Track the T

[davidn]

As it's been at least eight hours since I mentioned this last, I want to mention that the MBTA officially launched their real-time bus information yesterday, which hopefully means that future feed updates won't break this entirely any more. I would now be very grateful for the inclusion of the CT2, if I hadn't moved house and therefore passed the point where it would be useful to me in the time it took to get it up there.

They now have an application showcase, and I'm in it with a reworking of my bus tracker in a mobile-friendly page called Track the T. I was also given a passing mention on boston.com for it yesterday (I had wondered why the 558 seemed so disproportionately popular compared to the other routes). The addition of a Facebook button does wonders for addictiveness of checking its popularity - about 30 people have shared it so far and I haven't even promoted it myself yet.

Speaking vaguely of other works of mine (but unrelated in reality), I'm thinking of entering the inherently mockable Kamelot "Poisoned Pen" poetry competition with an expectation-defying meta-epic in limerick form, ending with the line "Roy Khan do what Vanderbilt Khan't". But it'll need a bit more fleshing out before then.