Fantastic idea! I used to try doing this with recipes to make cooking easier but it always felt like too much effort.
If there was a way to add your own recipes and have them presented back in this format, that would be really cool.
Awesome video. The summary say's it's an artistic project and I think it came out really well.
Almost makes me want to dive. Almost, but not quite. :)
(hat-tip: Martina - she keeps sending me cool stuff)
Fantastic write up of a three year journey around the world. I've heard of this guy before but never took the time to look him up.
Click on the pic above to go to the main story.
So funny. This was at TEDxGlobal in Oxford.
Upvote on HN (for those who care).
Found this great table of visualisations. Below is an image but you have to visit the page at visual literacy.org and hover over the 'elements' to see the examples. Neat.
How cool is that! Came out even better than I'd hoped. :-D
For those who don’t want to read the rest, here’s what you do.
You now have a link to an aggregated iCal feed of your calendar!
Below is the rest of the post for those with more patience ;)
If you have multiple calendars, sharing free/busy information becomes painful. One result is that too much time can be spent scheduling meetings.*
If I could combine all the calendar feeds into one free/busy feed then I’d only have to share that one calendar with colleagues. So far none of the applications I use are able to do this intelligently, and that’s without the additional complexity of having multiple calendars in each application.
Enter MaschiCal.
I was already using BusyCal from BusyMac so my Apple iCal calendars sync with Google quite nicely. Therefore, I only need to worry about getting my Google and Outlook calendars into one feed. (NB It’s possible to publish a feed directly from Apple iCal so you don’t need to buy any software)
To get your ics feed from your google calendar, visit the calendar’s settings page. Make sure the calendar is shared otherwise the feed will not work.
In Outlook 2007 you’ll need to right-click on the calendar you want to create a feed for and “Publish to Internet”. When you’re prompted to share the feed you just created you’ll be able to see the URL you need.
Now that you have the iCal feeds you want to aggregate, visit MashiCal and put them together. The interface is quite simple and MashiCal will produce an Agenda view and provide a link at the top of the calendar that you can share.
Be aware of the calendar settings for each feed you are entering since timezones and refresh schedules may be relevant. Once it’s done you’ll have a aggregated iCal feed that you can share with others. You can see what my free/busy feed looks like here. I’ve also collated my calendars into a general free/busy page too.
I hope this was useful. I wrote this since it took me a while to discover MashiCal and thought it might be useful for others too.
*I’m aware there are services that try and solve this problem (e.g MeetWithMe and Tungle.Me come to mind). However, I’m more interested in having an aggregated free/busy feed which people can subscribe to.
Photos from the final dinner of the CfEL Ignite programme. At Corpus Christi College.
Best wishes,
Amir
I’m the guy in the white helmet.
The above was my first attempt at a proper 3-way skydive. If you look closely it becomes obvious that I’m being dragged around. I’ve clearly got some work to do before I can keep up with these guys by myself. We did get 7 or 8 points though!
The BCPA is the national student body that promotes skydiving. Every month there’s a draw of three formations. The idea is to complete the sequence of formations (and repeat) as many times as possible within the time allowed (35sec).
June was the last draw of this academic year and the formations in the video are Sputnik, Opal and Cluster. The divepool these formations came from can be found here.
