The Difference Between One Million And One Billion
It's feels like a billion is just a bit bigger than a million. Obviously it's bigger but it fits on the same scale as a million, surely. It doesn't. A billion is so so so much bigger than a million. I've trawled the internet finding graphics and videos that show the VAST difference between one million and one billion. Oh, and just to finish with a different misconception about space starting with the classic opening line from the great Douglas Adams and The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy : “Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”
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Searched on Google for iCal Rugby World Cup fixture list and the first result was your website - Now added them all to my google calender, Thank you so much!
ReplyDeleteThanks Mike, the calendar's much appreciated! Simon, Dublin
ReplyDeletePleasure guys.
ReplyDeleteNZRU/IRB have told me on Twitter they'll be doing something "in the new year" so watch their space as well.
Mike thanks for the Calendar, You legend! James, London
ReplyDeletePleasure James.
ReplyDeleteAs I've said the NZRU/IRB did promise a "usable" calendar but at the moment it's still in .doc format (DOH!)
I'll be maintaining the Google calendar either way and will update with match scores, links etc
Thanks for this - made my day!
ReplyDeleteAdam
fantastic mike, thank you.
ReplyDeleteGOOD ONE MIKE - NO HASSLE - JUST WORKS - LEINSTER FAN
ReplyDeleteNo worries Adam, 'anon' and Leinster Fan - pass it on to all you know
ReplyDeleteThanks mate. Saves me typing all that stuff.
ReplyDeletePleasure Brian - pass it around ;-)
ReplyDeleteFound your calender through google search and it's great! Thanks very much.
ReplyDeleteRichard in Scotland
Fantastic. Just what I was looking for. Cheers mate! Saved me a lot of time
ReplyDeleteGood idea !! Thank You Mike !
ReplyDeleteGo to France! go the blues!
Thanks Richard, gavdav13 and Afterweek - pass it on to ya mates.
ReplyDeleteHmm, go the Blues you say ;-)
Many thanks Mike!
ReplyDeleteThanks Andy
ReplyDeleteGreat job! Thank you.
ReplyDeleteGo Romanian Oaks!!
@Caata
ReplyDeletePleasure! Be great to watch Romania in a very tough pool :-)
Excellent work. Nice clean presentation. I appreciate the effort and have just subscribed to your iCal feed. Thanks, Brendan
ReplyDeletePleasure Brendan - see you here or online during the games :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks Mike!
ReplyDeleteExactly what I want!
Allez la France! and the others!
Great to hear Yann.
ReplyDeleteHmm, the French you say, the All Blacks' nemesis side ;-)
Thank you - very much appreciated told my colleagues!
ReplyDeletePaul - Petersfield UK
Thanks Mike! Just what I was looking for....
ReplyDeleteThanks Mike
ReplyDeletejust imported into google calendar...seems the time is off by 1 hour...
ReplyDeletee.g. England v Scotland you have
DTSTART:20111001T073000Z (shows up as 5:30pm Sydney time)
should be
DTSTART:20111001T083000Z (should be 6:30pm Sydney time)
..maybe you created it before daylight savings ended and this wasn't catered for?
A local KO time in the description would be a great help too.
actually...not so sure now....NZ kicks into daylight savings on 25th Sep....Sydney not until 2nd Oct, so maybe it should show as 5:30pm...so you may have it right after all....though some earlier games prior to 25th (DLS) still seem an hour out...
ReplyDeleteThanks for putting in the effort, Mike. Much appreciated :-)
ReplyDeleteAwesome work mate. I neeed this in Sweden as there is 0 rugby coverage.
ReplyDeleteJust check the times though because my thick head keeps coming up with the earlier games being an hour different...
Thanks everyone, spread the word :-)
ReplyDeleteTimezone: All dates are in NZ - note that the Kiwi summer time kicks in 25th September and the NZ clocks will be going forward an hour (2am will become 3am).
The calendar should automatically reflect your local timezone, especially if you're using Google Calendar. Your summer time may be ending during the RWC and thus may move some of the events by an hour.
Having said all that please let me know if there is a match that you know is wrong and I'll check it out for us all.
Mike - you are a legend! Thanks so much for putting in a the effort. Sam.
