10 Tips on Writing the Living Web: A List Apart

If you run a sports club, this post is for you. If you are on a community committee, this post is also for you If you host events, this is for you. If you put on shows, this is for you. In fact, if you do anything that has a date/time component that you'd like to share with people, this is for you . Yep, probably for all of us. Sharing calendars can be both: an effective way of letting everyone know a complete and utter technical pain in the bottomly region If you've posted up an events page onto your website you know how difficult it is to keep up to date, how the readers have to keep coming back to get the latest changes and don't even think about integrating with somebody else's "events page". Ok, so we all know the problem. What's the solution? iCalendar (normally shortened to iCal) ... yep, it's a geek word that you will come to know and love just as much as RSS. In fact, think of it as RSS for calendars. But that's enough geekery, if you want

There's oodles of malarkey on this PC ... sloooowly being deleted. ---- A Touch of Class Sybil : What are you doing? Basil : I'm kissing you, dear. Sybil : Well, don't. The Builders Basil : (to phone) Ah yes, Mr O'Reilly, well it's perfectly simple. When I asked you to build me a wall I was rather hoping that instead of just dumping the bricks in a pile you might have found time to cement them together... you know, one on top of another, in the traditional fashion. -- O'Reilly : (calmly) Just remember, Mr Fawlty, there's always someone worse off than yourself. Basil : Is there. Well, I'd like to meet him. I could do with a laugh. The Wedding Party Basil : Always reminds me of someone machine-gunning a seal. Major : The heat? Basil : ...No, no, my wife's laugh. -- Jean : Has it got a breeze? Basil : Has it got a breeze ? Jean : Is it airy? Basil : Well, it's got air in it. -- Sybil : Hello... Audrey! Any news?... Oh dear, he

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