{"id":2834,"date":"2008-06-27T12:46:49","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T12:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/06\/27\/bill-gates-wtf-man\/"},"modified":"2008-06-27T12:46:49","modified_gmt":"2008-06-27T12:46:49","slug":"bill-gates-wtf-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/27\/bill-gates-wtf-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates:  WTF, man?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is this some kind of sick joke?Do you remember when Bill Gates retired from Microsoft?  There was even a YouTube video about it:<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/i1M-IafCor4&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><\/object>That was, like, six months ago.So why do we see this reported on the BBC web site:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The chairman of Microsoft and one of the world&#8217;s richest men, Bill Gates, is stepping down from his job running the world&#8217;s largest software company.Mr Gates, who made his fortune through developing software for the personal computer, plans to devote his time to charity work.<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/business\/7476720.stm\">source<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And then, at the end of that very same BBC piece, we have this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He will remain as Microsoft&#8217;s chairman &#8230; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ll say it again:  WTF?????It&#8217;s like freakin&#8217; groundhog day or something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is this some kind of sick joke?Do you remember when Bill Gates retired from Microsoft? There was even a YouTube video about it:That was, like, six months ago.So why do we see this reported on the BBC web site:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[57],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-JI","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}