{"id":899,"date":"2003-06-30T19:08:49","date_gmt":"2003-06-30T23:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/06\/30\/sidekick-in-the-ass\/"},"modified":"2003-06-30T19:08:49","modified_gmt":"2003-06-30T23:08:49","slug":"sidekick-in-the-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/06\/30\/sidekick-in-the-ass\/","title":{"rendered":"Sidekick in the Ass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a126'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B000078VYT\/104-9614810-8343957?vi=glance\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/sidekik.jpeg\" width=\"147\" height=\"151\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/td>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2003_06_01_archive.html#200443454\">T-Mobile drives a nail into the Sidekick&#8217;s coffin<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Thank goodness I am too cheap to run out and buy all the things I<br \/>\n        absolutely HAVE TO HAVE! This saves me from mistakes like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B000078VYT\/104-9614810-8343957?vi=glance\">T-Mobile<br \/>\n        Sidekick<\/a>, a combo cellphone, PDA, wireless web browser and game player.<br \/>\n        Turns out if<br \/>\n        you ever decide to leave the T-Mobile family, they can remotely incapacitate<br \/>\n        your phone, crash all your software and games, and ERASE ALL THE DATA<br \/>\n        IN THE PDA! Plus it can&#8217;t play mp3&#8217;s.&nbsp;Next contestant, please.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2003_06_01_archive.html#200443454\">Expos&eacute;<\/a> through <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/\">Boing-Boing<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T-Mobile drives a nail into the Sidekick&#8217;s coffin Thank goodness I am too cheap to run out and buy all the things I absolutely HAVE TO HAVE! This saves me from mistakes like the T-Mobile Sidekick, a combo cellphone, PDA, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/06\/30\/sidekick-in-the-ass\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}