The what?

A few minutes ago I was sitting on a sofa with nothing to do, thinking, "maybe it's time for my annual blog entry". You may be wondering whether you should bother reading something that's been created simply because I had nothing better to do, but I submit to you that all good things are created that way. Think about it. Anyway, it's mostly about calendars, which sounds boring but it's astonishingly enlightening. There's a bit at the end about the rest of my life, if you're interested.

Anyway, the great synchronisation is the title I've given to the epic drama that has unfolded in my life over the past few days. For years I lived with no form of organisation in my life, as I couldn't come up with an effective calendar system. I'm a modern kind of guy, and find writing with ink on paper to be a real chore. But I'd never found an electronic calendar that I could use with different operating systems and on my phone, all telling me the same thing. Hence the quest for "The Great Synchronisation".

The Task

I own a Nokia E51 running Symbian 60 version 3, and find the built in calendar to be pretty handy. If I wanted to make things easy for myself, I could use Microsoft Outlook and use Nokia's software to synchronise the two calendars. But no: I have to insist on using Mozilla Thunderbird, and for reasons I can't even remember. Perhaps it's because it looks pretty next to my Firefox. So I wanted to sync the two calendars together. But not just that: I wanted to synchronise my calendars with my work calendar, which uses Microsoft Entourage, of all things. Finally, I wanted my future wife (wife as of next Friday!) to be able to view my calendar, and make changes as she sees fit. Hmm, reading that back makes me realise just how crazy that sounds.