The holy grail it seems of being connected is being able to see your calendar in any permutation, in any place, and using any client. I guess that this is important when you are a traveling dude or dudette. You have to know that you are late for an appointment and the announcement has to come on three different types of devices. First your cellphone or smartphone tells you. Then your laptop buzzes and wakes you up on the plane or train or whatever. Then finally you may get a SMS message or an alert from a friendly calendaring server. It all comes with the turf of needed to have messaging at any time, using any tool, and in any place.
My solution is simpler and so are the places that need to remind me. I share a google calendar with my wife so its nice if she sees my google calendar with its important update. But how do I tell her that there is a change without calling? Definitely a problem; but enter this cute little service called goosync. When I change an appointment time on my phone or at work or wherever, googsync syncs automatically to google calendar and whammo, blammo. My wife knows I am gonna be later for the hamburger helper. The other tools in my collaboration aberration are Sunbird with the Google Calendar Provider add-in. This gives me pretty nice and flexible access to my caldndar. The combination of a web calendar, goosync, and sunbird; make it all good. I also tried Scheduleworld and while I like the concept, I had a devil of a time making it actually work. Bu t it appears that others can accomplish.
My final take is that Evolution is too much like Outlook and I’ve used Outlook for over a year at Visa. But where I’m going also has an exchange server. I’m moving farther away from that open source company that I once thought was out there for me. Its dawned on me that I don’t belong in one of those because they have “issues”. I have issues too though and perhaps the combination of theirs and mine are just too great of a chasm. I cannot cross that divide and find something of worth. Or, its something like Levanta and the worth eroded into competing kingdoms of self-aggrandizement and empire building.
But the main thing is that I don’t need that crap. I don’t need what I went for before which was a company that appeared to have it together on the outside but could not understand why my resume could possibly change every 2 years. Dood! Its consulting man. But at a bigger level it all changes. Consider your own miserable failure of a life Mr. VP of this or that or Mr. CEO or Founder that thinks your s**t don’t stink. It does. Yours may be solid gold but its still shit. Solid gold poop is still poop. But you can probably find a VC buzzard that will sell it, promote it, or steal it.
So somehow, I got off the beam and way from calendaring. But its all communication folks. Writing, reading, listening, talking. I’ll soon be gone from what was and communication and its media will change.
In the end, I’m glad. I’ll put up with things, make the best even better and go off and build the things of worth for where I’m going. I’ll tell everyone next Monday where “that” is.
See ya then 
