CalDAV + Life

Updated June 19, 2006 @ 1:05 am

Are there any free CalDAV services out there? I want to test my new evolution 2.6 out and see if I can get some shared calendar editing between some people. I can’t believe Google Calendar nor 30boxes supports this yet…c’mon! This is really a big missing piece of the groupware puzzle. Looks like the caldav spec is written by an osaf’er. ;)

I’m back in San Francisco after a great month in China. Now I’m in my house which is completely cleared out but with new roommate, post-peace corps Josh XXXXXX. Ladies, he’s up for grabs…

I’m heading to Brazil on Wednesday for a week for Creative Commons/iCommons iSummit. I apologize to all my friends I have not talked with about heading here and connectivity to this occasion.

Speaking at 1st Creative Commons Beijing Salon

Updated June 9, 2006 @ 2:42 am

Hello all, I am one of the speakers at the first Creative Commons Beijing Salon on Sunday in Beijing at Tsinghua University. This is from Chunyan Wang, the project lead for Creative Commons China:

I am now writing to invite you to our first CC China Salon, taking place in Beijing on Sunday, June 11 from 10:30 AM – 1:30 PM at the Thinkers Cafe (It’s just next to the campus of Tsinghua University. here is the detail address: All Sages Bookstore, No. 5 Building of Lan Qi Ying, Cheng Fu Road, Haidian District ) It would be a casual get-together focused on conversation and community-building with 2-3 brief presentations.

I am currently in Shanghai. This city is totally amazing and a nice temperature.

Please tune into Creative Commons Salon in San Francisco next Wed from 6-9 at Shinesf.com

It is going to be amazing.

HOWTO get your email/web/etc where you can’t get access to some connections

Updated June 4, 2006 @ 11:25 am

This is what I’m running from commandline:

ssh -L 1110:mail.rejon.org:110 -L 1143:mail.ctyme.com:143 -L 1125:mail.rejon.org:25 USERNAME@rejon.org

Then, all I do is change the places where normally I would put mail.rejon.org, mail.ctyme.com, etc, and replace the USERNAME and @rejon.org with your own server and hostname (possibly your web hosting provider) with:

localhost:corresponding_new_port

So, mail.rejon.org would become:

localhost:1125

So, this works for securing your email through SSH Tunneling.

Mac users, here is an app you can use to make this point-and-click.

Have fun and remember to use this when traveling abroad in places that won’t let you get your favorite WWW encyclopedia or CC.org email, for example.