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thankfully i wont be using mcalendar until i can use syncml to sync it with my desktop.

until then i just keep it around to toy with whenever a new version shows up...

there are wsys to syng google cal with syncml, google on it.

i dont want to use google cal, the only google service i make use of is search, as i do not have to create a account with them to do so...

Resistance is futile. You will be assimulated...


I just made a dang Doctors appointment and the receptionist told me if I gave her a Google email addy, she would push the date and time to my Google Calender.

ye gods...

i wonder how long the "do no evil" will hold...

IMHO you had two levels choice with the appointment. One was signing up for a Goggle account and the other was to share the address in trade for a convienience. I don't see the evil there. I choose applications and formats based on ubiquity of access, freedom of choice and value. Google gives me all of those -- my assimilation was a natural act. Unlike Microsoft and cell carriers I'm not maniplated against my will. Despite those two examples big doesn't dictate an evil nature. Greed and an unwillingness of business to adapt to the needs of there customers breed business oriented evil.

im more worried about all the info sitting in a collection of databases ownned by a single corp tho. they can come to know a whole lot about a whole lot of people, if they want to...

Can't argue with that.

btw, would have been nice to know if google ever posted some kind of spec on that mail in appointment format, or if its a preexisting standard, so that it could be implemented in sunbird/lightning or similar.

Here's the API -- http://code.google.com/apis/calendar/