internets: September 2007 Archives

For no reason in particular, I did a Google image search for depression. I want to know why 70% of the photographs represent people looking down with their hands on their faces. When did this become the universal symbol for depression? I never look down with my hands on my face. That's just obnoxious. I'd much rather give people dirty homicidal looks.

I will begin with WebDAV.WebDAV stands for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning. I believe it was originally a concept that would enable the Internet (back in its wee youngin' years) to be altered by everybody who subscribed to it; i.e., you or I could log in and make adjustments to a document or a piece of data. This eventually gave way to magnificent technological breakthroughs such as "FTP," "message boards," "blogs," and "instant messaging." Obviously WebDAV's original intention has been vastly overshadowed by other popular Internet technologies.

However, WebDAV still appears to be popular with calendaring systems. Apple's iCal and  Microsoft's Outlook 2003/2007 are two major calendaring applications, used by individuals and corporations alike. The idea is that a calendar full of events, appointments, and other data can be transferred to a web server with WebDAV enabled. This calendar can then be subscribed to by other users, and those users can make other adjustments to said calendar. I'm not sure exactly how the security works around this, because it seems that theoretically anybody could connect to a calendar and make changes.

Regardless, I've discovered that my awesome web hosters, Apis Networks, allows you to enable a directory on your account for WebDAV services. This means I can, theoretically, upload a calendar from iCal to this directory, and then subscribe to it at work using Outlook 2007 to make changes and other updates. I'm still figuring it all out, and chances are I may just give up and go back to using Google calendar. Either way, I like to learn new things.

Also, it has come to my attention to Wordpress 2.2.3's rich-text editor is quite fucked up. And Tom Waits' "Jersey Girl" is a beautiful song.