Edward Vielmetti - Downtown parking information by telephone project: my part is over

Tue, 19 May 2009 05:43:30 +0000

"Sorry I ever brought it up, sorry for any hurt feelings. It was wrong of me to think that I could make any progress without the support of the organization providing the data, and wrong of me to press on regardless of the cost. Someone else will have to care - I give up. It's just not worth it and it's bad for my health to care and to spend too much time around parking structure fumes."

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Edward Vielmetti - I am not an "information activist" or a "civic minded data freak", thank you very much

Tue, 19 May 2009 05:39:16 +0000

"So if I ask for that page of numbers as the spreadsheet it was originally, and a public records officer for a public body gives it to me as a bitmap, I'm going to ask again and keep asking publicly and perhaps uncomfortably until we both understand that this is a routine request and that compliance with routine requests is much easier than making everything an exception - because maybe, just maybe, I can replace that FOIA letter with a tiny shell script and we can just go about our business."

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Edward Vielmetti - Downtown parking information by telephone project: my part is over

Edward Vielmetti - I am not an "information activist" or a "civic minded data freak", thank you very much