Thursday, July 05 2001

Syncal

"reads a current ical calendar file, an archived ical calendar file from the last time syncal was run, and a Palm device DateBook database and reconciles them. It creates a new ical calendar file which replaces both the current and archived ones and updates the Pilot DateBookDB to coincide with them."

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I guess it happens all the time

but it never occurred to me that cats would use car tires as scratching posts. Then again, it also never occurred to me to think that Bernhard Goetz would run for mayor of New York City, cuddling a squirrel. Meanwhile, what is it about subways that makes New Yorkers so crazy?

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is penury

| source : web1913 | Penury \Pen"u*ry\, n. [L. penuria; cf. Gr. ? hunger, ? poverty, need, ? one who works for his daily bread, a poor man, ? to work for one's daily bread, to be poor: cf. F. p['e]nurie.] 1. Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution. ``A penury of military forces.'' --Bacon. They were exposed to hardship and penury. --Sprat. It arises in neither from penury of thought. --Landor. 2. Penuriousness; miserliness. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor. | source : wn | penury n : a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless" [syn: {indigence}, {need}, {pauperism}]

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