You don't have to manually export your calendar to iCal, you can tell iCal to subscribe to your Google Calendar: [link]

As long as you keep iCal running, it should stay in sync, and get exported to your Treo.

Hmmmm....ideally, I'd also like to be able to make changes on the Treo and have them reflected on Google, but the subscription thing looks like it would work too.

Thanks, Tom!

HR question: We are going to have to hire a new IT guy here in Burbank. He will keep our local network up and running and work with our head of IT who is based at our headquarters in Minneapolis. It's not a terribly taxing job, but can involve on-a-deadline problem-solving, usually involving the amount of digitizing of video files we do here. Those of you who know more about the IT world, HELP ME PLEASE. Where should I advertise? Do you have any buzzwords I should use in the ad? Should I use a headhunter for a relatively low level IT position like this?

Speaking of Google calendar, I just clicked on my computer's little clock display to pop-up a calendar and noticed that it had sync'd with my Google calendar and was displaying appointments. I have no clue how it managed to figure that out. I can't remember ever telling it about Goolge calendar.

Hi jubsews! You actually sound far more computer literate than some people I help with computers.

Hmm. I was approached today by someone who wants to set a system up where a defined group of people can post reference-type articles on which the larger populace can comment. Sounds like a job for Movable Type or Blogger, right? Then I hear they want what sounds like tagging--can either of those do that from the inside? Or are you talking an external service--would Technorati or delicious be useful?

Then I hear they want to have 100 content contributors. They're almost in wikiland at that point, but having poked at wiki software makes me leery of suggesting it. It's so big and messy and has a million too many options.

Any suggestions?

The new beta version of Blogger supports tagging, but, beta. Blogger as it stands isn't awesome for comments, either - commenters can't comment on a comment (ie, no Reply).

I've just started to look at WordPress; I think that's what sites like LifeHacker use, and they have multiple content contributors (tho not 100), comments, trackback, tagging, and digg/delicious links.

Right there with you on the wiki software.

When you say "tagging", do you mean by authors or commenters?

(And yes, I'm a wiki lover, but that sounds like a blog job).

Tagging by authors, amych.

It looked a teeny bit like it could bleed into wiki, but everyone would be glad if it didn't--they just don't know that yet.

Oh, authors is much easier -- your mention of technorati had me scared for a moment there. As Raq says, WordPress does it fine. If they're nuts or really want better commenting features, LiveJournal's code can be installed on their own site.