{"id":289,"date":"2012-02-02T21:53:31","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T10:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monolith.com.au\/blog\/?page_id=289"},"modified":"2012-02-02T21:54:59","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T10:54:59","slug":"technology-and-gadgets","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/monolith.com.au\/blog\/follow-rods-travels\/about\/technology-and-gadgets\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology and Gadgets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/monolith.com.au\/blog\/?attachment_id=280\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-280\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-280\" title=\"AFG-060724-021\" src=\"http:\/\/monolith.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/AFG-060724-021-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"satellite\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monolith.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/AFG-060724-021-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/monolith.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/AFG-060724-021-320x400.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>In a past life, Rod used to work at a commercial radio station, running cables, wiring looms and fixing stuff. He studied for the Broadcast Operators Certificate of Proficiency and could assemble a 10kW vacuum tube transmitter blindfolded. Not much call for that these days. He worked front-of-house sound for rock bands and knew the difference between a decibel and a megaohm. He and technology have come a long way since then, but Rod still has a knack of decoding geek-speak and translating it for mass market consumption. Today he\u2019s happy to tackle anything from telecommunications, personal computing and digital gadgets to satellite broadcasting for lifestyle, leisure and niche magazines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe pace of technological change today is staggering,\u201d says Rod, \u201cand keeping up with it all is a full time job. In that respect, I\u2019m just like regular folks with a fascination for new things, how they work and what you can do with them. Nowadays, however, if smoke comes out of something, it goes in the bin.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a past life, Rod used to work at a commercial radio station, running cables, wiring looms and fixing stuff. He studied for the Broadcast Operators Certificate of Proficiency and could assemble a 10kW vacuum tube transmitter blindfolded. Not much call for that these days. He worked front-of-house sound for rock bands and knew the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-289","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monolith.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monolith.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monolith.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monolith.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monolith.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/monolith.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"https:\/\/monolith.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/289\/revisions\/297"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monolith.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monolith.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}