{"id":211,"date":"2001-07-13T23:14:22","date_gmt":"2001-07-14T04:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=211"},"modified":"2001-07-13T23:14:22","modified_gmt":"2001-07-14T04:14:22","slug":"oooh-what-a-lucky-man-he-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2001\/07\/13\/oooh-what-a-lucky-man-he-was\/","title":{"rendered":"oooh what a lucky man he was"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sensible.com\/\">Steve Krug&#8217;s company&#8217;s <\/a>motto: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>&#8220;It&#8217;s not rocket surgery&#8221;<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p>If you hadn&#8217;t been there, you won&#8217;t know, but my business website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\">www.ashleyit.com<\/a>, until recently presented me as a company that provides services.  I&#8217;m not a company.  I don&#8217;t &#8220;provide services&#8221;.  I&#8217;m a guy who loves technology and can provide value to people by having some of that enthusiasm rub off on people I work with when I&#8217;m doing cool scripting stuff for them.  I can help them to figure shit out.  So I changed my site to reflect that.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Since I&#8217;ve been quoting it, I thought it was time to go out and buy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cluetrain.com\">The Cluetrain Manifesto<\/a>.  A lot of it resonates so well with me that reading it is like spending a day whacking myself in the forehead saying <b><i>&#8220;Wow! I coulda had a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.v8juice.com\">V8<\/a>!!&#8221;<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Krug&#8217;s company&#8217;s motto: &#8220;It&#8217;s not rocket surgery&#8221; If you hadn&#8217;t been there, you won&#8217;t know, but my business website, www.ashleyit.com, until recently presented me as a company that provides services. I&#8217;m not a company. I don&#8217;t &#8220;provide services&#8221;. I&#8217;m a guy who loves technology and can provide value to people by having some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}