Does anyone here know anything about Google Calendar? Specifically, how to invite other users to a shared calendar and how to get it to send me email reminders for my events? Because my boss seems to think I have this all figured out and can teach the rest of the department, but all I've figured out so far is how to add events to my personal calendar and the departmental calendar. I'm trying the Help Center, of course, but somehow it's not helping. Like, I'm adding a new person, but her name/email doesn't show on the list after I click "Add Person." And I've told it to send me email reminders of meetings, but I never get any.

Go into Google Calendar, add a new calendar (assuming you don't want to share your own calendar) then select "share with everyone" or "share with specific person" and add people.

I haven't actually used it myself - I just played around and found this.

So I came into work this morning. Turned on my computer. My computer booted into Windows, and then went "CRRRONK." That was the exact noise.

Three and a half hours later, I have a new computer. And internet access again, thankfully.

Susan, I created a private calendar and added you (using your gmail address). If you go to your calendars, can you see it?

eta: I also set you up to be able to make changes.

Thanks. It looks like the problem was that one of the people didn't have a Google account yet, so it left her blank until I'd finished the process.

I have to say, IMHO Calendar isn't up to Google's normal intuitive and user-friendly standards. But my boss wants us all to use it, so...

Grr. I'm not feeling good about my job today. Really, I'm not feeling good about ME today.

Susan, I created a private calendar and added you (using your gmail address). If you go to your calendars, can you see it?

Yes, I can. Cool. Which reminded me that I can access a calendar from my gmail address, allowing me to have a personal-personal calendar and a work-personal calendar.

Thanks! I'm feeling better. Still a bit cranky, but better.

Remember the woman who raced her minivan to try to beat the freight train?

Ugh. That still makes my stomach churn and chops my heart into little bits.

To offset it a bit, here's a much more amazing and hopeful story from the same paper.

Google Calendar and Documents are still a bit clonky, IMHO, but I like the potential. I hope they smooth out the process.

Happy Birthday, Trudy. May it be a good one.

That's a very charming story, JZ.

Me, I have a hate-on for ERs right now because I have the same headache that made me leave work early yesterday and seek painkillers stronger than the ones I had at home. It was a waste of my time and an even bigger one of Polgara's. The only possibly good outcomes involve me remembering to record the number of the taxi company and me remembering in the heat of the non-moment to email my GP and get more explicit ER protocol instructions down in my file.

For the actual pain, I got no ideas and just want to go back home.

Instead, I reconcile databases.

Google Calendar and Documents are still a bit clonky, IMHO, but I like the potential. I hope they smooth out the process.

I love Google Documents, probably because I've been using it longer and am more used to the clunkiness. DH and I use it for things like grocery lists, and I even use it to back up my manuscripts--I just cut and paste the whole thing into a document file.