{"id":1084,"date":"2011-12-29T01:18:54","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T01:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/12\/29\/christmas-loot\/"},"modified":"2017-02-10T02:36:18","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T02:36:18","slug":"christmas-loot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/12\/29\/christmas-loot","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Loot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was supposed to do the whole retail pornography session of the stuff I got myself for Christmas. I&#8217;d usually take pictures like crazy as soon as they got here&#8230; but I realized there was just too much work involved in taking pictures of that much stuff &#8211; so I decided to just link to relevant images\/videos to explain what each of them does &#8211; that way I could also minimize the commentary on each item.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll probably still take pics of them eventually &#8211; but not necessarily for this post. But since I no longer have to wait for them to arrive, I thought I&#8217;d just post about it anyways (since I&#8217;m woefully behind on blog updates)<!--more--><!-- \/\/ --><\/p>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/pb3nT\">PLX Devices 2340 KIWI Wifi<\/a><\/h1>\n<div align=\"center\">\n\n<!-- iframe plugin v.5.1 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"370\" height=\"277\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RF4f3m-HijY\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n<\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to get this for a while now, but always put it off for various reasons. 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