{"id":78,"date":"2004-11-24T15:31:45","date_gmt":"2004-11-24T20:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techory.com\/blog\/?p=78"},"modified":"2004-11-24T15:38:07","modified_gmt":"2004-11-24T20:38:07","slug":"giving-thanks-and-fixing-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/giving-thanks-and-fixing-computers\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving thanks and fixing computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/techory.com\/blog\/wp-photos\/turkey.gif\" width=\"100\" height=\"94\" alt=\"turkey on a laptop\" align=\"left\"\/>I ran across this article about how an entire generation of people also do tech support while visiting home for the holidays.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/6522314\/site\/newsweek\/\">The Tech-Support Generation<\/a> via MSNBC<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Next week, millions of college students and young professionals will head home for the Thanksgiving holidays. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll sit with our families in warm, candle-lit dining rooms eating stuffed turkey, reminiscing over old photographs, preparing holiday shopping lists and \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Please. Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s be frank. We are going home to fix our parents&#8217; computers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>yup&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/entry\/1234000053021444\/\">Engadget also has a quick blurb<\/a> on this &#8211; including links to helpful programs to load onto your usb flash drive before heading home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran across this article about how an entire generation of people also do tech support while visiting home for the holidays. The Tech-Support Generation via MSNBC Next week, millions of college students and young professionals will head home for the Thanksgiving holidays. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll sit with our families in warm, candle-lit dining rooms eating stuffed&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/giving-thanks-and-fixing-computers\/\" title=\"Read Giving thanks and fixing computers\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}