{"id":792,"date":"2006-12-27T03:36:18","date_gmt":"2006-12-27T11:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.computerworld.com:\/\/fa3212bdd6de010f13ea68f941d95f26"},"modified":"2006-12-27T03:36:18","modified_gmt":"2006-12-27T11:36:18","slug":"bedrooms-should-be-offline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=792","title":{"rendered":"Bedrooms should be offline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There's a wonderful little article at the Globe and Mail (<b ><A href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20061209.wleah09\/BNStory\/Technology\/?page=rss&amp;id=RTGAM.20061209.wleah09\">Why online should be off limits in the bedroom<\/a><\/b>) about how laptops should be kept out of the bed. The article talks about some more personal reasons why not using your laptop in the bedroom is a good idea, but frankly I think there are some more sensible reasons.<\/p>\n<p>First up, I think it's rude. Reading is a comparatively silent activity, and generally non-intrusive, but using a laptop is far from silent, and there's always the temptation to download a movie or watch a video short. Your partner may want to sleep and using a notebook is probably not going to help.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=OUpVpX\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=OUpVpX\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/66992179\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a wonderful little article at the Globe and Mail (<b ><A href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20061209.wleah09\/BNStory\/Technology\/?page=rss&amp;id=RTGAM.20061209.wleah09\">Why online should be off limits in the bedroom<\/a><\/b>) about how laptops should be kept out of the bed. The article talks about some more personal reasons why not using your laptop in the bedroom is a good idea, but frankly I think there are some more sensible reasons.<\/p>\n<p>First up, I think it&#8217;s rude. Reading is a comparatively silent activity, and generally non-intrusive, but using a laptop is far from silent, and there&#8217;s always the temptation to download a movie or watch a video short. Your partner may want to sleep and using a notebook is probably not going to help.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=OUpVpX\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=OUpVpX\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/66992179\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}