{"id":169,"date":"2007-12-03T20:25:19","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T02:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=169"},"modified":"2007-12-03T20:25:19","modified_gmt":"2007-12-04T02:25:19","slug":"again-with-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=169","title":{"rendered":"Again with the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/future.jpg\" title=\"future.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/future.jpg\" alt=\"future.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is incredibly nice to be in a place with infrastructure!<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph Body\" style=\"line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph Body\" style=\"line-height: 20px\">A few hours after arriving I ducked into a 7-11 and bought a sim card for my cell phone &#8212; it cost about US$10 and took 5 minutes or so to get local service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph Body\" style=\"line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph Body\" style=\"line-height: 20px\">Now I\u2019m sitting in a coffee shop, and I\u2019ve discovered that Singapore just set up Island-wide municipal wifi &#8212; free half-meg service until 2009. \u00a0So I filled out a form online, gave them my mobile number and immediately received an SMS with a login and password.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph Body\" style=\"line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph Body\" style=\"line-height: 20px\">So, this is probably socially inappropriate, but I\u2019m now working while enjoying my kaya toast and ice milk tea. \u00a0There\u2019s outdoor seating at the other end of this mall &#8212; with luck I\u2019ll get service there as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph Body\" style=\"line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph Body\" style=\"line-height: 20px; padding-bottom: 0pt\">The downside to this&#8230; I well, I did have to provide my passport at each step along the way. \u00a0Lots of technology here, but not so much privacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is incredibly nice to be in a place with infrastructure! &nbsp; A few hours after arriving I ducked into a 7-11 and bought a sim card for my cell phone &#8212; it cost about US$10 and took 5 minutes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=169\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}