Comments on: On the Radar: Web Calendars, Lip-Syncing and Love (oh, my)

By: Ken Walker

Ken Walker — Mon, 22 May 2006 15:19:20 +0000

Sean, thanks for the encouragement. I’ve actually been rethinking our approach to using a calendar for the web, and have written up “some thoughts about it”:http://kennsarah.net/2006/05/22/rethinking-the-tvc-calendar/. Turns out that there are issues with Web Calendar above and beyond the user interface that are a deal-breaker for us.

By: Sean R.

Sean R. — Thu, 18 May 2006 15:16:05 +0000

Ken – Oh, and you’ve done a great job with The Village Church. Inspiring when most church sites are absolutely disgusting.

By: Sean R.

Sean R. — Thu, 18 May 2006 15:10:39 +0000

Kenn – Any tips on making WebCalendar pretty?

I’ve considered using it, but it’s the ugliest web application I’ve ever seen.

I believe we will have a nice selection of web calendars by the end of 2006. The year of the web calendar.

By: bro

bro — Mon, 08 May 2006 22:03:05 +0000

Holy crap those religious maps are the coolest thing ever. Check out the unitarian one and my county is the little black spot in a sea of grey wash.

The coffee shop article hit home-we just got our first real Starbucks in my little city, if Barnes and Noble doesn’t count… I can’t bring myself to ditch the really high-quality coffee shops we already have here.

By: Ken Walker

Ken Walker — Sat, 06 May 2006 19:06:49 +0000

We’ve got the full-height cubes–though I think the walls were taller back when I was at D&B. They’re nice: all aluminum and hi-tech looking, with 19″ wall-mounted flat panels on adjustable arms. They’ve even got coat lockers, which I haven’t seen before, glass shelves, and whiteboards.

I actually like my space, but the location could be better: I’m on a corner, with my back facing the main entrance to our office. Everybody can see what I am (or what I’m not) working on. It’s a high-interrupt kind of space.

As for color schemes, “blue, white and red”:http://www.citigroup.com/citigroup/homepage/ is kind of lame. I miss the “blue, grey and gold”:http://dnb.com/us/. D&B owned gold.

By: alissa

alissa — Sat, 06 May 2006 16:02:51 +0000

We have half-height cubicles (partially to avoid the gopher syndrome and partially because, as you know, banks are neurotic about being able to hear everything going on to avoid insider trading, money laundering, and possibly drug rings?) – and I don’t mind them too much. I share mine, but it’s HUGE, and it’s much more space than I had on the trading floor back at 9 West. Plus, it lets the light in, and there’s still room to put pretty postcards of friends’ art exhibits and coffeeshops, so that all the world can know that I’m not a plain vanilla corporate soul (actually, in BofA’s case, that would be red-and-white).

Speaking of, after going to RPI for four years and chafing over the red and white there, how did I end up at a company that uses the EXACT same colors for everything? You can’t tell my BofA staff shirts from my RPI staff shirts. Ha!