{"id":1124,"date":"2009-10-24T14:20:22","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T14:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2009-10-24T14:20:22","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T14:20:22","slug":"e-commerce-was-supposed-to-be-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1124","title":{"rendered":"E-commerce was supposed to be easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I bought a television series on DVD online. One of the DVDs appears unreadable. I noticed some scratches on it, but I also noticed that it happened to carry the HD DVD label. Is it possible that one of the disks in the boxed set was mistakenly an HD DVD? Unfortunately, I don&#8217;t have an HD DVD drive in which to test it.<\/p>\n<p>Which reminded me that I&#8217;ve actually been meaning to buy an HD DVD drive before they vanish completely, just to be able to read HD DVDs in case I come across any. I looked and found one online that I liked. I tried to buy it&#8230; only to be informed repeatedly by Yahoo shopping that &#8220;t<span>here was a problem saving your information and basket&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>No matter, it can wait&#8230; I&#8217;ve also been meaning to do another thing this morning, namely to buy a new Microsoft Developer Network subscription. So I went to the MSDN Web site, clicked all the right buttons, logged in with my blasted Microsoft Live ID, and presto&#8230; I was told by Microsoft that they &#8220;<span id=\"ErrorMessageText\">are unable to validate your customer information and proceed with your order at this time&#8221;<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Looks like The Powers That Be just don&#8217;t want me to spend any money this morning. No matter, I have better things to do with it&#8230; and with my time, too.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1124' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I bought a television series on DVD online. One of the DVDs appears unreadable. I noticed some scratches on it, but I also noticed that it happened to carry the HD DVD label. Is it possible that one of the disks in the boxed set was mistakenly an HD DVD? Unfortunately, I don&#8217;t have <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1124' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-internet","category-19-id","category-6-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1125,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions\/1125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}