{"id":165,"date":"2007-04-19T02:16:18","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T08:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/?p=165"},"modified":"2007-11-02T21:53:17","modified_gmt":"2007-11-03T03:53:17","slug":"actually-impressed-by-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/actually-impressed-by-microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"Actually Impressed by Microsoft?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazing, yet true. Several months ago, I spent a bit of time searching for a decent converter program. Or would it be a conversion program? Whatever, a program to convert things to other things. No, I don&#8217;t mean like converting lead to gold, though  such could probably be found on eBay. I don&#8217;t remember what I wanted to convert at the time. Maybe square feet to acres, or something like that. I found a couple of progs to do what I wanted, and quit searching. Tonight, I was searching for something to calculate download time from file size. I had a web page I saved from somewhere that did it, but decided to look around some more. And I found Microsoft&#8217;s &#8220;Calculator Plus&#8221;. It&#8217;s a replacement for the plain calculator MS gives you with Windoze. And it&#8217;s actually pretty cool. Besides calculator stuff (standard and scientific), it does conversions, including feet to chains. Doesn&#8217;t do rods, though, but everybody knows there&#8217;s 4 rods to a chain. <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/duydr\" title=\"Download page for Microsoft Calculator Plus\">Here&#8217;s the link<\/a>, if anybody&#8217;s interested.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t do download times, though. However, it does currency exchange, which may be of interest to those who get up too early in the morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazing, yet true. Several months ago, I spent a bit of time searching for a decent converter program. Or would it be a conversion program? Whatever, a program to convert things to other things. No, I don&#8217;t mean like converting lead to gold, though such could probably be found on eBay. I don&#8217;t remember what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","comment-closed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}