John Otter

January 23, 2007September 5, 2015 John OtterLeave a comment

Laundromonday

googlefication

January 18, 2007 John OtterLeave a comment

So I recently started using Google Calendars. For quite awhile I was hoping to start using an online calendar service so all appointments and things could be accessed from any computer. It seemed to make sense. But I didn’t sign up for anything existing until I stumbled across Google Calendars. The first thing I noticed is that you can easily import calendars from iCal. Then I noticed that iCal can actually export the birthdays that are in your Address Book, if you’ve entered birthdays. So I made a separate Birthdays calendar in my Google Calendar. You can search for public calendars like US Holidays and import those too. So I beginning to get used to it and then it dawned on me – I want the ability to access my calendars from my cell phone & maybe even add events via text message. I thought about that for a couple days and then searched the Google Calendars options and there they were. Its even pretty smart about it – seems to interpret your text into date, time, location, message, etc. & you can set the calendar events to notify you via your cell phone. Pretty cool & luckily I just got a better text-messaging package.

briefly . . .

January 16, 2007September 5, 2015 John OtterLeave a comment

This morning on my walk to get some coffee I passed a few friends playing Frisbee and decided to join in. The weather was a bit warmer than the recent slight chill and the sun was out in full force. After an half hour or so I continued on to the café where I sank into a chair with a coffee and novel (“Kim” by Rudyard Kipling). I only had a couple chapters left and I was eager to see how it turned out, and so sat and read until the book was complete. I thoroughly enjoyed the book from start to finish and after completing it I had to sit for several minutes and soak the thing in. My New Year’s resolution (to read more novels) has been fulfilled even if I don’t read any other novel this year. I can’t remember the last novel I read cover to cover and I think that particular book was a good start.
So, I had some thoughts about “tagging” posts, photos, etc. and was planning on writing a good ramble, but that will wait for another time.

oof

January 10, 2007September 5, 2015 John OtterLeave a comment

So I’ve misplaced my recent sketchbook. Last night after searching my house fairly well & figured it would be at work. Now I see it isn’t here & figure it must be at my house. I’m fairly optimistic that it is somewhere within my possession still I just don’t know where.

[update: I went home at lunch & found my sketchbook beneath a pile of paperwork. Phew! Guess its time to clean that stuff up.]

So FeedBurner just keeps getting better . . . they recently improved their headline animators.

I hope no infinite looping thing happens by putting your blog inside your blog . . .

sunday evening

January 8, 2007 John OtterLeave a comment

after a relaxing day sipping coffee I ended up going to dinner with couple friends and then some window shopping – later that evening we gathered around a fire, drank vanilla whiskey, beer & mulled wine while acoustic guitars played – it was quite nice.