{"id":2422,"date":"2015-07-21T07:53:28","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T11:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=2422"},"modified":"2015-07-21T07:53:28","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T11:53:28","slug":"tuesday-21-july-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2015\/07\/21\/tuesday-21-july-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday, 21 July 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">07:53 &#8211;<\/span> One of the first things I did when I was setting up my Kindle Fire HD last November was install Adblock Plus, despite the large number of <a href=\"http:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/Adblock-Plus\/product-reviews\/B00BXKKNFS\/ref=cm_cr_pr_hist_1?ie=UTF8&#038;showViewpoints=1&#038;sortBy=helpful&#038;reviewerType=all_reviews&#038;filterByStar=one_star&#038;pageNumber=1\">one-star reviews<\/a>. Many of those one-star comments said pretty much the same thing: AdBlock Plus on a desktop\/notebook system was great, but on Android it was crap. They were right. After eight months of suffering frequent proxy server failures, I finally decided just to put up with the ads, so I uninstalled AdBlock Plus. It can&#8217;t be fixed, and the fault lies with Google rather than AdBlock Plus.<\/p>\n<p>So now I&#8217;m seeing ads, and I&#8217;m making a point of clicking on lots of them, just to cost the advertisers money for no return. Not only will I never buy anything from one of those ads, but I&#8217;m keeping a mental list of which companies are placing those ads so I&#8217;ll remember not to buy from them under any circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>More work on science kits today.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>07:53 &#8211; One of the first things I did when I was setting up my Kindle Fire HD last November was install Adblock Plus, despite the large number of <a href=\"http:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/Adblock-Plus\/product-reviews\/B00BXKKNFS\/ref=cm_cr_pr_hist_1?ie=UTF8&#038;showViewpoints=1&#038;sortBy=helpful&#038;reviewerType=all_reviews&#038;filterByStar=one_star&#038;pageNumber=1\">one-star reviews<\/a>. Many of those one-star comments said pretty much the same thing: AdBlock Plus on a desktop\/notebook system was great, but on Android it was crap. They were right. After eight months of suffering frequent proxy server failures, I finally decided just to put up with the ads,<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2015\/07\/21\/tuesday-21-july-2015\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Tuesday, 21 July 2015 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-kits","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}