I've just been playing with Yahoo Calendar to get ideas for my own calendar/task manager. It's very impressive! It's almost exactly what I want. It can even synch with Palms.
Unfortunately, I have to own my data, I'm not giving it to Yahoo.
I wonder what programming language they use... also, I wonder how they figure out things like, if you have a task that repeats every third wednesday starting October 7th, 2002 and continuing until May 5, 2007, that that task should appear on (say) July 2nd, 2004. I doubt they actually have a record in the database for each instance, and it's probably a pain programmatically to figure out whether the current day is one of the days the task is supposed to show up on. You can also change the entry for one of the recurrences individually without changing them all. How's that work?
They also have things like a daily view that will show overlapping events, using colspans and rowspans and everything. It looks like a desktop app. If you were laying out the screen in a desktop app you'd say something like "divide the width of the window by the number of tasks" and then you can just write everything to the screen with the right width and height. In a web app you have to use tables, so it's more of a pain, but they do it very well.
Via LGF, the National Review Online: The Truth About the Mideast "Fourteen fundamental facts about Israel and Palestine."
It's time to look back on 14 fundamental geographical, historical, and diplomatic facts from the last century relating to the Middle East. These basic facts and figures were stressed in recent statements to the U.N. Commission on Human Rights and its subcommission, to the surprise of representatives of both states and non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
Ok, the Zire has been released. We'll see if I can get it for cheaper than $100 (and if it'll meet my needs). It's not available on Amazon or Buy.com yet.
I've read that it won't be available through normal "retail" outlets... so I wonder if that includes places like Amazon and Best Buy.
I'm kind of surprised actually: from the feature comparisons I've read, the m105 seems to beat the Zire pretty handily (grayscale to monochrome, 8 megs to 2, backlight to no backlight, etc.) and they go for about the same price now. If I can get it for like $70, then maybe. As for now, I'm improving my own web-based task manager to the point where I actually like it. It's gonna be awesome, you'll see.
Frankly, if I make a light-weight version of my task manager, I could use it from any web-enabled phone - that might even be good enough for me (now all I need is a new phone).
Monday, October 7, 2002
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