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Broken iCal - Application Needed to fix it
After my calendar didn't sync today using BusySync, I started poking around. The BusySync log gave a Google error saying that I had exceeded my quota. I'm not sure what it was pushing or pulling, but I took the opportunity to clean up my calendars. I had events back to 2002 in it that I didn't need. In iCal, I selected the option to delete events older than 60 days. I quit iCal and restarted it a few times. That didn't help. Next a tip said to search for 'a' or 'e' and then delete items in the results. Well, that was tedious as iCal kept crashing and freezing when I did that, but I managed to delete a lot of events. Then I went back through my calendars and looked to see that old events were still there (most had an 'a' or 'e' in it). I deleted those. Before all this I exported my calendar and then re-imported it. That didn't help. My calendar was so screwed up after years of using iSync, trying to sync to Google and lots of testing, that some events were duplicated 50+ times.
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Cash vs. Credit
People have speculated that we'd become a cashless society years ago, but this clearly hasn't happened. While I try to use a credit card for most purchases, sometimes I use cash. For me, they are effectively interchangeable as I pay off my credit card every month and use a credit card with no annual fee. There are a few advantages to credit for me: 1) cash back, 2) easier to keep track of expenses, 3) consumer protection in case there is a problem with the charge. I use cash for purchasing gas to get the cash discount and for the very few places that don't take credit.
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The Power of Compression
Today I was investigating some slowdowns on one of our customer facing sites and after a few minutes working with our developer and Safari, I determined that we weren't compressing files sent from the server. (Safari warned me in the Show Network Timeline option in the Develop menu.)
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Macworld Recap
Everyone is posting a recap and analysis of Macworld and I won't be any different! My trip to Macworld this year, like every year, was a lot of fun, but tiring at the same time. In some years, I've worked at the Mark/Space booth, but most years, I just walk around the Expo floor (I don't find conferences all that interesting to me). I spent the first day walking around the booths to get a lay of the land and talking to people I know (there are some people that I only see at Macworld). The second day, I went up and down every aisle looking for products that would be helpful for my work. Yes, I actually glanced at every booth. There were a number of products that I would never have seen just searching the web.