After 9 years of e-mailing at my current school, I need to backup and take my messages with me. So, fire up the Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Outlook tool and I'm off and running for 130 contacts, 2,991 calendar events, and 77,317 e-mails. Yikes!
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The stellar team at Celebrate Brooklyn doesn't have an iCal feed of their events, only an RSS feed. So, I decided to help them out and create an iCal version for them. I created it in Google Calendar and then published the calendar, and you are the beneficiary. Here are the calendar links.
To just see the schedule, click here. (if you use Google Calendar, use this link, then click the button on the bottom right hand corner to add it to your own calendar).
To subscribe to the calendar in iCal (Mac) or any other iCal compliant calendar, use this url:
http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/grovernetwork.com_lj35dgm436qjuluq6c8qsj9...
or:
webcal://www.google.com/calendar/ical/grovernetwork.com_lj35dgm436qjuluq6c8qsj9qec%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics
Enjoy, and do come out to Celebrate Brooklyn!
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Esquire has a nice series of posts on being better at work, although the entire thing is labeled "How to be a Man at Work." I'd leave out the man, and substitute "good person," but beggars can't be choosers.
Some of the highlights include: Your First Day, A Few Rules for Meetings, The Rules About Technology.
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Taking a break from writing report cards to listen to this beautiful rendition of a classing bhangra song, "Jugni"
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Now that's what you call a strike.
The government must have read Chip and Dan Heath's stellar book Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard as they have finally moved away from the terribly unhelpful food pyramid. However, they came up with a new plate image, which includes a round blob of dairy. The plate is decent (although vegetables and grains often have protein, so that's confusing). Why include the silly dairy? It's certainly not needed.
Counterpunch has a good story critiquing the new plate and calling out lobbyist groups' work on influencing the outcome.
update: The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine has a much better plate they call The Power Plate.