ReplyDeleteRight you are. Fantastic!!!
ReplyDeletePleasure Anonymous and Mike (great name :-)
ReplyDeletePass it on and let the world know we can have usable match schedules despite the IRB
You are the MAN!I have been searching for one with German times for a while
ReplyDeleteThanks Mike! Much appreciated.
ReplyDeleteThanks Mike this is perfect just about to do the same myself so saved me a job. Thank-you
ReplyDeleteAnonymous, Evergreen, Marc - pleasure.
ReplyDeleteI plan to add in links to the match info, maybe TV listings around the world ...
Greeting, Great work, Added to my Google account, however I couldnt add all the appointments in O2K3.. I found I had to save the file, then in OL went through and use the "Import and Export Wisard" and "Import an iCalendar or vCalendar file (.vcs)".
ReplyDeleteI then modified the ics file and added a "CATEGORIES" attribute.
motardgeeek - sorry that Outlook 2003 didn't have the brains to handle it natively for you and thanks for sharing your workaround
ReplyDeleteWhat a great calendar - thanks for taking the effort to do this.
ReplyDeleteMark
Good work. Saves a lot of hunting around!
ReplyDeletePleasure Anonymous and Mark - will be updating the match details with links over the weekend. Looking to get links to TV schedules around the world
ReplyDeleteGood man - appreciate the time you put into putting this together!
ReplyDeleteBig thank you Mike
ReplyDeleteThis is great and with the scores... many thanks
ReplyDeleteYou're a lengend Mike!
ReplyDeleteI was about to type them all into my iCal but had a brainwave to do a search. "Bingo!"
Dan, knowtoneed, rhinoab and Peter - pleasure! Only a few weeks to go and the scores will start flowing in :-)
ReplyDeleteMany Thanks Mike, very useful, appreciate the share as will a number of my chums now.
ReplyDeleteCheers, Ieuan.
A Welshman slowly trying to annexing England from London
Mate, thank you very much for taking the time to sort this calendar. It was a task I was dreading... Top man!
ReplyDeleteThanks a million for taking the time to do this Mike. Much appreciated!
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot for the calendar and the updated scores !!!
ReplyDeleteThank you very very much.
ReplyDeleteSaludos desde España.
Fantastic work, thanks for the calendar!
ReplyDeleteJust a small note: Bronze Final loaded on Sat 22/10 in my iCal. But the schedule on the RWC 2011 Facebook page states Fri 21/10 as the date for the match. A glitch, perhaps?
Thanks Anonymous (x 2), Joe, Slamp, Fko and especially NDR - yes, I had the Bronze Final game wrong, corrected now - thanks.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing this.
ReplyDeleteJust added it.
Thanks Mike, really helpful. Must better than IRB word.doc! :)
ReplyDeleteThanks YoCGuigui and Stuart.
ReplyDeleteStuart - to be fair to the RWC organisation company (@RugbyWorldCup) they are fully aware that their approach has been somewhat limited but in the grand scheme of things it's less of a priority for them.
https://twitter.com/#!/MiramarMike/status/105781187364134912
But hey, the community has stepped in and helped them out - if only they would share it out to all their followers ;-)
what a great app thanks but i'm having a problem getting it to sync with my i phone 4 calendar. Am i doing something wrong or is it just a case of me being a typical prop!!!!
ReplyDeleteGreat thanks - saved me ages having to type them all in.
ReplyDeleteHey Mike, Reckon you could re-schedule last weekend's AB v Aus match so we can have another crack at it?
ReplyDeleteexcellent. thanks for thinking about that, Mr iCal. the official RWC site doesnt have an ical download. but they did release official apps last week. i was googling around trying to find a way to get the matches onto iCal and there was a link to your site. thanks again...
ReplyDeleteThanks Mike! Looking forward to some Great Rugby! Good luck to the AB's from a Saffer...
ReplyDeletecheers,
Leslie
Thanks, that's awesome!
ReplyDeleteAbsolute legend! Thanks mate. Will pass this on to my rugby club. Go Bokke!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the calender, can you do anything about the times of the games too?!
