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Wednesday, September 24, 2003 |
Gary Turner writes:
I propose that on Friday at precisely 2.30am, we all visit our local Safeway stores in our home towns and purchase
1 Pack of Safeway brand AAA batteries
1 Tin of pineapple chunks
1 Bottle of Newman's own Caesar Salad Dressing
1 You've Got A New Job greetings card
[Joho the Blog]
6:55:11 PM 
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I guess I just need to start writing more. I've had a love hate relationship with Calendars for years. I've had and used a plethora of different types of calendars, both electronic and paper types. I've chronicled the problems with the Palm and its weirdness and inconsistency. A side note here, now the power button works sometimes and sometimes not. This causes the unit to randomly turn on and off at will.
So needless to say I'm in the market for a new calendar, electronic or otherwise. No I don't like the iCal. It appears to be fine for a single item, team schedules etc, and then clutters up your calendar as you put in other stuff.
Ray Ozzie reminds us what a fiasco calendars still are:
Each fall, as I manually enter the entire Celtics season schedule, my company's holidays and my childrens' school calendars into my own personal calendar, I am again reminded how ridiculous it is that The Net has not yet ubiquitously embraced the everyday exchange of virtual objects so basic as calendars and as vCards - which can also likewise be subscribed-to, aggregated into Contact Lists and auto-updated via personal RSS feeds. Bizarre. [Ray Ozzie's Weblog]
The situation is perhaps slightly less dismal than that, but not much less. I asked Google for Celtics schedules. It found a CSV file from nba.com that I could download into Outlook, and also an iCal calendar at iCalShare.com that I could subscribe to on the Mac. I don't know how many people have bothered to acquire the Outlook-compatible data, but according to iCalShare's stats, an underwhelming number of Mac folk have subscribed to that version.
[Full story:
The calendar fiasco
]
[Jon's Radio]
6:48:47 PM
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To little to late? Discuss.
"'(JetBlue) decided against further participation unless federally mandated due to concerns for customer privacy and the uncertainty of the final structure of CAPPS II,' the airline said in a written statement."
Some alternative press about your favorite airline. [evhead]
6:36:34 PM
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Consumers Union, the non-profit organization the publishes Consumer Reports, has launched a new website to help keep the pressure on Congress to not let the cellphone companies weasel out of phone number portability, which is slated to go into effect two months from today. Read... [Gizmodo]
6:19:57 PM
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"We've abandoned the idea that work should be a 24-hour-a-day rush and that careers should be a wild adventure."-Po Bronson [Fast Company]
6:12:40 PM
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I hadn't thought about this before. I'm going to read the article and then apply.
More than a must-read, Joe Clark's Compatibility of Weblogs and ISSN is a must-link-to. [Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report]
6:00:48 PM
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Bravo. Glad to see this going on. Shame on you JetBlue.
Passengers are filing a class-action lawsuit against JetBlue Airways for fraudulent misrepresentation, breach of contract and invasion of privacy. Meanwhile, the FTC reviews a privacy group's formal complaint against the airline. [Wired News]
5:55:59 PM
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We have some of these in use at work. Of course the technology is only good if the other party is using it, has it on their person, or has it turned on.
Legislators trying to ban cell-phone use in cars and other places will soon have something else to gripe about: walkie-talkie chatting on cell phones. The new service is expected to be a hit. By Elisa Batista. [Wired News]
5:54:46 PM
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It starts tomorrow thru Saturday. We're going, how about you?
5:25:24 PM
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Maybe a speed bump on the road to getting this in place.
"A federal judge has ruled that the Federal Trade Commission overstepped its authority in creating a national do-not-call list against telemarketers. The ruling came in a lawsuit brought by telemarketers who challenged the list, comprised of names of people who do not want to receive business solicitation calls. The immediate impact of Tuesday's ruling was not clear." (Peter Raymond) [Lockergnome Bytes]
3:54:11 PM
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I'd of thought Microsoft was smarter than this. When I create a new email in Entourage it automatically adds my signature line. However in collaboration with Internet Explorer (IE) and using the send link feature, Entourage comes up and doesn't add the signature line. What's going on here? I'm creating a new email, doesn't Entourage understand that? And why doesn't IE make that connection either. Certainly the folks in Redmond have figured this out. Apparently not!
11:15:03 AM
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© Copyright 2003 Paul W. Swansen.
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