It takes your Google Calendar, converts it to an Excel spread sheet, and calculates how much time you’ve worked over the time period. Very cool!

But it had a few drawbacks… Like it didn’t show a description or the location where the events took place. Big drawbacks when I’m trying to do a time sheet with all my mileage on it.

So I made a few improvements:

Here it is(3mb)

I don’t ever have to fill out a time sheet ever again, just type in an event into my Blackberry, and its logged and easily billed for.

Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen
- Edward V Berard

Enjoy!

I wanted to mention a few things finally coming around today/yesterday.
1. The Boat opened! and it was great! even though there was a line.
2. My speakers came back from the shop! wooo!
3. Obama will be president TODAY!
4. GW will no longer be the Decider!
5. I’m hoping I get my car back today too, I really miss Mel.

I have plenty to be thankful for this Thanksgiving!

oh yeah, and its raining!  I’m so happy today!

Update: I went there yesterday (December 17th) and they were still closed. Said they would open the day after Christmas if the Fire Marshal approves.

Steve Wiebe from King of Kong was at E-For-All!

My blood pressure and cholesterol levels are dangerously low. Looking forward to having cheesebread, chicken sandwiches, and cheeseburgers. mmmmm

this image was taken in Janurary 2007:

www.clearmansrestaurants.com

more images at Flickr

What happened, less than a month ago, is they started to BLOCK all incoming ports. Which means I can no longer have someone remote into my computer when I’m out on a job site, or connect directly in any way through VNC or any web server protocol. It’s very annoying and did not use to be like that.

Why I’m really pissed is that I have a trade show this next week where we are showing off our remote lighting controls for recreational ball fields, and I need people to be able to log directly into my laptop at the show to control the lights from their blackberries/iphones/web enabled phones. It will be great fun but Verizon is trying to kill it.

I talked with Verizon tech support and the first lady told me they don’t block ANY ports and it was on my end. I told her I don’t think so. It works just fine with any other connection. I finally got to upper tech support and he read me my TOS, and said those ports should have been blocked forever and I was lucky to get them through until now.

Long story short, I now have to VPN into my home network, then I can do everything I want. It will work for the show, so HA.

Stupid Verizon. You are on notice.

I had a great time at the reddit meetup here in Los Angeles. They graciously bought everyone beer! And they were some of the coolest/geekiest guys I’ve met in a while. Great meeting you all! You are welcome back here anytime. I’ll buy beer next time you are down!

for those who you who don’t know, www.reddit.com is a geek news website as well as regular news. Great people that run things there.

www.drankkit.com – they decided to tour the country and buy beer for their fans (me)

[rant]
So a CableCard is supposed to make life easier, no cable box, just slide these devices that look like laptop PCMCIA cards into the front of the TiVo and it magically gets digital reception. I asked them, since I am technically savy, to just mail me the card/cards and I think I can do the rest from there. They insisted on sending a technician to install them. I said fine.

Currently, we are starting hour 2 of this technician sitting on my floor, not knowing what to do. He put the cable cards in, called in to HQ to activate them, and is currently still sitting around waiting for my TiVo to update. Personally, I think that since the government mandated that ALL cable companies needed to provide a CableCard for users to avoid a monopoly on the set top box, they purposely make them not work correctly with my TiVo so that I’ll buy their DVR. NO THANK YOU!

I love my TiVo! All cable provided DVR’s I’ve seen are not nearly as user-friendly as my TiVo, and I can schedule shows online, transfer videos to and from my computers, listen to music on the home stereo system and record 2 channels at once. Oh, and I have my lifetime subscription transferred over.

I’m about to take the remote from this “technician”… Just did… wow, I think I got it working. I could be an installer for Time Warner. Seriously, this guy had no idea how to install the CableCard onto my TiVo. He would have sat there on my floor all day.
[/rant]

I have things to do here, and can’t sit around all day like him and wait for my cable to come up, like blog… Thankfully, I can do that while he’s here. 12:35pm now…

Edit: 1:00pm update… it did not work. The tech took the cable cards back. I told him I thought it was not in Time Warners’ interest to have them work since they want me to buy their DVR. He agreed totally, took the CableCards back and told me to make a new appointment, which I’m not sure if I will do. Now it looks like the regular cable does not work anymore. Starting to piss me off.

it is HOT!