I don’t know if anyone out there who tends to read my blog or follow me on Twitter knows how we can go about dealing with this problem, but Kristin and I just received a late notice on a ticket from New Rochelle. The only problem is that although the ticket has our vehicle tag listed, the color listed is wrong, we never received the initial ticket, and it was issued at 8:45 in the morning while Kristin was at work in the Bronx with the car. We looked up the address on the ticket on Google Maps to be confronted with a residential street where neither of us have ever been. After seeing this was wrong we pulled up a file with other parking tickets that we’ve received and paid in the past.
We had received a late notice once before and we assumed that it was for one time when we parked without paying the meter, so we just paid it without looking closely. Now that we’re actually looking at the ticket information again, we discover that yet again this was a ticket issued around 8:45am in the morning in an area where neither of us have ever been and on a day that Kristin was already at work and parked.
We can get evidence to support all this from the school where Kristin teaches and contest it in court and hope that the judge listens, but clearly there is some mix up between the tags on our car and the tags on someone else’s car. How do we begin to deal with this problem? I would love any advice that anyone out there has to give.
UPDATE: Spoke with New Rochelle Parking Enforcement this morning and someone is looking into it. They have a different colored car listed as the same license tags as us, so it looks like it’s a duplicate tag issue. Hopefully this can all be resolved without us having to go to court or involve any lawyers.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Still no word from Parking Enforcement. I’ll be following up with them in the morning. I just got off the phone with a reporter from the Journal News and @TalkoftheSound aka New Rochelle’s Talk of the Sound who posted about it this morning.
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Dear DataViz and Quickoffice developers:
Have you seen all the recent iPhone OS 3.0 keynotes? They’re pretty amazing. OS 3.0 now supports peripherals that interface with actual applications and a few people who were up on stage at these keynotes demoed some pretty impressive peripherals, like one that takes blood sugar count for people with diabetes. That’s insane.
So, my big question is why hasn’t anyone designed a simple folding keyboard peripheral yet for the iPhone, like all those PDA keyboards that were so popular for so long? I realize that you’re probably limited to making such a device work only with your application and not across the entire device due to Apple restrictions. Please make me a keyboard dock for my iPhone that works with your word processing software and that lets me prop up my iPhone in landscape mode as a screen. If you build such a device and price it reasonably, I will buy it.
I realize you’re not in the hardware game, so might I recommend that you reach out to Belkin, Griffin Technologies, or one of the other leading Apple hardware peripheral makers and partner with them to make this happen?
If you want to design such a device so that it will actually work system wide on the iPhone and iPod touch with any application that uses the software keyboard, but Apple proves to be uncooperative in enabling such an endeavor, I’ll gladly sign multiple online petitions (that Apple will most likely ignore as Apple is wont to do) and talk about it ad nauseum on this blog.
Thanks for your time and attention to this matter. I look forward to seeing what you produce.
Sincerely,
C.K. Sample III
ps—If you’re reading this and you agree, please comment below or retweet this post. If you’re not Dataviz or Quickoffice and you’re designing such a keyboard or you have built such a keyboard, please let me know about it.
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