Tom Morris: 2007-04-04

2007.04.04

Daylight savings time is pointless. It exists only to keep IT people busy fixing their systems. Ars Technica reports that the recent DST change in the states has done very little. 2007-04-04T12:30:45Z

Alex Iskold thinks that we ought to use RSS to deliver structured information. This really is not a very good idea. I have posted a comment explaining why. 2007-04-04T11:40:50Z

Twitter Tube Tracker restored! 2007-04-04T20:30:41Z

The Twitter Tube Tracker has now been restored to former glory. We may have a few teething troubles, but it should all be in fully working order.

I'll be releasing XML and JSON feeds tomorrow, including support for the Apple Dashboard widget.

As Annie Mole put it, I'm looking forward to seeing how crap the Tube really is. More than that though, I'm enjoy seeing people enjoy knowing about the problems with the Tube and be more efficient as a result. Smile and a wink

Public sector organisations like TfL really ought to be providing this data so that people like me can use it. Perhaps they ought to set up a developers network.

Tags: twitter, tube, london, tfl, transportforlondon

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Tom Morris tom@tommorris.org

Currently in: Kent, England

Usually in: East Sussex, England

I am a vegetarian, an atheist, like to code in Ruby and Scala (and Java, but let’s not talk about that), and noodle about with microformats and the Semantic Web.

I have an MA in philosophy from Heythrop College, University of London. My philosophical interests are in analytic metaphysics, ontology, modality, the work of Armstrong, Lewis, Kripke, Russell and Plato. I have a strange, unfulfilled interest in Gadamer’s hermeneutics. I’ve been influenced by Gadamer, by Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Rawls and Nozick.

Musically, I like jazz fusion, soul and P-Funk. My musical nirvana would be a mixture of Beethoven, Miles Davis and George Clinton topped with a side-serving of Erykah, Jill and Angie.

I also write for the Citizendium, an online encyclopedia project. If you know about stuff, you should join in. I occasionally produce audio recordings for The Pod Delusion.

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