US Airways 1549

From flightaware.com, the tracklog of US Airways 1549.  

Time Position Ground speed Altitude Facility Eastern TZ Latitude Longitude kts Feet Location/Type 03:26PM 40.80 -73.87 151 1800   New York TRACON 03:27PM 40.83 -73.87 174 2800   New York TRACON 03:27PM 40.86 -73.88 194 3200   New York Center 03:28PM 40.88 -73.90 202 2000   New York TRACON 03:28PM 40.86 -73.93 215 1600   New York Center 03:29PM 40.83 -73.95 194 1200   New York TRACON 03:29PM 40.82 -73.97 191 1300   New York Center 03:30PM 40.78 -74.00 189 400   New York TRACON 03:31PM 40.75 -74.02 153 300   New York TRACON

The 03:31PM Location seems a little south of where the NY Times has the location of the crash.

The World's Most Complicated Alarm Clock

I once stayed at a hotel in Pittsburgh. I needed to be up early the next day, so decided to set the alarm on the clock radio in the room, in addition to using the wake up call.

The clock was branded "Philips Magnavox".

Whatever I tried, I could not work out how to set the alarm. Being very persistent, and contemplating a fairly amusing blog post, I decided to search for the clock's instruction manual on the web.

I found it on the Philips website.

So, what was the trick to get the alarm to work?

Well, the clock has a feature called "Weekend Sleeper" (stops the alarm on the weekend). In order for that feature to work, the clock must know the day of the week. So, needed to set the day of the week, and then the alarm could be set.

This is an example of a non-intuitive user interface. There was no way I could work out how to perform a fairly simple task without reading the friendly manual.