{"id":50,"date":"2007-03-26T20:19:41","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T04:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shambarger.net\/blog\/?p=50"},"modified":"2011-06-08T20:42:04","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T03:42:04","slug":"kuala-lumpur-new-toy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shambarger.net\/blog\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"Kuala Lumpur, new toy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve touched base with a friend of mine from Yahoo who&#8217;s living in Shanghai, and it looks like I might be able to drop by on my way home and see him!<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, I&#8217;ve noticed that life using the Blackberry as the sole source of internet access is limiting (ie. I can&#8217;t book flights with it), and so I&#8217;ve decided to by a ultra portable.  Sony has a rather sweet Vaio &#8220;G&#8221; that looks perfect, and it&#8217;s quite cheap in KL. I hit the tech stores to compare prices, but after a couple days shopping, I discover that competition is quite effective here, and all the stores quote me nearly the same price (and won&#8217;t haggle). <\/p>\n<p>In the end, I just buy it at the Sony Style store (same price) and get both a warrantee and hopefully some glimmer of legitimacy  There&#8217;s no tax, and the price comes out quite reasonable. I see why there are so many foreigners shopping here. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve touched base with a friend of mine from Yahoo who&#8217;s living in Shanghai, and it looks like I might be able to drop by on my way home and see him! In the meantime, I&#8217;ve noticed that life using the Blackberry as the sole source of internet access is limiting (ie. I can&#8217;t book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scott","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shambarger.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shambarger.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shambarger.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shambarger.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shambarger.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shambarger.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"https:\/\/www.shambarger.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shambarger.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shambarger.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shambarger.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}