Dear iCal. You are lame.

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From: sabrina downard
Subject: Dear iCal. You are lame.
Date: 21:06 on 06 Oct 2005
Dear iCal:

Sometimes I have to schedule several items to occur at the same time.
Such as when I am going to, say, attend a conference and I want to make
a printout to put in my day planner so I can look at them all and then
pick and choose which one to attend. Sometimes, these events may be
arranged in groupings -- such as, during any one given day, there may
be, say, three rooms in use simultaneously.

It would be awfully nice of you to let me arrange my events in columns
so I could glance down a column and see what all's going on in a given
room. No, instead you seem to use some sort of crack-addled mechanism
for choosing the order in which to list events, left to right. Sometimes
I can trick you, by changing the time of an event and then changing it
back, and thereby pile things on at the right as they get pushed left.
But then I pick up the printout, and you've made a special rearrangement
just for the paper version.

This, for the record, is lame. You're going to force me to use a plain
text document just to get columns. Lame. Lame. Lame!

love,
--sabrina.
   (and no, the categories don't help because you still scatter them
    hither and yon, i don't have a color printer, and i sort of resent
    having to have a tie-dyed calendar just because you're lame.)

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