Birthday's and other events
Aug. 9th, 2007 10:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lilfluffOne of the nifty things I've started playing with is a program called pcal. It takes a text file listing events and spits out by default a postscript file with a calendar of the current month. But the interesting thing is the flexibility of the event listing.
For instance here are simple entries:
All odd Fridays Payday!
All Thursdays T.H.E.M.
And here are some more interesting examples:
Weekday on_or_after Apr 15 Taxes Due!
Tue after first Mon in Nov Election today
And let's say THEM decides the third meeting of each month will be replaced by DDR night? That's simple enough to handle:
delete third Thursday in all T.H.E.M.
third Thursday in all Dance Dance Revolution Night
So it looks like I might actually start having and using a calendar. Which means I ought to put things on it. Sure I've got a few weekly and monthly meetings already in my calendar file, and it comes with a holiday file and moon phases files, but I'm sure there are things I ought to have in it.
So if there are any dates you think I should track just hit reply. Birthdays, upcoming events (I think I might start a calendar file for book release dates), anniversaries of important events, or anything of interest.
For instance here are simple entries:
All odd Fridays Payday!
All Thursdays T.H.E.M.
And here are some more interesting examples:
Weekday on_or_after Apr 15 Taxes Due!
Tue after first Mon in Nov Election today
And let's say THEM decides the third meeting of each month will be replaced by DDR night? That's simple enough to handle:
delete third Thursday in all T.H.E.M.
third Thursday in all Dance Dance Revolution Night
So it looks like I might actually start having and using a calendar. Which means I ought to put things on it. Sure I've got a few weekly and monthly meetings already in my calendar file, and it comes with a holiday file and moon phases files, but I'm sure there are things I ought to have in it.
So if there are any dates you think I should track just hit reply. Birthdays, upcoming events (I think I might start a calendar file for book release dates), anniversaries of important events, or anything of interest.
