Evan Williams reminds me that my search for the perfect calendar software would be over, if only I used a Mac. iCal looks sweet. My goal is to have an online calendar that doesn't tie me to any company or client, but interfaces well with their chosen corporate calendar systems - usually Outlook. So far, I've found nothing I like in the Win2K world, so I flit among 2 or 3 calendars supplied by clients, hoping that I don't miss appointments because I have no integrated view.
After a little confusion on my part, I've gotten a nice new RU tool installed and working. The tool creates a picture gallery, adding a badly-needed feature to Radio. I'll link the newly-enabled picture gallery into this site Real Soon Now. Thanks to David Davies, who authored the tool and submitted cheerfully to my questions about invoking it. It's pretty amazing, actually - I'm using a complex bit of software (RU), for only $40, and others around the world are extending it, adding features and grass-roots support. David, for example, lives somewhere in the UK, and here I sit in San Diego getting email help from him, gratis. I've been using the Internet in one form or another since the 80's, and its reach still amazes me.
Got the picture tool working again. I think last night's problem was in the RU cloud, not the tool itself. Here's one of the promised Yosemite pictures, showing the two intrepid wilderness chicks in full hiking regalia.
BTW, this JPEG was 11 MB (!) on the camera. I've taken a lot of photos, but I was surprised by the size. The immensely detailed background is the likely culprit. Using Photoshop to prepare the JPEG for the web brought the size down to a few hundred KB, but...whoa. I've gotta rethink my digital picture storage and publishing tools if I'm getting >10MB per photo.
Another note on pagerank. Google's cached copy of my site - used to feed any/all searches - is 5 weeks old. That's not surprising, as the web is a pretty big place these days (2,469,940,685 web pages, according to Google's home page), and I can easily imagine that minor sites only get crawled and cached once a month. That may explain the low pagerank, but it doesn't explain the brand-new, 1-post weblogs I've seen with higher rankings. Just one more item in today's quest for deterministic behavior.
I really wanted to share some pictures from the DM 9-11 tribute yesterday, but I'm having problems with the Radio Picture Tool again. When it works, it's great, but...something's not quite right. Digital machines that exhibit analog behavior are really irritating.
Got the picture tool working again. I think last night's problem was in the RU cloud, not the tool itself. Here's one of the promised Yosemite pictures, showing the two intrepid wilderness chicks in full hiking regalia.
