Boston radio and school closing/delay announcements

[Dan.Strassberg]

But when you allow multiple listings of individual districts, updates can
become a source of great confusion and annoyance. For example, a late change
might result in West Newton showing a delayed opening but Newton, West
showing closed. When you've made one change for a district, it's very easy
to believe that you have updated all of the info for that district.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Francini" <francini@mac.com>
To: <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 6:48 AM
Subject: Re: Boston radio and school closing/delay announcements


>
> It really wouldn't take all that much coding to make the no-school apps
> sort the names in "library" order, where for sorting purposes compass
> directional names and articles (a, an, the) are considered to be attached
> to the *end* of the name with a comma.  .
>
> Thus, in a no-school list for towns, you'd see:
>
> Andover
> North Andover
> .
> .
> .
> Newton
> West Newton.
> .
> .
> Beaver Country Day School
> The Best School
> Boston College
>
>
> Now of course this would likely mess up people who have grown used to the
> incorrect (i.e., lazy) sorting, so I suppose you'd have to do both. (In
> other words, "West Newton" would show up in both the Newtons and the Ws on
> the list. If they're not being read aloud it doesn't matter so much.)
>
> j
>
>
>
> On 13 Feb 2013, at 1:02, A Joseph Ross <joe@attorneyross.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2/12/2013 9:40 PM, Bob DeMattia wrote:
>>
>>> While we are on the subject, a pet peeve:
>>>
>>> The towns/districts are listed in "computer alphabetical order".  Thus
>>> towns like
>>> "North Andover" and "North Reading" will be listed before towns like
>>> "Northborough"
>>> and "Northbridge".  This is because the computer includes the space
>>> character
>>> when alphabetizing the names - something my grade school teacher told me
>>> not to do!
>>
>> Many things are changed by the needs of technology.  When I was in
>> school, I learned that noon was 12:00 AM and midnight was 12:00 PM. Since
>> the proliferation of digital devices, it has been the opposite.
>>
>> -- 
>> A. Joseph Ross, J.D.|92 State Street|Suite 700|Boston, MA 02109-2004
>> 617.367.0468|Fx:617.507.7856|http://www.attorneyross.com
>>
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