{"id":158,"date":"2004-08-08T16:57:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-08T16:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=158"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T08:00:00","slug":"microsoft-office-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/08\/microsoft-office-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Office Man!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, I instant messaged my friend Wil to ask what he was up to.  He responded &#8220;Working on a visio graph&#8221;.  Recently, it seems like he&#8217;s always working on a visio graph, or a powerpoint presentation, or an excel spreadsheet, or a word document.  He&#8217;s getting involved in project management, so it&#8217;s not surprising.  But it&#8217;s still kind of funny.  Hence, my response: &#8220;Go, go, Microsoft Office Man!  Use your M.O.M.-power!&#8221;  A couple seconds later, I remarked &#8220;That has the makings of a demented Dilbert-ripoff web-comic &#8211; The Adventures of Microsoft Office Man!&#8221;  I can just picture it now.  &#8220;M.O.M.!  The board just called an emergency situation and need the newest numbers on the budget!&#8221;  &#8220;Never fear, my trusty sidekick Project Manager!  I shall use the automatic linking functions of Excel, and export to a Powerpoint presentation!  Voila!  Witness the power of Microsoft Office Man!&#8221;  Okay, I can&#8217;t make it funny, but I bet somebody who was more bitter than I could.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, I instant messaged my friend Wil to ask what he was up to. He responded &#8220;Working on a visio graph&#8221;. Recently, it seems like he&#8217;s always working on a visio graph, or a powerpoint presentation, or an excel spreadsheet, or a word document. He&#8217;s getting involved in project management, so it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}