Dr Fragen in the operating room

Andy Fragen

  • iCal – Exchange Time Zone Fix – Part 2

    I’ve come across a problem with the original MailExchange2iCal-TZ-fix script. It seems if the .ics invite was only listed as an attachment or in base64 encoding then the script would fail. I’ve subsequently revised the script to handle this and to more gracefully ask into which calendar you want the event imported. I’ve also fixed…

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  • Bill of NON-Rights

    I received this in an email from a friend. It is reproduced here without permission. The following was written by Lewis Napper, a self described amateur philosopher from Mississippi . He ran for a senate seat in 2000. “We the sensible people of the United States, in an attempt to help everyone get along, restore…

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  • WordPress and the iPhone

    So I’m trying out the latest WordPress for iPhone app and it’s pretty cool. What I’ve noticed though, because I use the [Markdown][md] plugin is that the preview shows the marked up content and not the rendered content. It would be great if somehow this could be fixed. [md]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/

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  • Saving Medicare?

    I’ve been getting to the point lately that the system needs to undergo some catastrophic collapse before it will get better. As the [Happy Hospitalist][1] says: > Here’s my position. It’s time to let the cuts stand. Congress should not reverse the 10.6% cuts that began in July 1st 2008. And here’s why: The financial…

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  • MobileMe & OS X Server

    I’m just coming down out of the Jobs RDF. I’m wondering, will there be some OS X Server equivalent to the new .Mac service – MobileMe? I’d love to be able to deploy push email and push calendar to my users.

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  • Text and Quote Wrapping

    If any of you find yourself using webmail you’ll know what I’m talking about. If you’re at all like me, you like to be able to follow the replies in an email thread. Using webmail the quoting and wrapping get screwed up quite easily. I was looking for a simple way to rewrap, unwrap, increase…

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