Edward Vielmetti - Downtown parking information by telephone project: my part is over
http://vielmetti.typepad.com/vacuum/2009/05/downtown-parking-project-over.html
"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."
Edward Vielmetti - I am not an "information activist" or a "civic minded data freak", thank you very much
http://vielmetti.typepad.com/vacuum/2009/05/i-am-not-an-information-activist-or-a-civic-minded-data-freak-thank-you-very-much.html
"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."