Weather Dashboard Widget

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From: Leon Brocard
Subject: Weather Dashboard Widget
Date: 19:52 on 20 May 2005
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger (wow, I need to start thinking up longer relase
names) has Dashboard and widgets. It's a pain to develop these (whoa,
there's another hate), but more importantly for this hate it ships
with a weather widget:

  http://images.apple.com/macosx/features/dashboard/images/indexweather20050412.jpg

So I type "London" into the back of it (because Apple has gone UI
crazy and the back of widgets is how you configure them) and am
pleasantly suprised at the massively hot weather that it'll be in
rainy old London. Very surprised. For the next few days, until I
figure out that it is stupid software and showing me the weather for
London, West Virginia.

You see, Dashboard widgets have a completely different UI to
everything else. What I wanted to do was enter "London" and hit
return. Even though there's no button, no form that I can see. Then
it'll give me a list of cities and I can choose "London, United
Kingdom".

Would it be too much to ask to understand that people might mean
"London, UK" a little more than they mean "London, WV"? This is
supposed to be the future, dammit. Stupid software causing me hate
because I have to work around it and guess what it is actually
doing. Gah!

Weather update: 15degC, overcast
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