{"id":3613,"date":"2005-08-24T15:22:56","date_gmt":"2005-08-24T15:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/delayed-in-orlando-could-be-worse.html"},"modified":"2005-08-24T15:22:56","modified_gmt":"2005-08-24T15:22:56","slug":"delayed-in-orlando-could-be-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/delayed-in-orlando-could-be-worse.html","title":{"rendered":"Delayed in Orlando &#8212; Could Be Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: \">I just passed through one of the loudest thunderstorms ever on the way to <place w:st=\"on\" \/><city w:st=\"on\" \/>Orlando<\/city \/><\/place \/>&#8216;s airport. This may explain the delay in my flight. Thankfully there is a table here at Outback Steakhouse with a power outlet next to it so at least I can blog while eating salmon. I also noticed that the EVDO is a bit slow here. Or so I thought.<\/p>\n<p>As I recall <place w:st=\"on\" \/><city w:st=\"on\" \/>Orlando<\/city \/><\/place \/> was one of the first cities to have Verizon&#8217;s 1xRTT service and I was one of the first to get on that network in February of 2002 and one of the reasons I switched from the Sprint wireless network was because of the promised speed of 1x. Another reason was that I was traveling to <city w:st=\"on\" \/>Orlando<\/city \/> and <place w:st=\"on\" \/><state w:st=\"on\" \/>Utah<\/state \/><\/place \/>, both cities were some of the first to get the 1XRTT service.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently it isn&#8217;t Verizon that is slow. Google Sidebar has been indexing my PC for days and that is the reason for the sluggishness when I connect to the office. Google only lets you pause indexing for 15 minutes so I need to hit the pause button repeatedly. Hopefully this tool will prove itself useful over time and make up for these minor annoyances.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just passed through one of the loudest thunderstorms ever on the way to Orlando&#8216;s airport. This may explain the delay in my flight. Thankfully there is a table here at Outback Steakhouse with a power outlet next to it so at least I can blog while eating salmon. I also noticed that the EVDO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}