ReplyDeleteCheers Mike, fantastic job. By way of reciprocation also found this rather handy scorecard in Excel for those who want to keep tabs on the results...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.bhs.org.za/rwc-2011-score-card
I share my calendars with my family and friends- now they'll know when it's game time! lol. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteFantastic - saved me the effort of doing one myself :)
ReplyDeleteJust a question - you say you'll be updating with links and scores etc.
How will you do that? Just update the old entries? I am keen to use your calendar but not if it's going to become cluttered :(
Thanks everyone for the nice comments, I trust it's all working for you.
ReplyDeleteScores: I'll be putting the scores in as soon as the final whistle goes - if you don't want to know the score then please DON'T BLAME ME IF YOU GO LOOKING :)
Match report links: I will be putting in a maximum of 3 per match:
- Official World Cup site
- Official home side match report
- Official away side match report
And that's it ... probably ... if I go to a game I'll definitely be blogging it and popping a link in ;)
@Vince, thanks for sharing. Shame it's Excel, a public Google Spreadsheet would've been so much cooler ;-)
ReplyDeleteStill, thanks for sharing, really appreciate it.
thanks - will be very useful
ReplyDeleteHave made an open (anyone can edit) Google Doc version of the Excel spreadsheet Vince found - http://blog.mikeriversdale.co.nz/2011/09/rugby-world-cup-spreadsheet.html
ReplyDeleteThis is some rather awesome work - thanks muchly for sharing!
ReplyDeleteWhen you say you'll be posting the results, is that in the Description or in the Title?
My preference is for Description, so that I don't have to see the results if I don't want to.
Thanks so much, works perfect in my iCal (and then synced to my iPhone)
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot man !
ReplyDeleteI concur with @Fishbowler - that was why I raised the question originally. It would be great if the title wasn't updated so at a glance we won't know results and if extra links are included, they go into the description rather. That would be ideal but I know it's not up to me ;)
ReplyDeleteHey Mike Dood - You have the Wellington games down as being played at Westpac Staduim... But they are at Wellington Regional Staduim !!! lol
ReplyDeleteSame place, renamed due to sponsorship priorities.
ReplyDeleteNice one!!!
ReplyDeleteBig thanks from Germany !
ReplyDeleteBig thanks from Canada, Mike - This is fantastic!! Now, if you could do anything about the 16 hour time difference, that would be much appreciated =0) No? Oh well, it's going to make for some early (!!) mornings. Cheers!
ReplyDeleteUpdated Wellington venue with the official IRB/Rugby World Cup name for the stadium - bloody sponsorship naming rights, grr :-)
ReplyDeleteA rucking good thank you from the Netherlands
ReplyDeleteJust found your calendar on Google and added it to my Google Calendar. Thank you very much!
ReplyDeletethanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteJust wanted to say thanks for putting the iCal file together, saved me a lot of hassle! Time zones even stayed perfect and everything.
ReplyDeleteRoss, Scotsman in New Mexico
Plus one Thank You from me too. Very helpful!
ReplyDeleteGood on yah...Frank AUS
ReplyDeleteWell done and thanks. It must be the Blacks to win this time assuming Wales doesn't thrash them (in my dreams);-).
ReplyDeleteJeremy
www.webswonder.co.uk
Thanks everyone for popping in a comment, really appreciate it.
ReplyDeleteHope everyone enjoyed the opening weekend, what a stormer it was. And the game last night in Wellington was brilliant, even had my wife hurtling out of her seat to scream at the players on the pitch :-) Shame Wales lost but just amazing to be there.
Thanks Mike, great calendar, thanks for sharing. Agree last week's game in Wellie was amazing, can't wait for this Saturday!!! Cheers, Jude, Wellie
ReplyDeleteHi Mike great effort with the calendar.
ReplyDeleteI've been subscribed for two or three or four years now thank you very much.
I just wanted to check with you if you do update on a daily basis because at the moment you don't have the Irish or Scottish fixtures for this weekend (11-12th November '17) in the calendar - could you check this out please? thanks man cheers
Nick Quartey-Papafio (ex-Doncaster, Blackheath & Watford RUFC's)
Happy to add you to the calendar and you can add / amend as you see fit - drop me an email and on you'll go: miramar.mike@gmail.com
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