Entries from April 2006 ↓

“Why did Ryan just blog about the Stanford academic calendar?”

Well, I’m heading off to graduate school in the fall! In fact, I’m going to be enrolling in the M.S. of Computer Science program at Stanford University in sunny Palo Alto, California!

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I’ve published a data file for Jewish holidays from now through the year 5770 (July 2010). If you’re using an iCal-compatible calendar application, like Google Calendar or Mozilla Sunbird, you can subscribe to this and automatically add the holidays to your datebook. This particular calendar is useful for people who want a few of the important holidays, without all of the minor holidays and extra dates present on most Jewish Calendar iCal files. All holidays begin at sundown on the date before the date specified here.� I found the holiday dates on a great website called Judaism 101.

I’ve published an iCal-compatible data file for the Stanford Academic Calendar for 2006-07. I took the information from the Stanford Registrar’s Office calendar, and published it so that you can use it in Apple iCal, Google Calendar, or any other calendar app which can handle iCal files. Warning: This calendar does not include all dates and deadlines in the academic calendar. Don’t rely on it to tell you when to submit your Ph.D. dissertation! Check the Stanford Registrar’s academic calendar site for more dates.

I’ve started using Google Calendar to manage my activities, and I’m very happy with it so far. It’s exactly what I was looking for: full iCal support, very clean and simple interface, and very easy to use. I don’t have a public calendar for my own schedule, but I’ll post an update if I create one.

I just ordered some inline skates — the K2 Exo 6.0 model. My friend Erik loaned me a pair of skates a few weeks ago, and I’ve been slowly getting the hang of it. I’d like to learn to skate this spring, as it seems like a healthy and fun way to enjoy the outdoors, so I’m going to enroll in a skating course. Hopefully I’ll be able to use it as a mode of transportation by the fall.