{"id":81,"date":"2004-12-17T16:07:30","date_gmt":"2004-12-17T23:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stardel.com\/eg\/?p=81"},"modified":"2004-12-17T16:07:30","modified_gmt":"2004-12-17T23:07:30","slug":"weatherbug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2004\/12\/weatherbug\/","title":{"rendered":"Weatherbug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As an accident of having to install AOL IM on my PC at work, I ended up with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weatherbug.com\/\">WeatherBug <\/a>installed as well. I find it to be a nice little addition to my tool bar, showing the local temperature and alerting me if the forecast changes.  So when I uninstalled the AIM, I decided to leave the WeatherBug.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, when the WeatherBug opens a window at bootup, it seems to corrupt my PC and prevents the other applications from running. So I decided it had to go. As I started to remove the software, WB kept shouting &#8220;Ohhhhh! Noooooo! Mr. Billlll!&#8221; and it asked me if I really wanted to go through with this.  Soft-hearted chump that I am, I relented and agreed to keep the WeatherBug, as long as it didn&#8217;t open a window at boot-up. It can just maintain a presence on the toolbar and we&#8217;ll all be happy.  Or will we? I shall see next week if I have to reboot the PC several times a day. (That was the nice thing about upgrading to the XP OS. I have only had to reboot maybe once a week. ) But, if the WeatherBug doesn&#8217;t crash your PC, it is a nice little toy to have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an accident of having to install AOL IM on my PC at work, I ended up with the WeatherBug installed as well. I find it to be a nice little addition to my tool bar, showing the local temperature and alerting me if the forecast changes. So when I uninstalled the AIM, I decided &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2004\/12\/weatherbug\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weatherbug<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek-stuff","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NpF-1j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}