Archive for October 28th, 2007

Will.I.Am

Sunday, October 28th, 2007

Since I was telling Hima this a while back I might as well come clean. I wish I had thought of calling myself Will.I.Am. My parents would not be sharing this at the next Christmas party and I’m sure Alice would put this in the same box with the “odd” music I listen to but oh yes… I would have been all over that! ;-)

Maybe when I make my next big change I’ll start telling people to call me that. They won’t know any better and it’ll be a clean break from the baggage that my current name carries from the years of me doing bad things under that. Nom de plume (and ridicule) here I come! ;-)

Why can’t we get things to work consistently

Sunday, October 28th, 2007

So, I jump in the car today to get coffee and notice that my clock is wrong. Since I am clueless about such things as seasonal time changes I look at my blackberry, see nothing has changed, and then am left to wonder which is right. I should have realized that my $300 blackberry was patched specifically for this new change process but that my brand new, nearly $50k Acura MDX didn’t get the news.

I understand that old appliances and things that aren’t connected to the Internet will have problems with the time change they’re not expecting but I own a ton of stuff that is connected in one manner or other and I expect those will just change. My car is getting tons of data via GPS and bluetooth… isn’t on of those bits of data the current time? It knows where I am and can do the offset easily.

As an aside- I’m also not sure why my car’s GPS system doesn’t (A) remember the last city I searched or (B) default to all listings that match my search sorted by distance to me. I was looking for a Pete’s coffee yesterday (meeting a friend… not my choice ;-) ) and it started with a different Pete’s business that was alphabetically ranked higher but was hundreds of miles away. I know searching on a console is not exactly simple but I would love if the default sort was a setting like so many other pieces and then I could make the problem go away for me while other people could blissfully search alphabetically.

I think this is what the abundance of search options on the web has taught me… I should be able to get relevant rankings.