Day: March 3, 2009

Crankypantsing

Speaking of Outlook…

Shelly

And speaking of that Outlook calendar training workshop we worker bees had to attend a couple of weeks ago…

I said at the time that it was silly for us to attend, when it was the higher-ups who needed to learn how to use their calendars. Most of the workshop focused on scheduling meetings for lots of people, so of course, we just got an email from the head of cataloging about a training session next week. An email, not a meeting request. Grrr. Which means that we all have to manually add the information to our calendars, instead of clicky-clicking on a single button so that it’s added automagically.

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Instant Review: Freecycle

Shelly

Although the brazillions of emails from people who ignored or didn’t see my “taken” posts was starting to drive me a little nuts (Reading is Fundamental, people!), the woman who received my two lots of stuff showed up when she said she would, and everything went smoothly.

So, all in all, as a way to get rid of crap you no longer want, I give it two thumbs up.

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Tech Tip o’ the Day

Shelly

As I’ve decided to embrace the evil that is MS Outlook 2007, in no small part because I need a good, functional calendar, I decided to look around for calendar add-ons. Specifically, I wanted a moon phase calendar. There are a couple of websites selling them, but I found iCalShare, which has free calendars. Obviously, these are only as good as the folks who created them, but you cannot beat the price.

I snagged a moon phase calendar, a Mercury retrograde calendar, a Roman Catholic feasts-n-saints calendar, and wonder of wonders, an academic calendar for IU Bloomington. The last is perplexingly missing from our work calendars. You’d think that official university events would be part of the standard Outlook install for our campus, but I guess not.

I think you can also file this under “spring cleaning.” I’m having some sort of OCD fit and am apparently needing to create order out of chaos.