another sam chan: the student blogger

So you’ve probably noticed that I’ve disappeared for the most of this month (or you haven’t, but then you probably wouldn’t be reading this). This month started off with a barrage of finals, including a period where I didn’t sleep for four days. If you bothered to hunt me down on twitter, it was that period that I was there both day and night. And then after that, I went and has laser eye surgury done so I was told to stay away from anything with light rays. I lasted about 4 hours before I turned on the TV. Regardless, I am still recovering slowly right now but I just had to drop by and wish everybody a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. This will most likely be my last post this year so I just want to thank everybody that’s dropped by here and I promise not to disappear like this again anytime soon! I have a few things up my sleeve in the upcoming year so it should be interesting.

I also have a little treat for all you viewers with a special Christmas edition video blog: The One with Zero. The story goes that this year for Secret Santa with Elfster, my friends and I decided we would have to create something along with getting a present. I’ve decided to embarrass myself share it with my faithful readers here as well so enjoy and have a safe, warm, and cozy holiday!

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As many of you have probably already noticed, I’m a big fan of both Apple and Google and often wish they synced better with each other. iCal has always been a great proprietary program for the Apple’s OSX, especially for a disorganized student like me. However, due to its lack of a sync with Google Calendar, I have never bothered to use it. As for Google Calendar, while its ability to share and send to anybody and any computer is wonderful, it lacks some very simple tools which would have made it much more convenient. You could even say the lack of collaboration has resulted in all the late papers I’ve had the last four years.

Well, I should be late no more (or have one less excuse), because Google has finally put up a syncing program called Calaboration. In my opinion, this is even more exciting than the Gmail themes. There have been third party paid apps such as Spanning Sync in the past, but this one is directly from Google and free to use. It’s as easy as it gets, just follow the link, open up the zip file, sign in with your Google account, and sync away. If you’re not a gmail user or don’t own a mac (gasp), you could try Remember the Milk, which is a great time management site that is completely online. For small tasks, I recommend a small program called MiniTask. MiniTask requires Adobe Air, but it’s a neat little checklist that could give you some extra satisfaction out of finishing your papers or projects. Speaking of projects, time to book it. Good luck for everybody on their exams, papers, and finger paint projects.

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