jorge's jome

So, I go out to my truck this afternoon. If you live in southern California, then you know it has been raining for most of the day today. I get to my truck and notice the windows are halfway down. For those that don't know, I drive a Nissan Titan. Pretty damn nice truck, too. I love it. So, anyway, I'm like, WTF? I know I didn't roll the windows down, it has been pretty cold and, if anything, I've been using the heater. Now the inside of my truck is pretty wet and I'm more than a little annoyed. Turns out, there is a "feature" with the remote keylock which allows you to open the windows remotely by pressing and holding the unlock key. Yeah, I wonder who the genius was that thought that was a good thing to do. The unlock key must have gotten pressed somehow (I always have my keys in my pocket) and I was completely unaware. Now I get to sit in a rain-soaked seat while I drive around. Nice. I became aware of this "feature" by searching the web looking for possible reasons my windows seemed to roll themselves down. Interestingly, there are lots of other owners who have had the same thing happen to them, and it always seems to happen when it's raining or snowing. :)

Posted by at 8:42 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

It's a sad day...I've decided to remove my weather podcast. The reason for this is an email I received from weather.com which clearly outlines their T&C for use of their XML data feed. Specifically, I am concerned about these conditions:

"YOU MAY NOT USE THE SERVICE IN CONNECTION WITH AMONG OTHER THINGS...AS ALL OR PART OF ANY STREAMING VIDEO OR AUDIO CONTENT OR FOR DELIVERY BY ANY MEANS OTHER THAN STATIC DISPLAY ON A TRADITIONAL WEB PAGE ON YOUR WEBSITE OR DESKTOP APPLICATION."

"Your Website or Desktop Application must...display weather data for no more than three (3) locations at a time..."

I am most likely in violation of one or both of these. The whole T&C seems to go against all of the reasons that would drive you to provide an XML feed in the first place...to me, at least. It certainly makes it impossible to use for any type of mashup or any other interesting app.

So, I can get weather data for no more than 3 locations and can only display it as a static web page...whoopdeefuckingdo. Completely useless.

Posted by at 12:32 PM | Permalink