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Squandered some time logging old public transport journeys on TransitTracker (FKA Busmiles) for the small satisfaction of covering the “all time map” with more and more squiggly lines. This means doing a sort of digital self-archaeology, finding old emails from train ticket retailers and stuff.
Past me is a mysterious and unknowable figure, e.g. in 2014 I booked a ticket to Glasgow, pretty cheap by today’s standards, but I have no memory of going there then, and I found a photo whose timestamp proves I was elsewhere that day (the 24th of September) so what was that about? (Of course I’ve been there on other days that I do remember, along the same bits of railway track, so for the purposes of squiggles it doesn’t matter.)
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I added some buses in Las Vegas to bus times dot org for some reason. There was some speculation that this meant I was on holiday there – not on your nelly. It was just a “fun” “challange” to make the thing cope with different timezones, it wasn’t that difficult actually.
On Sunday, I learnt that the next day was a special bank holiday in Scotland (in honour of the World Cup, oddly not on a day when Scotland were playing but you don’t look a day off in the mouth). I was alarmed and disappointed that the typical England-centric folks hadn’t issued any timetable data guidance like they had for the royal funerals and coronations, but I quickly calmed down as it seemed like most operators would treat it as a normal Monday. Still, it’s slightly the sort of thing that suggests that expanding the coverage of the website, spreading my attention more thinly, is a bad idea after all.