Category Archives: Travel

Travel

How to make iCal display time zones on events

Apple’s iCal has the ability to use timezone-aware scheduling. This comes in handy because I sync it with my Treo, which changes time zones automatically. Unfortunately, sometimes it’s easy to forget which time zone you’re looking at, and become confused.

Yesterday I accidentally discovered that if you change your date/time format preferences to include time zone (even for the “short” format) in System Preferences, the time zone will be included in iCal events as well:

Screenshot from iCal

Going to New Orleans Tomorrow

Tomorrow will be a great day — I’ll wake up in Baltimore, but I’ll be in New Orleans before I go to sleep. I won’t be checking or replying to email as much while I’m gone, so don’t expect a quick reply until Monday.

Hi Katie!

In a handbasket.

Apparently while I’ve been away, not just out of the country but also neglecting my blog reading, the US has somehow managed to become a dictatorship and legalize torture. As legal as it can be in light of certain international conventions and laws.

Surely I should say more about this, but honestly, I’ve been at work from 07.30 – 20.30 for the last two days. Jet lag has not helped in making that time productive. I’m hoping that if I keep the work up and the breaks down I may at some point catch up to where I should be, and be able to breathe a little.

Back in “The States”

I have returned from Oxford, UK. My blogging continues to suffer due to heavy workload and the fact that I was gone for 6 days. The jet lag isn’t helping either.

I continue to work 10-12 hour days, and hope that at some point I’ll break even and get some time to start working on other stuff.