Urk?

[da]

I just got spam. In iCal. I haven't had time to figure out how the hell it got there, but it's a bit of a surprise. Its recipient is... my non-gmail address, but it has a google calendar link at the bottom. Hm. The only action on my part was to confirm in ical that my address belonged to me. And then they appeared in the "notifications" pane.

[edit to add: Ah, I see. it's a convenience feature of mac mail and ical. If my email contains an .ical event notification, it will add it without asking me. iCal preferences... "Advanced" preferences... *untick*]

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Also: what's up with friends moving away shortly? Was it something I said?

My friend Michael is imminently moving to Alberta; he told me on the weekend (calling from Alberta).

ferdzy and her partner Karl are quite possibly moving to Owen Sound this summer. At least 50% possibility, according to K. Higher chance if they can sell their business.

I think that's quite enough of that. No more moving further away. You're only allowed to move closer. (With the proviso that my parents are welcome to move to Ithaca, whether or not it's any closer to here... (and it even is closer, by 50 miles.)) Got it? Good.

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[morgan-starfire.livejournal.com]

"I just got spam. In iCal. [snip] Ah, I see. it's a convenience feature..."

Spam as a convenience feature. Hmmm. Yeah.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

It seemed a particularly Microsoftian touch: the assumption that you trusted your inbox to not have malicious ical events sent to it.

A much more mac-ish solution would be: if you click on the ical attachment in Mail, it will open iCal and ask: "you opened this from Mail. Do you want to make this happen automatically in the future?"

Too bad I don't work for Apple. ;)

[morgan-starfire.livejournal.com]

As much happier as I am on my Mac, I'm finding myself even more irritated than ever at the MS products I use... particularly on the Mac. We have a mini, which theoretically does both. Usually, it's fine. It's just that the... contrast... between Mac user experience and MS user experience gets so much sharper when running MS products on a Mac!

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

*shudder* I sure know that dance from my linux/windows days.

Curious: what MS products do you need? if it's office, have you tried Pages? My understanding it does pretty well. (I haven't yet; NeoOffice is a bit clunky but it seems to meet my needs well enough. And it's better than Word' 07!).