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Updated: 10/1/2002; 5:23:40 AM.

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Thursday, September 12, 2002

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.
4:55:32 PM

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.
4:10:34 PM

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.
8:07:35 AM

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.
8:00:20 AM