as if I’d said I wanted to come round and have her on the spot. One of them had to go, and as giving platelets requires a trip into the JR and blood requires popping round the corner from the office, it wasn’t a hard choice to make.<\/p>\n

Regained:<\/strong>\u00a0Firefox crashed on me (irritating) immediately followed by the automatic Apple Crash Reporter (quite amusing). Even more amusing, the latter caused a window to pop up asking if I wanted to relaunch Crash Reporter. I did, and it told me you can’t run Crash Reporter directly, you have to wait for something to crash first.”Quis reportiet ipsos reporter?”\u00a0I thought to myself with bilingual classically inclined cleverness, and resolved to spend the rest of the day pointing out the badly designed native Mac software to anyone who’ll listen, and a few who won’t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lost:\u00a0Just as I was looking forward to another session of doing immeasurable good for very little personal loss, the National Blood Service tell me I can’t\u00a0give blood platelets\u00a0and be a blood donor. It’s one register or the other. I’m sure … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[108,90,20],"class_list":["post-1531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bens-life","tag-blood","tag-computers","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1531"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4154,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions\/4154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}