ah, those were the days….
When I was in junior high in the early 80s and stretching into the beginning of high school, I was Mr. Metalhead. I’ve been doing a little nostalgia listening today thanks to Iron Maiden. Dude, Maiden rulez!
Posts from September 2002
Navigating the Future
Just a few years ago, if you wanted to map a driving route to a place 500 miles away, you’d need an up-to-date Rand McNally (or similar) road atlas. Even then, those are painted in fairly broad strokes. Now, though, you can use one of the many available Internet-based mapping tools. I’m old enough that I remember life before the net, and I’m still amazed by it nearly every day.
Wednesday, we’re headed off to Kentucky to my little sister’s wedding. It’s an eleven-hour drive from here, but we’re breaking it up by visiting relatives on the way. Not efficient but much more enjoyable than driving eleven hours two out of three days.
Hello? Anybody in there?
I’m back from my laziness-inspired blog break. More to come soon.
More fun with iCal
Despite its shortcomings (I’m looking forward to the 1.1 release), the whole iCal “system” is pretty cool. Several websites have sprung up around iCal.
iCal Exchange is a free service where you can publish your iCal calendars so that others may subscribe to them. It serves as an alternative to Apple’s pricey .Mac service (which has some good features, just not $100/year worth).
iCalShare is a directory/bulletinboard for posting links to iCal calendars published elsewhere. They’ve got a hundred or so already. They also have a great page of links to other iCal resources.
Also, there’s an iCal blog, which covers news, updates, tips, etc. for iCal, but I can’t for the life of me find it right now. I’ll upate this post when I come across it again.
I created an Arkansas Razorbacks Football calendar, published it on iCal Exchange, and posted it to iCalShare.
Apple releases iCal
Apple released iCal. I’ve been playing around with it some, and it’s pretty cool. You can publish your calendars to any WebDAV server (including .Mac), export the calendars to your iPod, etc. It’s a cool little app. I can now dump Palm Desktop for good (since I have iCal and AddressBook).
