{"id":12883,"date":"2010-09-13T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2010\/09\/13\/ha-ha-the-speaker-gift-is-a-speaker-get-it\/"},"modified":"2010-09-13T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T07:00:01","slug":"ha-ha-the-speaker-gift-is-a-speaker-get-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20100913-01\/?p=12883","title":{"rendered":"Ha ha, the speaker gift is a speaker, get it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a thank-you for <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2010\/07\/22\/10041191.aspx\"> presenting at TechReady11<\/a>, the conference organizers gave me (and presumably the other speakers) a portable speaker with the Windows logo printed on it.\n The speaker underneath the logo is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.x-mini.com\/online-shop?page=shop.product_details&amp;category_id=1&amp;flypage=flypage.tpl&amp;product_id=5\"> X-Mini II Capsule Speaker<\/a>, and I have to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/stevecla01\/archive\/2010\/08\/15\/mini-speaker.aspx\"> agree with Steve Clayton<\/a> that they pack a lot of sound in a compact size. Great for taking on trips, or even picnics.\n It&#8217;s been a long time since I <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2006\/07\/31\/684106.aspx\"> last recommended a Christmas gift for geeks<\/a>, so maybe I&#8217;ll make up for it by giving two suggestions this year.\n The second suggestion is a response to a comment from that old article: My bicycle lock is just a laptop combination lock that I repurposed as a bicycle lock. It&#8217;s a pretty clumsy design for a laptop lock, since <a href=\"http:\/\/dealsproshop.auctivacommerce.com\/Laptop-Lock-with-retractable-cable-and-safe-combination-P611913.aspx\"> it comes in two parts, one of which is easy to lose<\/a>, but if you just &#8220;accidentally&#8221; lose the clip part, what&#8217;s left is a simple cable combination lock that easily tucks into a side pocket of my bicycle trunk bag. Yes, that lock isn&#8217;t going to stop a dedicated thief for very long, but fortunately, the Microsoft parking garage is not crawling with dedicated thieves because, as a rule, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2009\/11\/26\/9928892.aspx#9929126\"> Microsoft tries not to hire dishonest people<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> So, um, that&#8217;s a suggestion for a bicycle lock for somebody who lives in a low-crime area. Hm, maybe that&#8217;s not a very good suggestion after all. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a thank-you for presenting at TechReady11, the conference organizers gave me (and presumably the other speakers) a portable speaker with the Windows logo printed on it. The speaker underneath the logo is the X-Mini II Capsule Speaker, and I have to agree with Steve Clayton that they pack a lot of sound in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-12883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>As a thank-you for presenting at TechReady11, the conference organizers gave me (and presumably the other speakers) a portable speaker with the Windows logo printed on it. The speaker underneath the logo is the X-Mini II Capsule Speaker, and I have to agree with Steve Clayton that they pack a lot of sound in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}