So I often get annoyed coming home from work that the platform indicator board at South Kensington only displays very close trains. It turns out that the API they offer has lots of useful data, that isn’t shown on the platform displays. Surely that’s not a hard fix if they have the data….. Anyway this …
Monthly Archives: February 2019
Oyster / Oyster Replacement over a wider area (PAYG)
Yes the government are doing a consultation on making more pay as you go options available. This in my opinion really needs doing, but there are two big things I want. One monthly and annual caps (ideally with X day a week options to cover part time commuters). Two if the technology needs replacing add …
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The phone line is fixed
So the phone line did get fixed before 1pm, thank you sky for getting BT openreach to deal with the fault. I am told there was a flood locally with lots of BT vans in the morning, hence guess them fixing that might be related. What was slightly annoying was making sure I was at …
The phone line is down
So I got home to the phones saying check phone line and did the whole moving furniture to check the master socket and still no phone line. The good news is the broadband hasn’t died with it, but of course a half broken phone line makes me worry it will break some more. Sky took …
Uh-oh… I’ve had an idea
Chatting to some friends last night I came up with an idea….. I want to visit a place in the UK for every letter of the alphabet. For each letter I’m going to choose a place I like the sound of and make that the place I go to. My definition of go to is …
Commute with “snow”
So there’s a tiny dusting of snow on the ground and the temperature is above freezing. So far the winter timetable just means less trains, not more reliable ones in my view. This said according to the Met Office forecast it is going to dip back down to zero degrees centigrade, and snow at the …