{"id":292,"date":"2002-02-15T17:39:42","date_gmt":"2002-02-15T22:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=292"},"modified":"2002-02-15T17:39:42","modified_gmt":"2002-02-15T22:39:42","slug":"skating-smackdown-one-of-the-evil-ns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2002\/02\/15\/skating-smackdown-one-of-the-evil-ns\/","title":{"rendered":"Skating Smackdown, One of the Evil Ns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0100243\/\">Mary Wehmeier<\/a> has a lot of perspective on this Olympic skating judging scandal.  I sent her an email with my observations:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIt confuses me that the French judge is getting all the flack for turning her decision one way or the other, when nobody is<br \/>\nquestioning at all the implication that every other judge had an entirely fixed position from the outset &#8211; Canadian, American,<br \/>\nRussian judges alike.  Sounds like the French judge was the only one accorded any sort of free will at all!  If it had been the<br \/>\nRussians&#8217; perfect skate and the Canadians&#8217; error, would it still have been voted the same by each judge with the French judge<br \/>\nas the swing vote, I wonder?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p>scottandrew speaks for all of us when he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottandrew.com\/weblog\/000150\">points out<\/a> a few of the reasons why Netscape (at least 4.x) is one of the Three Evil &#8220;N&#8221;s which send my spidey senses reeling when introduced to a project. ( the other two are Notes and Novell, fyi )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Wehmeier has a lot of perspective on this Olympic skating judging scandal. I sent her an email with my observations: It confuses me that the French judge is getting all the flack for turning her decision one way or the other, when nobody is questioning at all the implication that every other judge had [&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-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","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=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}