Bill Watt’s Blog

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.

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