{"id":165,"date":"2006-03-08T08:15:59","date_gmt":"2006-03-08T13:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=165"},"modified":"2008-05-28T15:34:19","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T20:34:19","slug":"what-is-this-1986","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/software-development\/user-interface\/2006\/03\/08\/what-is-this-1986\/","title":{"rendered":"What is This? 1986?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I get my new Mac Mini, connect it, and launch the bundled copy of Quicken 2006. It asks me to personalize it with my name. Simple enough I think, but no. Believe it or not, it won&#8217;t accept &#8220;Elliotte Rusty Harold&#8221; as a name. It gets stuck right before the d. Seems it believes no name can be longer than 20 letters, and &#8220;Elliotte Rusty Harold&#8221; is 21.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img src='\/blog\/images\/quickenreg.png' alt='Personalize your copy of Quicken Enter your name: Elliotte Rusty Harol' width='595' height='280'\/><\/p>\n<p>How old is Quicken? And they still haven&#8217;t fixed this bug? If one of my students made this sort of mistake, I&#8217;d take three points off their homework and make them do it over. When a major consumer facing application like Quicken makes it, I get seriously worried. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I get my new Mac Mini, connect it, and launch the bundled copy of Quicken 2006. It asks me to personalize it with my name. Simple enough I think, but no. Believe it or not, it won&#8217;t accept &#8220;Elliotte Rusty Harold&#8221; as a name. It gets stuck right before the d. Seems it believes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-user-interface","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}