{"id":612,"date":"2008-03-06T22:55:32","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T03:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2008\/03\/06\/cost-of-dinner\/"},"modified":"2008-03-06T23:12:12","modified_gmt":"2008-03-07T04:12:12","slug":"cost-of-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2008\/03\/06\/cost-of-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost of Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" width=\"171\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2270\/2288923185_253e0d6ebd_m.jpg\" height=\"240\" style=\"width: 171px; height: 240px\" \/>I talked about the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/09\/26\/five-minute-rule\/\">five minute rule<\/a>\u00a0last year, but here is one that deals with the cost of technology.<\/p>\n<p>If there is a technology you need\u00a0(USB flash drive, head phones, software upgrade) that costs about as much as dinner at a restaurant, buy it.\u00a0 That&#8217;s my rule.\u00a0 I can have a nice meal at my favorite sushi bar for $20.\u00a0 I can skip the sushi next time if I really need to purchase some technology now.<\/p>\n<p>At UF, our students can buy Office 2007 or 2008 for $10.\u00a0 For that price, it makes no sense using anything else.\u00a0 Vista Ultimate is also $10, but some may argue it&#8217;s not usable even if it&#8217;s free.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll save that discussion for another day.<\/p>\n<p>A great dinner eventually comes to an end and then it is over.\u00a0 A two gigabyte flash drive can last for years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I talked about the five minute rule\u00a0last year, but here is one that deals with the cost of technology. If there is a technology you need\u00a0(USB flash drive, head phones, software upgrade) that costs about as much as dinner at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2008\/03\/06\/cost-of-dinner\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[336],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edtech","tag-edtech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}