{"id":174,"date":"2008-06-24T16:58:19","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T00:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=174"},"modified":"2009-09-23T20:37:59","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T04:37:59","slug":"days-late-and-dollars-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"Days Late and Dollars Short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 12:58, Rod Pereira, owner of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekavailable.com\/\">Geek Available<\/a> (<abbr title=\"also known as\">AKA<\/abbr> <q><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekavailable.com\/\">GeekAvailable<\/a><\/q>) called my cell phone and left a message on my voice mail, saying that he'd been unable to reach me by e.mail and asking me to call him or to send <em>my<\/em> e.mail address to his e.mail address.<\/p> <p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekavailable.com\/\">Geek Available<\/a> got my <abbr title=\"United States Postal Service\">USPS<\/abbr> address and cell-phone number at the same as my e.mail address, when I first gave them my computer for repair, so they've had two other ways of reaching me besides e.mail.  At that time, I was asked to <em>recite<\/em> rather than to <em>write<\/em> my e.mail address, so there may have been a transcription error, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekavailable.com\/\">Geek Available<\/a> should have received a bounce-back from that &mdash; it is unlikely that <abbr title=\"American Telephone and Telegraph\">AT&amp;T<\/abbr> has a user account with anyone of the more typical misspellings.  Certainly <abbr title=\"American Telephone and Telegraph\">AT&amp;T<\/abbr> sends a bounce-back when it rejects e.mail as spam.)<\/p> <p>I have no desire to communicate with Pereira off-the-record, so I sent my e.mail address to his.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At 12:58, Rod Pereira, owner of Geek Available (AKA GeekAvailable) called my cell phone and left a message on my voice mail, saying that he'd been unable to reach me by e.mail and asking me to call him or to send my e.mail address to his e.mail address. (Geek Available got my USPS address and [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,5,4],"tags":[68,268,214,217,215],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-technology","category-personal","category-public","tag-computers","tag-geek-available","tag-geekavailable","tag-laptop-repair-san-diego","tag-rodrigo-pereira"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}