Using CygWin wget and Dropbox to Sync Yahoo! Calendar to Google

UPDATE: While this actually does work, unfortunately Google has a long-standing bug which keeps them from properly updating your calendar from a subscribed calendar.

Although I have tried, in vain, for years to tear my wife away from Yahoo!, I have been entirely unsuccessful.  She just can’t part with that oh-so-familiar (and cluttered) UI.  Nor can she bring herself to part ways with sub par features and overly aggressive in-your-face Flash ads.  So, in quiet desperation, I have been forced to synchronize her Yahoo! Calendar with my Google Calendar in order to keep abreast of our household schedule.

A short note to the Religious Right

If you truly, in your heart, believe that Jesus Christ would, in today’s political climate, choose to be a Republican…then, you, sir, are completely deranged.

Now, I’m not saying he would be thrilled with any political party, given the average politician’s propensity for corruption.  However, let’s assume that he must choose between Democrats and Republicans.

One, although mildly retarded, has the best of intentions to help those less fortunate.  While the other, un-apologetically, is intent to help the richest 1% of the people stay rich at the detriment to the well-being of the remaining 99% of the people.  ALL political policies are derived from these basic tenants.

Now, I’m no religious scholar; however, I find it almost entirely unbelievable that Christ would choose the greedy, hate-filled, Republicans over the slightly slow, and sometimes silly, but well-intentioned, Democrats.  So, if you define yourself as a Christian, meaning that you follow the teachings of Christ, you should start thinking a little harder about the choices that you make at the ballot box.

Jesus would…

• embrace homosexuals, not throw stones at them.
• lift up the poor, not exploit them for profit.
• give healing treatment to the sick, not ignore them
• provide shelter to the homeless, not blame them
• welcome the sinners with open arms, not judge and ridicule them

Some of the things that Jesus would have us do, in his name, are not cheap.  But, you know what.  Nobody said doing the right thing would be easy.  In fact, if you read that book that you like to, so fervently, beat others over the head with, it says just the opposite.

“words from the past”, poems that I wrote long ago and have decided to release into the world all of these years later.

#1 to feel your face

hand touching your face
surprised by the softness

Trying not to tremble,
brushing the hair away.

Smooth and delicate
beneath my hand.

warm and inviting
against my skin.

to press my lips…a gentle kiss.
to catch my breadth…a lingering touch.

softness draws me nearer…
mothers milk…finest silk.

I must pull away.

The Face of Politics

I have struggled as of late to find an adequate description of the current state of politics in the US.

Today, I had an epiphany…and here is the result.

A Democrat is standing at my front door.  He has a line of people behind him, all of whom need or want something.  He is explaining to me why it is in my best interest to give him my money to help all of those people in line behind him, and by doing so, help myself.

Standing beside me on my front porch is a Republican.  He points out all of the reasons that I shouldn’t trust the Democrat to spend my money wisely…”It would simply be throwing good money after bad.” he argues.

While the Republican waives his arms in the air and rails against the Democrat’s policies, his buddies are coming out the back of my house carrying all of my fucking stuff.

Terms and Conditions…My big hairy arse.

What ass-hat decided that simply making a statement to someone somehow holds them legally obliged to adhere to that statement?

Some people just don’t get it.  Existing companies embraced the internet, especially the network created through the HTTP protocol known commonly as the world wide web, because of the ease and low cost by which they can communicate with current and potential customers.  Many others started entirely new businesses based upon the same nearly free network infrastructure.  Companies, governments, and individuals alike discovered that they now had the ability to publish content to a world-wide audience, and perhaps even convince some of them to pay for that content.