I work so hard sifting through all your email content to try and come up with some interesting stories that you might want to read after you’re done replying to all that email that you get. But do you even bother to glance up? Let alone click one of the many links I have to offer? Not once! Well, if it’s all the same to you, I’ll just let you put your own links up here. Not that you ever will. You ungrateful jerk.
At least, that’s what I assume the little news strip on the top of my GMail is saying since it’s defaulted to the “Customize” message for the past day.
Ever vigilant to find compelling experiences, I found a good one today on Engadget. You can’t do this with an iPod. But then, if you never find another Zune owner, I suppose you can’t do that with a Zune either.
If you’re like me, you’ve heard news about Daylight-Saving Time being 3 weeks earlier this year. And if you’re like me, you probably dismissed it immediately. My thinking: “Someone will tell me when to change my clocks… so why do I have to worry?”
Of course there’s all the buzz about this being the next Y2K… but if that’s the case, doesn’t that just mean nothing will happen even though we expect it to?
Well chaos struck today when my manager tried to schedule my performance review on March 19 - after this year’s DST turnover and before the standard date for DST. During our meeting today, she said, “Yeah… I had to schedule it over lunch, I hope that’s OK. We’ll meet from 11 - 1.” I agreed, returned to my desk, and found the time blocked off from 12 - 2.
This prompted a confusing discussion. “Did you mean 12 - 2?” “I meant 11 - 1, but I could mean 12 - 2.” “Are you sure? Because it’s showing up as 12 - 2.” “Well, let’s just do 12 - 2.” She then sent me a new meeting request:
Notice the discrepancy? I circled the meeting time according to my computer to call out what’s happening. Interesting effect, no? We haven’t tracked down the actual cause of the issue, but there is one interesting note - I’m running a Vista machine, and folks who sent me meeting requests from XP machines all seem to be off by an hour. Still, my manager’s appointments are also off, and not in the same direction (some go an hour before, others an hour later).
Regardless, there might actually be something to the warnings this year. Worldwide chaos? Maybe not. But definitely meeting confusion.
While I’m all about the Web 2.0 movement, “beggar” was one word I did not expect to see Web 2.0-ified. It’s small in scope but apparently quite effective… check it out.
I, however, am too lazy to create a Web 2.0 interface. Will you permit me to skip that and just send me your money?