{"id":249,"date":"2001-10-29T06:12:23","date_gmt":"2001-10-29T11:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=249"},"modified":"2001-10-29T06:12:23","modified_gmt":"2001-10-29T11:12:23","slug":"when-push-comes-to-well-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2001\/10\/29\/when-push-comes-to-well-push\/","title":{"rendered":"when push comes to, well, push."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know how I could never have heard about these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fluidiom.com:8080\/\">Pushlets<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>  Every once in a while I do the ego search thing &#8211; you know, put your name into Google and see what comes up.  I find a lot of neat things &#8211; old QuickBASIC and 8086 assembler stuff I did in the late 80s, people talking about my JSRS library, blog references.<\/p>\n<p>  I also find the odd Brent Ashley who isn&#8217;t me at all.  There&#8217;s a young university sports star in southern Ontario, a motel owner in Maryland, a beekeeper in the midwest, a producer with Amphetamine Records, a skateboard phenom kid, an alumnus of Southampton University, a high school saxophone soloist in Spokane.<\/p>\n<p>  For all the Dave Smiths and Bob Johnsons in the world, it mustn&#8217;t be such a weird thing, but for me, it&#8217;s way odd to think of running into someone with the same damn name.  I remember working in an office with another Brent a few years back and it was crazy, my head snapping back and forth every time his name was called.<\/p>\n<p>  I wonder how many of them have found me on the net and thought the same thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know how I could never have heard about these Pushlets. Every once in a while I do the ego search thing &#8211; you know, put your name into Google and see what comes up. I find a lot of neat things &#8211; old QuickBASIC and 8086 assembler stuff I did in the late [&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-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","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=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}