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Integrating Gmail with Gcal
In response to this lifehacker post, I made a bookmarklet to create a Gcal event for any Gmail message. It’s based on the todoist-gcal integration script for Todoist.
Bookmarklet: gmail-to-gcal
It could be better:
- insert a link instead of just URL in the event details
- convert to a Greasemonkey userscript that places a link or button in the gmail UI
- test a bit more
but all that will have to wait till next week…
Oh amazon, you’re funny
This is just plain funny! Seems like an easy enough bug to avoid.
I can understand not wanting to restrict the suggested items too much (maybe people end up buying CRT monitors after viewing the LCD ones) but at the very least, it wouldn’t be too difficult to make sure that the suggested items are in the same broad category (say, computers and accessories) as the viewed item.
Making google look purty
[From Lifehacker] Check out this Google Reader skin from John Hicks that makes Google reader look like an OSX app in almost every browser (complete with the spotlight-blue header bars, the gray disclosure triangles and the translucent gray panels). It’s so slick and nicely done that I can’t wait for the inevitable Gmail skin. Since it’s not all pink, some of you may not like it (you know who you are) but maybe you can ask John for an all-pink version.
The stylesheet makes extensive use of the Data URI scheme which allows for the inclusion of data items (like images) without making a separate HTTP call by encoding the data inline in the html or css. Pretty cool way of including CSS and several images in a single file. IE doesn’t support Data URIs (natch) but who really cares about IE anymore?
Man Computer Symbiosis
Check out this paper by J.C.R. Licklider about how men and computers can work symbiotically. The amazing thing is that this was written in 1960 and is still very relevant today. He brings up some of the ideas that we’re trying to incorporate into Bubble but does so more elegantly.
JournlerWeb Teaser Screencast
For some time now, I’ve been searching for a good note-taking and information-management application. There are many good mac and web applications for this but the desktop apps are useless when I’m away from my laptop (blasphemous, I know, but it happens) and the web apps just aren’t as nice to use. As a compromise, I’ve been using Journler, a really nice mac desktop application when at my laptop and just sending myself email when away. But then, I end up with notes in two places and have a harder time finding stuff. So, I decided to remedy the situation by making a web interface for Journler.
I’m using appscript (python binding to applescript) to access the Journler application and data, Turbogears as the web framework and jQuery as the javascript library. I haven’t released any code yet (want to polish it up a bit first) but here’s a teaser screencast to whet your appetites: JournlerWebEarlyDemo.mov
Google Notebook and Maps for Apartment Hunting
Reason #1753 why I wouldn’t mind too much if Google did eventually become evil and control every aspect of my life: Google notebooks is now integrated with maps.
I’ve been looking for apartments lately; so I visit different sites, select the relevant bits off the page and use the Google notebooks firefox extension to add it to a notebook. Good way to keep track of apartment listing and also to note whether I’ve called/emailed or not. And now, I can view all the listings I’ve saved on a map. As long as a note has some address information, it can be viewed on a map. No need for Geocodes or XML!
Ann Arbor Campus Rental Companies
The University of Michigan off-campus housing site, Michigan Housing Dev. and craigslist are good resources to find apartments on campus but it also helps to go directly to the rental companies’ websites to find the latest information. Here’s a list of campus-area rental companies I’ve found. Please add more to the comments below.
If you’re not evolving, you’re devolving
I went to middle school in Georgia (albeit, in good public schools) and I don’t remember any controversey in Biology classes. As far as I remember, they taught evolution without avoiding the E word. Has this “evolution controversey” been manufactured in the recent past or did I just go to decent schools? It’d be interesting to see this map with an overlay of the last presidential election results (but that map just makes me sad).
Of Tapasvis and cheap SD card
My mother finished a big Jain sacrifice today. In Jainism, there are 24 tirthankars (or trascended souls) and so my mother did the following: Did K ekasanus (eat a restricted meal and only once a day) in a row where K starts at 1 and ends at 24. So, she did 1 ekasanu, took a break, did two in a row, then a break, then three in a row, break…. all the way upto 24. It took her three years to finish and so today was a pretty big event. There were about hundred people at our house and it was a nice religious ceremony.
During the ceremony, people come up to the tapasvi (ascetic, my mother in this case), wish her well and feed her some food. I took over a hundred pictures and then the memory card somehow failed and the pictures seem to be corrupted. Let that be a lesson — don’t buy a nice camera and then use a cheap memory card.
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