Back on February 5, Caltrain agreed to expand the capacity of all their bike cars. Older, Gallery cars would go from 32 spots to 40. Newer, Bombardier cars would go from 16 to 24 spots. Turnaround was quick, with the first expanded car spotted in the wild just 13 days later: NB275 one old gallery …
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Weird jobspam of the day
Why am I getting recruited to be a physical therapist? Return-Path: From: [email protected] Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 12:32:21 -0400 Subject: Nationwide Physical Therapist Search Reply-To: [email protected] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: [email protected] Hello! My name is Tonya Greene and I am currently conducting a nationwide search for Physical Therapist. RCI is …
the app store submission process
Steven Frank explains the app store submission process: Develop app Submit app App rejected Blogs raise a stink App approved
Useless AT&T survey
My friend Rob sends along this fun survey from AT&T. Given the image, any commentary by me would be totally unnecessary.
Translink, you’re breaking my heart
I finally (finally!) got my Translink card. So excited! It now joins my BART EZ Rider card, my MBTA CharlieCard and my WMATA SmarTrip card. (Aside: TTC and (NY)MTA, get on this.) Inside the envelope are several letters and brochures. I head to the Translink web site to add funds to my card. Fail #1 …
Sabre doesn’t get it
NBC in Dallas ran a piece called “Airlines Rethinking Customer Care. In the piece, they talk about airlines using customer data to personalize the customer experience. Yawn. Places like OpenTable and Wyndham have been doing this for years. Great restaurants kept detailed notes on their best customers with pen and paper. The anonymous talking head …
Support BC-STV
British Columbia could become the first jurisdiction in north america to have real electoral reform with STV — Single Transferable Vote. Help them out.
Randall Munroe is a sloppy programmer
The title attribute says “If androids someday DO dream of electric sheep, don’t forget to declare sheepCount as a long int.” Actually, you want to declare sheepCount as an unsigned int.
Mike Lazaridis is on crack
Mike Lazaridis: A: I look at it this way. I say that our browser technology was developed with very different requirements. By writing our browser in Java, that provides our CIOs and wireless managers the assurances they need, to allow the browser to access internal information at the same time it accesses external information. So …
Citability.org slidecast
Citability looks like a terrific, useful project: Citability.org: Using advanced permalinks to make government information more accessible, reliable, and transparent View more presentations from Adrian Parsons.