{"id":320,"date":"2004-09-12T20:25:38","date_gmt":"2004-09-12T12:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/?p=320"},"modified":"2007-10-29T12:03:06","modified_gmt":"2007-10-29T04:03:06","slug":"programmers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/archives\/320","title":{"rendered":"Programmer&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the <font face=\"Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif\">256<\/font>th day of the year&#8230; Programmer&#8217;s Day for leap years.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Programmer%27s_day\" target=\"_blank\">Programmer&#8217;s   Day<\/a> is a whimsical &#8220;holiday&#8221; on the 256th day of the   year celebrated mostly by computer programmers. The reason for this   is that 256 is equal to 2 to the power of 8, which is equal to the   number of values that it is possible to represent in a byte of data.   Traditions include drinking, acting silly, coding silly programs,   mini computer games, playing with old computers, etc. <\/p>\n<p>Programmer&#8217;s   Day usually falls on September 13th; on leap years, it is September   12th, due to the addition of February 29th into the calendar.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><font size=\"2\" face=\"Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia.org<\/a><\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nTen years ago&#8230; it was also on this date that Netscape Navigator was released. <\/p>\n<p>Steve Gillmore: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.zdnet.com\/2100-3513_22-5359616.html?tag=zdnn.alert\" target=\"_blank\">Allchin&#8217;s last stand<\/a>? Looks like these articles derived from Longhorn&#8217;s component split up will never end, eh?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vfug.org\" target=\"_blank\">VFUG September 2004<\/a> Newsletter is out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the 256th day of the year&#8230; Programmer&#8217;s Day for leap years. Programmer&#8217;s Day is a whimsical &#8220;holiday&#8221; on the 256th day of the year celebrated mostly by computer programmers. The reason for this is that 256 is equal to 2 to the power of 8, which is equal to the number of values [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-randomlinks","category-visual-foxpro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}