{"id":71,"date":"2006-02-05T10:27:11","date_gmt":"2006-02-05T00:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=71"},"modified":"2014-03-29T13:32:07","modified_gmt":"2014-03-29T03:32:07","slug":"spot-the-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=71","title":{"rendered":"Spot the difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for a quick game of Spot the Difference &#8211; Yaayy!!!<\/p>\n<p>I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com.au\/index.php?id=1454103667\">this article<\/a>, dated December 15, 2006 with a timestamp of 16:56:46, and then saw another article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com.au\/news\/business\/soa\/Qantas_CIO_Balfour_resigns\/0,39023166,39227912,00.htm\">here<\/a> with the same date but a timestamp of 05:45 PM &#8211; less than one hour later.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s play:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The first article mentions how &#8220;high-profile&#8221; Balfour is in the first sentence. Lo and behold, so does the second. How &#8220;high-profile&#8221; can she be?<\/li>\n<li>Qantas &#8220;confirmed&#8221; Balfour had &#8220;resigned&#8221; from the airline and would leave in &#8220;March&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>In para two, the spokesperson &#8220;confirmed&#8221; Balfour&#8217;s intention to &#8220;depart&#8221; but did not offer a reason or give &#8220;further details&#8221;. More like a broken record than a spokesperson, no?<\/li>\n<li>Further on, Balfour is now the person responsible for significant IT overhauls at Qantas. Regular as clockwork.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Perhaps I should get a job as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=20\">plagiournalist<\/a>, sitting back and rewriting any good story that takes my fancy. Not a bad gig if you can get it.<\/p>\n<p>Like Hell. I hunt, don&#8217;t gather.<\/p>\n<p>Ask my boss what&#8217;s the quickest and easiest way to get me jumping up and down and screaming &#8211; when I&#8217;m ordered to follow someone else&#8217;s lead&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Rodney<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for a quick game of Spot the Difference &#8211; Yaayy!!! I saw this article, dated December 15, 2006 with a timestamp of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-the-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":752,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}