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It feels like the whole of Essex (Joey, David) has been in touch to say they can’t track First Essex buses on my website, only on the First Bus app, and to ask tricky philosophical questions like is there a reason and is it permanent. Of course it’s gratifying that they prefer my thing to the official one, and I’m relieved that I don’t sell an app for which they could demand refunds.
(There’s an indie app that has cheekily reverse-engineered various bus operators’ apps rather than using open data, so what’s preventing me doing the same? The threat of First’s lawyers’ flat-nosed geezers?)
By the way, this is a weird bit of the First Bus website’s terms of use (which also prohibit linking to them):
You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our website.
So you’re telling me I must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action? Like I should ask a dentist before waiting for a bus on the basis of the timetable? What else could it mean? And in fact the terms of use are part of the content on their website, so I must obtain advice before obtaining advice.
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This week I mostly watched Veep for the first time, a small delight.
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Someone has written “Nigel Farage is a horrible dickhead” on a litter/recycling bin. It’s a noble sentiment, if not as nice a turn of phrase as “Gary Sambrook eats big dinners”. Actually, the other words on the bin make it “plastic Nigel bottles…” and I feel the writer could have tried harder to incorporate them into the message, “litter” is just a few dabs of paint away from “Hitler” etc.