Cracking a nut with a sledgehammer

Last night, I decided to get some sort of order into my life and installed Mozilla Sunbird to arrange stuff like my Centrelink payments (yes, I’m on Centrelink. I don’t aim to be on it for long, so don’t worry all you taxpayers out there), hockey and dart games and so on. Then I discovered you can add other calendars by importing iCalendar files (.ICS files) into Sunbird, so after tracking down stuff for Euro 2008, the V8s and the A-League, I then tried to find a NRL calendar.

I remembered I had downloaded a hefty package from e-Diary for the NRL season in Outlook format. Now, I don’t have Outlook installed, so I decided to attempt converting that into either iCal or to a CSV file and import from there. Well…that was easier said then done.

After doing several Google searches, downloaded a few programs, couldn’t get them to install and so on, I was at my wits end! I was about to send an email to e-Diary to convince them to do a ICS version of the calendar, when they had it up on their website! A few forms and a email message later and there it is!

And the lesson here is? Your solution often is in places you forgot to look!

Now I can keep track of the footy and V8s as well my hockey, darts and Centrelink stuff through devices like my iPod (simply by copying the ICS file to the iPod). Now to find a way to put it on my mobile…