{"id":140,"date":"2009-10-07T21:03:47","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T02:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2009\/10\/07\/091007_barcodes\/"},"modified":"2022-03-14T16:33:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T21:33:50","slug":"091007_barcodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2009\/10\/07\/091007_barcodes\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Black and White and Read All Over&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have no idea why the 57th anniversary of the bar code is such a big deal, but when even <a title=\"Report via The Telegraph\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/google\/6267562\/Google-doodle-57th-anniversary-of-invention-of-the-bar-code.html\">Google changes its logo<\/a> in honor of the observance, then we must pay heed.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barcodesinc.com\/generator\/index.php\">this site<\/a> &#8211; it allows you to generate your own bar code &#8211; got swamped today. I couldn&#8217;t resist.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Fire Ant Gazette bar code\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/barcode.png\"><\/div>\n<p>Is it accurate? Who knows? It&#8217;s supposed to be a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Code_128\">Code 128B<\/a> version. And, yet again, I have no practical knowledge of what it means.<\/p>\n<p><i>I found it interesting that at least <a href=\"http:\/\/freebarcodefonts.dobsonsw.com\/code128font-download.html\">one site<\/a> that offers a &#8220;free or donation-requested&#8221; bar code font had disabled the free option for the day. I guess they subscribe to the &#8220;make hay while the sun shines&#8221; business philosophy.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have no idea why the 57th anniversary of the bar code is such a big deal, but when even Google changes its logo in honor of the observance, then we must pay heed. I suspect that this site &#8211; it allows you to generate your own bar code &#8211; got swamped today. I couldn&#8217;t&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2009\/10\/07\/091007_barcodes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Black and White and Read All Over&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8799,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/8799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}